Topic: truth
oneofthekingsmen's photo
Sun 12/20/20 06:39 AM
Whole else can see it?

delightfulillusion's photo
Sun 12/20/20 06:49 AM
Give me a clue......what does it look like?

TxsGal3333's photo
Sun 12/20/20 06:58 AM
Humm see what????


Steven's photo
Sun 12/20/20 08:17 PM
Truth is the identification of Identity. When the mind sees what is, not what it wants to see.

Of course, postmodern academe has a problem with that. They utter self-refuting, contradictory statements like "The are no absolutes," (an absolute); "there is no truth," (so that's a lie, right?); "there's no black & white, only gray" (a black & white staement); etc.

Statements that deny facts are self-contradictory, false on their face.

"Truth is unknowable." {So how do you know that?
"Objectivity is impossible." {Ditto
"We cannot know anything." {Ditto
"I cannot be sure I know anything." {One must be certain of something in order to doubt anything. "I don't know if that traffic light ahead is red or green (but I'm certain there is a traffic light ahead.)
"This sentence is false." {Meaningless, as it refers to nothing *in reality,* no fact, but only to itself.

Here's one more complex by a god of the postmoderns, Howard Zinn: “Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way...then it requires that you make your selection on the basis of what you think will advance causes of humanity."

IOW, knowing the facts won't promote the "causes of humanity" (whatever the Hell such causes are. Likely, those causes mean mobs crushing the individual human being.

But Zinn wasn't the first to make such a statement: "There is no such thing as truth, either scientific or moral." Adolf Hitler (Munich; 1939)

You see, when you get folks to believe in an elastic truth, in a reality of imagining, you can herd mankind into a mob of selfless, souless thugs and, in the name of humanity, riot, destroy, kill.

This generation, indeed, the Boomers & the Xers also, deserve the future they are going to see.

However, if you are one of those rare individuals who actually thinks for himself, you may wish to explore the woman's philosophy: "My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." - Ayn Rand

And for those simpering souls who pleadingly ask, "What is the meaning of life?" " … joy, exaltation, beauty, greatness, heroism, all the supreme, uplifting values of man's existence on earth, are the meaning of life--not the pain or ugliness he may encounter ... one must live for the sake of such exalted moments as one may be able to achieve or experience ... happiness matters ... the essence of life is the achievement of joy, not the escape from pain." - Ayn Rand

>http://aynrandlexicon.com/
>https://aynrand.org/

Just remember one thing: "The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts." - Frederic Bastiat