Friends! Are we always right? Although it would be more accurate to ask. And not even to ask, but to express the conviction that we are never right. We cannot be absolutely and irrevocably right about everything.
Why?
It’s very simple. Absolute truth is like a mountain. Unshakable, unbreakable. This is canon, nothing can be done about it. You won’t move it, you won’t destroy it. And there is the sun. It rotates around this mountain, thereby illuminating it from different sides. Standing against the sun, we can claim to see the dark side of the mountain. When the sun shines at our backs, we only see the bright side. But if we want, we can see the dark side of the mountain by moving beyond it from the sunlight. And vice versa – to come out of the darkness into the light.
Relativity, dear friends! It is, after all, the stronghold of all human inferences. Saying that 2+2 = 4, some argue that 4 is the sum of two terms – 2 and 2. Or 1 and 3. It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not.
No need to say that the truth does not exist. Yes it exists. Only with different polarity. This polarity is our views on this truth. You cannot be sure that you will be right if you adhere to this particular theory. You need to be sure that others will find thousands more ways to refute your statements without leaving the point.
The truth has several sides, several facets. The most important skill is to find all these edges. And the edges of these edges.
P.S. This text is also in my Pommicasino.co.uk LiveJournal
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Everyone has their own truth. Although the absolute exists, we are not machines, so that each of us thinks exactly as this truth says. Although there are also things that simply do not have absolute truth. Let’s say I can say that Heavy Rain is a masterpiece (a primitive example, it’s easier). This is my truth and the truth of those who think the same. And there are other people who think that this is ug. This is their truth. What is the absolute value, how can you find it out?? She’s not there. Another example: a person stole something from someone. The absolute truth here is that he stole. However, someone will think this way, and someone will have their own truth – he did not steal. IMHO, the truth is a very abstract phenomenon.
Plus to the author for food for thought.
hmm, I don’t know how relevant this will be
This probably means that everything in the world is relative, and everyone defends their opinion, and everyone can be the truth, but without being able to agree with each other, people would turn this world into chaos… they would (and maybe did) come to a dead end, as at the end of this short film.
well, if it’s offtopic, sorry