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Thesaures: The emotion pinpointer.
Newspapers: the modern-day tumbleweed.
Proof of consciousness: boredom
Proof that their is no after-life (ie. heaven and hell are here right now): (from Sin City) the hell i send him to will seem like heaven after what i've done to him.
How much of our knowledge is worth sharing? True, we might have a million little truths but people only have interest in maybe a hundred of them.
I feel as if there are possibly too many truths that can all be valid for a given situation. I fear the use of the wrong quote will somehow de-lighten the situation instead of enlightening it. How can one sum up all truths into a grand harmony of truth? A sort of founding father of truth that governs a whole tree of branches (different rivers to the same ocean). What does the TRUNK of the tree say?!?! What is the "fundamental knowledge" that every other truth stems from?
"This poem will never reach its' destination." Voltaire
His words should never be fully understood by any one person or else it would make his truth a concrete meaning and not an abstract experiment of thought. "The truth no longer remains interesting once the veils are withdrawn." nietzsche. Once people become satisfied they almost instinctually want more because "proof of power is excess of power." How can we become infinitely interested once we have already 'figured out' a given situation? After we know A we almost always need a B in order to be truly happy. "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happenned." Dr. Suess.
A: Why pursue truth when it must be, by neccesity, half fact and half opinion?
B: Because their must be a natural order to the world and with every new piece of information we come closer and closer to the pattern of that order. Look at music and mathematics.
A: Math is 2+2=4. Not "why is 2+2=4". Logic only works with quantites, never qualities which is the second half of truth--opinions.
B: How can we get to know the qualities without first knowing the math behind the ideas first? We can't enjoy a qualitative meal without first measuring the quantities with which we CAN make the qualities. We can't cook without the right cooking time and materials.
A: True, but the kind of truth I am talking about has little to do with the cook or mathematicains' riff-raff; I am more concerned with human behavior- the philosophy of psychology where NOTHING can or should be proven right or wrong or else we wouldn't have a right or wrong to judge them against....
I only question philosophy so much because if there IS a natural order to the world than skepticism would be the most affirmative approach to everything; it wouldn't be pessimistic like most nihilists like to tell themselves. "If we affirm one instant, we affirm all of existance." NIETZSCHE
Newspapers: the modern-day tumbleweed.
Proof of consciousness: boredom
Proof that their is no after-life (ie. heaven and hell are here right now): (from Sin City) the hell i send him to will seem like heaven after what i've done to him.
How much of our knowledge is worth sharing? True, we might have a million little truths but people only have interest in maybe a hundred of them.
I feel as if there are possibly too many truths that can all be valid for a given situation. I fear the use of the wrong quote will somehow de-lighten the situation instead of enlightening it. How can one sum up all truths into a grand harmony of truth? A sort of founding father of truth that governs a whole tree of branches (different rivers to the same ocean). What does the TRUNK of the tree say?!?! What is the "fundamental knowledge" that every other truth stems from?
"This poem will never reach its' destination." Voltaire
His words should never be fully understood by any one person or else it would make his truth a concrete meaning and not an abstract experiment of thought. "The truth no longer remains interesting once the veils are withdrawn." nietzsche. Once people become satisfied they almost instinctually want more because "proof of power is excess of power." How can we become infinitely interested once we have already 'figured out' a given situation? After we know A we almost always need a B in order to be truly happy. "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happenned." Dr. Suess.
A: Why pursue truth when it must be, by neccesity, half fact and half opinion?
B: Because their must be a natural order to the world and with every new piece of information we come closer and closer to the pattern of that order. Look at music and mathematics.
A: Math is 2+2=4. Not "why is 2+2=4". Logic only works with quantites, never qualities which is the second half of truth--opinions.
B: How can we get to know the qualities without first knowing the math behind the ideas first? We can't enjoy a qualitative meal without first measuring the quantities with which we CAN make the qualities. We can't cook without the right cooking time and materials.
A: True, but the kind of truth I am talking about has little to do with the cook or mathematicains' riff-raff; I am more concerned with human behavior- the philosophy of psychology where NOTHING can or should be proven right or wrong or else we wouldn't have a right or wrong to judge them against....
I only question philosophy so much because if there IS a natural order to the world than skepticism would be the most affirmative approach to everything; it wouldn't be pessimistic like most nihilists like to tell themselves. "If we affirm one instant, we affirm all of existance." NIETZSCHE