I've repeatedly noticed in many subjects, that the more someone talks about "the truth" the more likely it is to be bullshit.
Presumably because people who are inclined to have an accurate understanding are more likely to talk about opinions and evidence, and not expect to be convincing just labeling their words "the truth".
Whereas people who constantly use the word truth are more likely to be people who have adopted some particular belief and elevated it to be beyond question, and so speak in very absolute terms.
Jess I feel your assesment is a little unfair and mean.
Truth is an understanding which appears in all philosophy. When Socrates speaks of truth he isnt self righteous, he's referring to something that is the aim of philosophy.
What are your guys favorite philosopher? You do understand philosophy has no scientific evidence, right? Its based on feeling and experience, what is known as knowledge, wisdom.
People who have an acurate understanding of things rely on oppinions? Thats not a very wise things.
You should rely on facts, the truth. I am not talking about anything crazy.
We are gonna die--thats a truth. Its philosophically correct. Even if you say, but do our spirits die? Thats a whole other question, but your body here actually drops dead and you die. Thats a fact. So being a fact it is a true statement to say we are going to die.
Its very simple... I understand I am not a great communicator of ideas, but they come from the heart and I only say them cause its what I have seen
I've seen and felt things thay are divine. im not trying to fool anyone, ive seen the beauty of the circle of life, of the divine nature of reality, and it took me a lot of years of learning to do so. I'
Then again its always sad because I could be talking to a meth or heroin addict who sleeps in a car and jacks off all day to weird porn and smoked and drinks and doesnt call his mom...
And I live a divine life. I do the right thing and I love people. I give everyone the gift of my smile and the openness of my heart. I work, go home and read literature. I take psychedelics and see something that looks a lot like heaven, its hard but it is very rewarding and you learn a lot.
Ive noticed that on forums the oppinion on life of a person who lives a good life and the oppinion on life of a person who lives a bad life are treated as equal when in real life they arent.
You Jess are the mod of a drug site and take hard drugs, and dracula acid is a troll who writes short insulting sentences on a drug forum a lot and also takes hard drugs.
it isnt really fair in that sense to talk about virtue or the how purity of the heart can unite one to God, because I am talking about virtue to someone who is a drug addict or sex addict or a bad person, and obviously they wont know virtue.
Im not saying you are bad people, but you see the point? You could be, and yet our oppinions would weight the same?
In real life it isnt like that. People would evidently see that our lives and personalities play a great deal into what our level of understanding would be.