RE: Thoughts about the importance of truth
One problem with truth is that you must fundamentally trust someone or something outside of yourself, that the thing being presented as truth actually is the truth. And that goes without considering the possibility that our minds may distort the facts and we really have no way of absolutely knowing how deep our self-deception goes (if one's mind is powerful enough one could presumably hallucinate a whole lifetime).
So, it seems that life is not without faith at some level. Without trust in oneself or others the experience of living would certainly be one of alienation, if not downright hell. Yet, some brave, if not insane, souls choose to question everything, even their own existence and, moreover, some among them claim that it's the only way to know the real truth.
We need a good criteria so we can choose correctly who to trust. And that good criteria can only be developed by feeding our minds with information and trying to analyse it in the most objective way possible.
Questioning our existence can be too much, but questioning the nature of our reality (this sounded like Westworld :P) is always a nice intellectual exercise.
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I agree. Even though we can't really ever be 100% certain that we've made the right choice to trust certain sources, our reasoning and observational skills, when put to use, increase the probability of internalizing and adapting to actual facts, many-fold.
Thinking for ourselves is paramount to arriving at a reasonable estimate of all the facts.
Hahaha. Yes, questioning our existence is like trying to visualize infinity, times a million! It's something that I feel our brains aren't adequately equipped to do, at least not us "normal" (non-genius) people.
Agreed on the questioning the nature of reality, too. We have this type of questioning to thank for essentially all of our scientific advancements over the course of human history.
Well, the only truth that is truth is the one within us, not the one we perceive in the outer world. It’s more important to look within. I mean truly
I wonder if real truth exists. Absolute truth is more like an infinite nothing. We are not even meant to know it in the first place
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Yeah, I see it as levels of truth:
1.) the "relative truth" of relationships between things that appear to exist, but are based on the fundamental assumption that the objective world is real.
2.) the "intimate truth" of direct experience, based on the fact that something exists, namely myself, proven by my being aware.
3.) the "absolute truth" that stands alone after removing all erroneous assumptions/ conclusions/ abstractions. Whether it's observable or can be known by a human or any other "entity", I don't know. I don't even know if it exists.
Many supposed (spiritually) enlightened people have claimed that there is a (absolute) truth that stands alone and that it can't be known, words can't describe it, but it can be lived.
Well cemented!
Totally love this :)