Regardless of reality, (page 2)

VoidEater

John: So, you believe that acting consistently with what you believe is more important than knowing truth?

Yes, consistent behavior is more important than knowing truth. But you may be starting to point to another question altogether: everyone accepting/believing the same truth, which is different than there being an actual truth.

After 50 years of "searching for truth", I've come to realize that "truth" is often subjective and individualistic, that every perception is a kind of reality (what Watts calls the billion eyes of God), and is based on nothing more than the choice to believe.

It's not particularly important to me to know "truth", merely to be satisfied with my chosen beliefs. When more information comes along, my beliefs change, and I have a new truth.

Doom: Why would you believe something that you know to be non-truth? (Unless you're a Witness.)

Because it engenders a sense of stability.

jaguarbass

if you could pick one faith/world view/philosophy to be 100% true, what would it be and why? To answer your question, my feelings today which are subject to change based on incoming data are. Last night at work I read the book of Ecclesiastes twice. Ecclesiastes says life has no meaning or purpose, everything is vanity. I think that is 100% true. One can try to give life meaning and purpose and for a season they might be euphoric and not realize that the reality is, nothing has meaning or purpose. In the end we all die and we dont know what, where or if anything happens after that. Even Ecclesiastes holds that view. So I guess my view or philosophy would be biblical at least Ecclesiastes seems true to me today. The bible says lots of other things that contradict the book of Ecclesiastes, Which goes along with my view that the world and life is a clusterfluck. The world is a ball of confusion and Caos. I also realize I suffer from depression and have to talk to the doctor about going on some medication, paxil or something. I hope someone offers a better view/ philosophy than I. And that I can embrace it.

Twitch

mine

because it is

lol

Satanus

I think a totally psychedelic universe would be cool. As well as clouds filling the sky, there would be light rays split into their various frequencies semitransparently filling the air. Let's say that we could change our size to live at different levels and harmlessly pass through matter. Let's say that you wanted to spent some time inside a flower, watching the comings and goings of different bugs and pollen and stuff. Let's say that the animals and bugs stopped eating each other and could talk/communicate. Let's say that you wanted to expand yourself and take a flying trip to explore the magnetic waves of the universe, or the nebulas. Lets say that you could speed up, slow down, or stop time for your perspective. Maybe, for my next incarnation, i'll dial in a universe something like that;)

S

No drugs, stimulants, or sedatives of any kind were used for the composition of the above.

VoidEater

My dog Sam eats purple flowers...that's a truth I can believe in.

Narkissos

I guess any philosophy that wouldn't claim to, or aim at changing the world, or people, or gods, would be fine to me now. If I had to pick just one that might be Tao -- but I don't have to, do I?

Satanus

Cool dog, sam...

S

cognizant dissident

The only immutable truth in life is that there isn't one. Well, maybe death and taxes.

Life is impermanent and uncertain. The search for a philosophy that is 100% true is mankind's desperate attempt to find a panacea for this unpleasant truth. The poster who said "consistency" is more important than truth was illustrating this need for certaintly perfectly.

Life is subjective. Perception is subjective. Therefore, "truth" is subjective since we can only arrive at truth by our subjective perceptions of our own life experience.

We do so like to have it validated by others though!

That's my philosophy in a nutshell. (heavily influenced by Buddhism)

DoomVoyager

So I guess my view or philosophy would be biblical at least Ecclesiastes seems true to me today.

Actually, the philosophy that life has no meaning other than death is called nihilism.

John Doe

Cognizant, do you feel that a search for truth is futile and not a worthy cause, since truth is "subjective?"

Regardless of reality,

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