#39

It is literally impossible to know or to tell, isn’t it :slight_smile:

So I can act as this means my experiences are entirely arbitrary or that the consistency they have is indicative of an objective truth beyond my self. Obviously the whole thing can be a construct entirely of my own making, who is to tell?

However, my experiences have shown me that treating reality as a construct has severe negative effects on my ability to function. I’m not talking about doing random things because I don’t think consequences are real, but rather, mentally untethering myself from my sensory inputs causes me problems. Even if objective truth is not a thing, that would still hold true and I like to try and enjoy my experiences rather than be damaged by them.

Honestly I’m a fence sitter but literally the only person benefited or disadvantaged by me choosing to believe or not in objective truth is me. I’ve spent too long in my life pondering unknowables and I’m going to regret some of that time on my death bed, so I’m going to do what makes me happy.

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#40

In retrospect I should have realised a relationship was doomed when we started arguing about of Bush did 9/11 and her argument became one about the nature of truth and how, because I couldn’t know for sure he didn’t that means he did.

#41

I don’t understand the question sorry

#42

scientists hate this sort of question tbf

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#43

George Berkeley says there is no fence on which to sit.

#44

Flashing back to when someone in my undergrad started to explain Hegel to the philosophy lecturer, who was of course a woman

#45

all philosophers need to do regular hegel exercises

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#46

in this scenario am I the woman or the student or both

#47

also fuck hegel tbh, fuck philosophy really

#48

You are the ambient source of existential dread, Mr. Smoking Skeleton

#49

Go read some Rawls m8, pierce the veil of ignorance

#50

objective truth is out there some where maaaaaaaan

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#51

I mean, she’s a very good actress but I think she needs to break out of the romcom scene.

#52

Have I stumbled into a thread as written by RZA of the Wu Tang Clan?

#53

Needs more kung fu imo

#54

I’d have to say:

  1. The world is everything that is the case.
    1.1 The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
    1.11 The world is determined by the facts, and by these being all the
    facts.
    1.12 For the totality of facts determines both what is the case, and
    also all that is not the case.
    1.13 The facts in logical space are the world.
    1.2 The world divides into facts.
    1.21 Any one can either be the case or not be the case, and everything
    else remain the same.

I have six more points but I’ll leave it there for now.

#55

Really do love cypress hill’s commitment to making whole records about weed.

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#56

Imagine if you believed in objective truth and one day god appeared and went. “You’ve been punked, Ashton Kutcher is my son and you’ve made it to the next level” then everything is slightly different but it in way that isn’t noticeable but you know and it drives you insane.

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#57

#58

such a lazy song too. song literally goes no where - just the same 3 second loop repeated for under 2 minutes. beautiful.

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