Are depressed people more realistic?

[Angrboda]

Perhaps it's better to be deluded and wrong if it's all going to amount to the same in the end.

I don't know. If I didn't find what seems to me to be a solution to the problem of evil, I don't know what I would do with belief in value, praise, free-will, human rights, justice and perpetual identity.

Truth maybe scary and terrifying, in the sense, not much humans can handle it. Still like a courageous idiot, I'm seeking it instead of living life according to what is pragmatic.

The problem with this, for me, imo, is that you've already decided that truth has a specific shape, and taste, and smell, and color. So when you go seeking truth, you aren't so much seeking truth as you are seeking confirmation. And there's a difference.

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(This point is debated at great length in the literature, from FallenToReason's recently quoted essay of William James, to Popper's critical rationalism, to Feyerabend, to Kuhn,
to Foucault, to Derrida, to Nietzsche. It may be impossible to step outside our own biases, hunches, intuitions, and beliefs. But I don't think it's necessary to be a slave to them, either.)

Anyway. Just my two cents worth. Shalom.


The ancient masters were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive.
The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable.
Because it is unfathomable,
All we can do is describe their appearance.
Watchful, like men crossing a winter stream.
Alert, like men aware of danger.
Courteous, like visiting guests.
Yielding like ice about to melt.
Simple, like uncarved blocks of wood.
Hollow, like caves.
Opaque, like muddy pools.
Who can wait quietly while the mud settles?
Who can remain still until the moment of action?
Observers of the Tao do not seek fulfillment.
Not seeking fulfillment, they are not swayed by desire for change.

— Tao Te Ching, Ch. 15