Food for thought. Or maybe food for nothing.
Believing implies that the nature of things is a decision. There is no recognition of what is, or that anything is, when one “believes”.
Now, I may see a tree, and believe I don’t. I may believe I am intelligent when I am stupid. I may believe in dreams, when dreams are an illusion. I may believe in gravity, when gravity is without me. I may believe just about anything I want, when those things are not real, definable, or apparent.
Seeing the truth is a state of recognition, not belief. Seeing what is, is a rare ability, to be debunked by the believers.
Truth exists. Within you and without you.
what about right and wrong? is there a fixed truth to everything that is right and everything that is wrong? if you say yes, i have a list of issues i would like resolved with nothing less than the truth.
First, read this entire web site.
Then, if you still don’t know what right and wrong are, get back to me.
ok, i have a question. what about skirting the truth (when the truth in this case is an opinion, like “do you think i’m fat”) in order to spare someone’s feelings? do you have a hard and fast rule for this? what about more extreme examples like “where are the jews hiding?” is there a fixed truth that can serve as a guideline for what is right and what is wrong?
i guess what i’m saying is how can i turn truth into a philosophy?
Truth in the context of personal truths, or truthful opinions, are dictated by whim, or values, again, so really you can’t apply the truth is a rock, now you see it, now you don’t scenario to this quandary.
Comes down to your own loyalty to yourself and to personal honesty.
Compromising one’s opinion to spare another pain is certainly not a major transgression, though philosophically impure for those of us who consider honesty paramount.
Truth can’t be turned into a philosophy.
Do what you want.