RE: Truth.. and what you know
June 8, 2014 at 3:15 am
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2014 at 3:23 am by ska88.)
(June 8, 2014 at 2:19 am)Alice Wrote: Nothing is true... everything is permitted.
The truth lies around with all the crazies... we sane people know to steer clear of it.
Its like you are implying for something specific.
You know what.. I even can't say if someone is sane or crazy?!
Does thinking differently makes someone crazy?! And thinking like me makes someone sane .. like me?!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts

(June 8, 2014 at 2:52 am)bennyboy Wrote: You can have truth, but you can only know whether your ideas are true in a given context.
In the context of eating an apple, it is true that I am enjoying it. Whether the apple and I "really" exist, or whether I'm just an illusion, or a figment of the Mind of God, or a character in the Matrix, is not knowable. That transcendent context is not accessible to us. But eating an apple will always just be eating an apple. And that's truth.
The problem comes when people have ideas that they think represent a truth of a level that is inaccessible to humans-- for example, if they claim to know why the universe exists rather than not existing. That is delusion, and possibly pride as well.
exactly

While I was I student we studied logic.. and one rule was saying that.. to prove that something is wrong, ONLY one mistake is enough. But to prove that something is right you have to test it on infinit options... thats tough!
You know when I was a kid I thought I'm the only real human in the world and the rest are no more than actors or supernatural creatures


