Truth.. Truism.. True..
I've been thinking about these things a lot as of late. I don't want to give you the impression that I'm perpetually sitting around meditating in deep thought - mind you. But I keep coming back to the concept of True.
Concept? Yes. I think it is. In fact, I'll take it a step further. Truth and purveyors of truisms are all part of a cult. The Cult of True.
In the Cult of True, the members become dogmatic and vested in their truth. Propagating their truth becomes a ritual. They simply must, I repeat absolutely must, make you understand their truth and why you are either in or outside it's bounds.
We see the cult members all over society in every shape, color, creed, and socio-economic group. Liberals have their truth. Conservatives have one too. Goreans have a truth just as Doms / subs.
Just because you have a personal truth, it doesn't mean its universal. The cultist prance around with their one right way and try to indoctrinate others. Their confidence in their own life choices and their own truth hangs on knowing their truth is superior to your truth.
Personally.. I think they need some kool-aid.
I'm sick to death of the cult. Moreover, I'm sick of the anti-cultists who really practice their own cult worship. The anti-cultists are just as invested in being the opposite of the cultists. It's really fucking pathetic.
How many times have you seen someone (a.k.a. a cult of truth member) get on a thread and preach about the one right way to do whatever it is that the thread was about?!? And then.. within a few posts, a group of anti-cultists start in and preach their own anti-cult of true philosophy (of which they are just as dogmatic).
Can you be confident in your own truth without feeling the need to force it down the throats of everyone else? When someone's forcing you to ingest their truth, is the ONLY possible response an anti-cultist chant? Can you not simply not swallow?????
This is the one and only time I think not swallowing is totally appropriate.
I know my truth. I know how my truth impacts my life, my decisions and my values. I do not, in any way, expect or require you to share my truths.
Don't expect that of me either. You won't get an anti-cultists response from me.
Although, I should warn you, if you try to force your junk in my mouth, I might bite.
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That's an interesting concept, that there are no objective truths.
Interestingly physics would seem to allow for at least the possibility of this.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fine-structure_constant#Is_the_fine_structure_constant_actually_constant.3F
I must say I find the idea so hope inspiring as to reject it out of hand on "too good to be true" grounds, which in this context is particularly ironic.
Living in a universe truly without limits at least opens the door for some staggeringly wonderful things.
But for all practical purposes I have to believe in an objective testable truth, at least to the degree required for technology since it's existence would seem prima fascia evidence of at least some degree of cohesion and predictability.
But what if our expectation that technology should work is what allows it to? Hard to experiment when there's no control group, if you assume these changes can only be made at the scale of humanity as a whole.
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