The deepest truths are simple. They exist right in our front and staring us on the face. But we have been conditioned by our present society in such a manner that we don’t believe these truths. Similarly, the solutions to most problems that mankind faces today are such simple that they become visible right in front of us, but we have been so conditioned to judge them as too problematic that we prefer not to focus on them.
The basic truth about truth is that nobody can escape from truth. The only question is: how long can man remain elusive? Shri Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, taught in 500 BC: “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truths.” Now the long neglect of truth in modern history, by continuously courting the false ‘truth’(rational truth), has come recoiling in the forms of avalanches of catastrophes, modern man finds himself caught between the proverbial ‘devil and deep sea’.
Another basic truth about truth is that we cannot find truth when we are thinking over it or trying to decode it by the help of pure logics--modern science. Our final description of it as ‘relative’ too seems to be highly premature as it often leads us to conclude that truth is too elusive to be so scientifically chased. The truth is that truth cannot itself be trapped in words. Nowadays truth is seen by scientists simply as a concept representing factuality or else the validity of a theory. But this is far from being the whole truth of the matter. What has been regarded through the ages as truth is a value and it loses its full meaning if narrowed down to the mere matter of fact.
Modern man’s RATIONALITY, for all its benefits (and there are many) has a cardinal failing: always taking things to their ‘logical conclusion’. This tends to forward forms of intellectual extremism or stunted understanding in persons without sufficiently varied life experience to back up a broad vision. The result of such rationality is almost invariably an excessively sophisticated or cultured mind which imprisons itself in the artificial mould of rational systems. The marks of this are a stiffness of principle, a taste for categories or even absolutes and stubborn resistance against new and contrary ways of looking at a matter and especially at one’s own untested assumptions. Through an excessively ordered conceptualism, the moving spirit of living human intelligence becomes prematurely crystallized and is thus falsified and imprisoned.
However, for millions of years, truth lived with man or man was truth personified when he did not have to worry about truth and thus man, unlike modern man, had no need for truth. Nevertheless, it is not truth that is dependent on us but we who are dependent on truth.
That today, truth has become more and more inconvenient, embarrassing and even suicidal, and that nobody today wants to touch it even with a barbed wire, are all the problems of modern man and not the problems of truth. Perhaps, that is why we say today that we need truth only in parts, we need only its superficial parts, its tantalizing parts and never the full truth or the ground realities of truth—the wholesome truth. The greatest problem before man today is to escape from this crucial dilemma. The home truth about truth is that even the criminal, sinner and the evil seek truth, for it is a question of survival for all including those whom are considered as the enemies of truth. The only difference between truth and falsehood is that while truth is powerful openly, permanently, and naturally, falsehood can be powerful only secretly, temporarily and artificially or technically.
Today, by the time we realize the real truth its falsification would have done the maximum damage and reached the irreparable stage. Today the world responds to a global problem when such response proves futile exercise—when problem has become highly chronic. Thus we are meaninglessly fighting our problems. The trouble is that when the real facts about truth’s latest established worldly version (for example, modern truth, rational truth) is finally revealed, it is when it would have become highly toxic, chronic, fully globalized, and unstoppable and having ended up with the only option of seeking the help of the very culprit of its falsification for solution and solace. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”, wrote - Arthur Schopenhauer, the great Philosopher.
We all know that there always follow problem, misfortune, trouble, disease etc. when we go against the ‘wishes’ of NATURE which is truth eternal. We also know that it is easy to solve a problem or cure a disease if its cause (falsehood/wrong) is identified and in the beginning and also we know that it is nearly impossible to solve it or cure a disease if its cause (falsehood/wrong) is not identified and not rectified in time and allowed to become chronic due to the long neglect and when falsehood has become the way of life. Now, as the long neglect of truth, by continuously courting the false ‘truth’ (rational truth), come recoiling in the forms toxic pollutions, sudden and widespread growth of degeneration of man society and the planet (mechanization is today diagnosed as the chief villain behind all sorts of degeneration diseases) and other avalanches of catastrophes, modern man finds himself caught in a deadly fix.
For example, we believe that MODERN SCINCE is the leading edge for all the discovery and treatment of mental illness and that the United States is the leading edge for the scientific discovery and treatment of mental illness. For more than a generation now, the West has aggressively spread this modern ‘knowledge’ of mental illness around the world. They have done this in the name of science, believing that their approaches reveal the biological basis of psychic suffering and dispel prescientific myths and harmful stigma. Suddenly, in a remarkable article published on January 10, 2010 in the New York Times, The Americanization of Mental Illness, author Ethan Watters reveals that although Americans "worry about our country’s blunders into other cultures...we may have yet to face one of the most remarkable effects of American-led globalization, that rapid globalisation has helped unleash a "contagion" of western ideas of mental illness on the rest of the world. Watters writes. "In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been, for better and worse, homogenising the way the world goes mad." . Ethan Watters further wrote in the New York Times:
[quote]There is now good evidence to suggest that in the process of teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we’ve been exporting our Western “symptom repertoire” as well. That is, we’ve been changing not only the treatments but also the expression of mental illness in other cultures. Indeed, a handful of mental-health disorders — depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anorexia among them — now appear to be spreading across cultures with the speed of contagious diseases. These symptom clusters are becoming the lingua franca of human suffering, replacing indigenous forms of mental illness.[/quote]
Can now the world suddenly rectify this highly globalized falsehood, particularly when it is led by America in almost all cultural sectors and the practice has gone deep in to the ‘genes’ of humans. This is as impractical as asking the world to suddenly shun plastics from all its present areas of utility as plastics is now found to be the primary source of most catastrophic pollutions in the world today.
We all know that might without right is suicidal and that truth is the ultimate savor. There is nothing in the world which is mightier than truth. And it is only wisdom that can ultimately follow and track down truth. In the present going, truth is never going to be traced, for today it is untruth that is tracing truth, and untruth is incapable of understanding and recognizing truth, let alone tracking it down. Wisdom is a gift which nature/God bestowed to each and every one of the creations in nature and which man critically tampered with when man moved from nature’s control to his own tool’s control—‘as the tool of his own tools’.
Another basic truth about truth is that we cannot find truth when we are thinking over it or trying to decode it by the help of modern science. Our final description of it as ‘relative’ too seems to be highly premature as it often leads us to conclude that truth is too elusive to be so scientifically chased. The truth is that truth cannot itself be trapped in words. Nowadays truth is seen by scientists simply as a concept representing factuality or else the validity of a theory. But this is far from being the whole truth of the matter. What has been regarded through the ages as truth is a value and it loses its full meaning if narrowed down to the mere matter of fact.
Today we judge something as true when the world gives it some sort of credibility in the form of, say, some prominent name, status, price, awards etc. But truth is not enhanced by credentials, nor does it suffer for the lack of them. Truth is also not bothered about its approval by the world, nor is it concerned whether it is backed by the majority. Truth simply happens, often to the dislike of the majority and the world. Only falsehood does all it can to garner majority support and approval. Truth stands on its own. If something is not true, it fails. However, as I believe, being silent on truth today is more catastrophic and more suicidal than speaking the truth. There is no better test of something’s worthiness than good results. Success leaves clues, so does failure.
Truths about Truth
Re: Truths about Truth
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The deepest truths are simple. They exist right in our front and staring us on the face. But we have been conditioned by our present society in such a manner that we don’t believe these truths. Similarly, the solutions to most problems that mankind faces today are such simple that they become visible right in front of us, but we have been so conditioned to judge them as too problematic that we prefer not to focus on them.
The basic truth about truth is that nobody can escape from truth. The only question is: how long can man remain elusive? Shri Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, taught in 500 BC: “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truths.” Now the long neglect of truth in modern history, by continuously courting the false ‘truth’(rational truth), has come recoiling in the forms of avalanches of catastrophes, modern man finds himself caught between the proverbial ‘devil and deep sea’.
Another basic truth about truth is that we cannot find truth when we are thinking over it or trying to decode it by the help of pure logics--modern science. Our final description of it as ‘relative’ too seems to be highly premature as it often leads us to conclude that truth is too elusive to be so scientifically chased. The truth is that truth cannot itself be trapped in words. Nowadays truth is seen by scientists simply as a concept representing factuality or else the validity of a theory. But this is far from being the whole truth of the matter. What has been regarded through the ages as truth is a value and it loses its full meaning if narrowed down to the mere matter of fact.
Modern man’s RATIONALITY, for all its benefits (and there are many) has a cardinal failing: always taking things to their ‘logical conclusion’. This tends to forward forms of intellectual extremism or stunted understanding in persons without sufficiently varied life experience to back up a broad vision. The result of such rationality is almost invariably an excessively sophisticated or cultured mind which imprisons itself in the artificial mould of rational systems. The marks of this are a stiffness of principle, a taste for categories or even absolutes and stubborn resistance against new and contrary ways of looking at a matter and especially at one’s own untested assumptions. Through an excessively ordered conceptualism, the moving spirit of living human intelligence becomes prematurely crystallized and is thus falsified and imprisoned.
However, for millions of years, truth lived with man or man was truth personified when he did not have to worry about truth and thus man, unlike modern man, had no need for truth. Nevertheless, it is not truth that is dependent on us but we who are dependent on truth.
That today, truth has become more and more inconvenient, embarrassing and even suicidal, and that nobody today wants to touch it even with a barbed wire, are all the problems of modern man and not the problems of truth. Perhaps, that is why we say today that we need truth only in parts, we need only its superficial parts, its tantalizing parts and never the full truth or the ground realities of truth—the wholesome truth. The greatest problem before man today is to escape from this crucial dilemma. The home truth about truth is that even the criminal, sinner and the evil seek truth, for it is a question of survival for all including those whom are considered as the enemies of truth. The only difference between truth and falsehood is that while truth is powerful openly, permanently, and naturally, falsehood can be powerful only secretly, temporarily and artificially or technically.
Today, by the time we realize the real truth its falsification would have done the maximum damage and reached the irreparable stage. Today the world responds to a global problem when such response proves futile exercise—when problem has become highly chronic. Thus we are meaninglessly fighting our problems. The trouble is that when the real facts about truth’s latest established worldly version (for example, modern truth, rational truth) is finally revealed, it is when it would have become highly toxic, chronic, fully globalized, and unstoppable and having ended up with the only option of seeking the help of the very culprit of its falsification for solution and solace. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”, wrote - Arthur Schopenhauer, the great Philosopher.
We all know that there always follow problem, misfortune, trouble, disease etc. when we go against the ‘wishes’ of NATURE which is truth eternal. We also know that it is easy to solve a problem or cure a disease if its cause (falsehood/wrong) is identified and in the beginning and also we know that it is nearly impossible to solve it or cure a disease if its cause (falsehood/wrong) is not identified and not rectified in time and allowed to become chronic due to the long neglect and when falsehood has become the way of life. Now, as the long neglect of truth, by continuously courting the false ‘truth’ (rational truth), come recoiling in the forms toxic pollutions, sudden and widespread growth of degeneration of man society and the planet (mechanization is today diagnosed as the chief villain behind all sorts of degeneration diseases) and other avalanches of catastrophes, modern man finds himself caught in a deadly fix.
For example, we believe that MODERN SCINCE is the leading edge for all the discovery and treatment of mental illness and that the United States is the leading edge for the scientific discovery and treatment of mental illness. For more than a generation now, the West has aggressively spread this modern ‘knowledge’ of mental illness around the world. They have done this in the name of science, believing that their approaches reveal the biological basis of psychic suffering and dispel prescientific myths and harmful stigma. Suddenly, in a remarkable article published on January 10, 2010 in the New York Times, The Americanization of Mental Illness, author Ethan Watters reveals that although Americans "worry about our country’s blunders into other cultures...we may have yet to face one of the most remarkable effects of American-led globalization, that rapid globalisation has helped unleash a "contagion" of western ideas of mental illness on the rest of the world. Watters writes. "In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been, for better and worse, homogenising the way the world goes mad." . Ethan Watters further wrote in the New York Times:
[quote][i]There is now good evidence to suggest that in the process of teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we’ve been exporting our Western “symptom repertoire” as well. That is, we’ve been changing not only the treatments but also the expression of mental illness in other cultures. Indeed, a handful of mental-health disorders — depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anorexia among them — now appear to be spreading across cultures with the speed of contagious diseases. These symptom clusters are becoming the lingua franca of human suffering, replacing indigenous forms of mental illness.[/[/i]quote]
Can now the world suddenly rectify this highly globalized falsehood, particularly when it is led by America in almost all cultural sectors and the practice has gone deep in to the ‘genes’ of humans. This is as impractical as asking the world to suddenly shun plastics from all its present areas of utility as plastics is now found to be the primary source of most catastrophic pollutions in the world today.
We all know that might without right is suicidal and that truth is the ultimate savor. There is nothing in the world which is mightier than truth. And it is only wisdom that can ultimately follow and track down truth. In the present going, truth is never going to be traced, for today it is untruth that is tracing truth, and untruth is incapable of understanding and recognizing truth, let alone tracking it down. Wisdom is a gift which nature/God bestowed to each and every one of the creations in nature and which man critically tampered with when man moved from nature’s control to his own tool’s control—‘as the tool of his own tools’.
Another basic truth about truth is that we cannot find truth when we are thinking over it or trying to decode it by the help of modern science. Our final description of it as ‘relative’ too seems to be highly premature as it often leads us to conclude that truth is too elusive to be so scientifically chased. The truth is that truth cannot itself be trapped in words. Nowadays truth is seen by scientists simply as a concept representing factuality or else the validity of a theory. But this is far from being the whole truth of the matter. What has been regarded through the ages as truth is a value and it loses its full meaning if narrowed down to the mere matter of fact.
Today we judge something as true when the world gives it some sort of credibility in the form of, say, some prominent name, status, price, awards etc. But truth is not enhanced by credentials, nor does it suffer for the lack of them. Truth is also not bothered about its approval by the world, nor is it concerned whether it is backed by the majority. Truth simply happens, often to the dislike of the majority and the world. Only falsehood does all it can to garner majority support and approval. Truth stands on its own. If something is not true, it fails. However, as I believe, being silent on truth today is more catastrophic and more suicidal than speaking the truth. There is no better test of something’s worthiness than good results. Success leaves clues, so does failure.
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Quite a screed. I agree with most of it with one major and a few minor disagreements. Taking ideas to their logical extreme is a solution, not a problem. Most ideas that are wrong are wrong because they fail to account for a variable that uses their conclusion. Taking an idea to its logical extreme is the best way to uncover what's missing or wrong. My entire philosophy ( tiny.cc/TheWholeStory, a theory of everything ), is derived by taking ideas to their logical extreme to check for logical problems. If an idea can Not be taken to a logical extreme without breaking, that's how you know it's irrational.
The deepest truths are simple. They exist right in our front and staring us on the face. But we have been conditioned by our present society in such a manner that we don’t believe these truths. Similarly, the solutions to most problems that mankind faces today are such simple that they become visible right in front of us, but we have been so conditioned to judge them as too problematic that we prefer not to focus on them.
The basic truth about truth is that nobody can escape from truth. The only question is: how long can man remain elusive? Shri Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, taught in 500 BC: “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truths.” Now the long neglect of truth in modern history, by continuously courting the false ‘truth’(rational truth), has come recoiling in the forms of avalanches of catastrophes, modern man finds himself caught between the proverbial ‘devil and deep sea’.
Another basic truth about truth is that we cannot find truth when we are thinking over it or trying to decode it by the help of pure logics--modern science. Our final description of it as ‘relative’ too seems to be highly premature as it often leads us to conclude that truth is too elusive to be so scientifically chased. The truth is that truth cannot itself be trapped in words. Nowadays truth is seen by scientists simply as a concept representing factuality or else the validity of a theory. But this is far from being the whole truth of the matter. What has been regarded through the ages as truth is a value and it loses its full meaning if narrowed down to the mere matter of fact.
Modern man’s RATIONALITY, for all its benefits (and there are many) has a cardinal failing: always taking things to their ‘logical conclusion’. This tends to forward forms of intellectual extremism or stunted understanding in persons without sufficiently varied life experience to back up a broad vision. The result of such rationality is almost invariably an excessively sophisticated or cultured mind which imprisons itself in the artificial mould of rational systems. The marks of this are a stiffness of principle, a taste for categories or even absolutes and stubborn resistance against new and contrary ways of looking at a matter and especially at one’s own untested assumptions. Through an excessively ordered conceptualism, the moving spirit of living human intelligence becomes prematurely crystallized and is thus falsified and imprisoned.
However, for millions of years, truth lived with man or man was truth personified when he did not have to worry about truth and thus man, unlike modern man, had no need for truth. Nevertheless, it is not truth that is dependent on us but we who are dependent on truth.
That today, truth has become more and more inconvenient, embarrassing and even suicidal, and that nobody today wants to touch it even with a barbed wire, are all the problems of modern man and not the problems of truth. Perhaps, that is why we say today that we need truth only in parts, we need only its superficial parts, its tantalizing parts and never the full truth or the ground realities of truth—the wholesome truth. The greatest problem before man today is to escape from this crucial dilemma. The home truth about truth is that even the criminal, sinner and the evil seek truth, for it is a question of survival for all including those whom are considered as the enemies of truth. The only difference between truth and falsehood is that while truth is powerful openly, permanently, and naturally, falsehood can be powerful only secretly, temporarily and artificially or technically.
Today, by the time we realize the real truth its falsification would have done the maximum damage and reached the irreparable stage. Today the world responds to a global problem when such response proves futile exercise—when problem has become highly chronic. Thus we are meaninglessly fighting our problems. The trouble is that when the real facts about truth’s latest established worldly version (for example, modern truth, rational truth) is finally revealed, it is when it would have become highly toxic, chronic, fully globalized, and unstoppable and having ended up with the only option of seeking the help of the very culprit of its falsification for solution and solace. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”, wrote - Arthur Schopenhauer, the great Philosopher.
We all know that there always follow problem, misfortune, trouble, disease etc. when we go against the ‘wishes’ of NATURE which is truth eternal. We also know that it is easy to solve a problem or cure a disease if its cause (falsehood/wrong) is identified and in the beginning and also we know that it is nearly impossible to solve it or cure a disease if its cause (falsehood/wrong) is not identified and not rectified in time and allowed to become chronic due to the long neglect and when falsehood has become the way of life. Now, as the long neglect of truth, by continuously courting the false ‘truth’ (rational truth), come recoiling in the forms toxic pollutions, sudden and widespread growth of degeneration of man society and the planet (mechanization is today diagnosed as the chief villain behind all sorts of degeneration diseases) and other avalanches of catastrophes, modern man finds himself caught in a deadly fix.
For example, we believe that MODERN SCINCE is the leading edge for all the discovery and treatment of mental illness and that the United States is the leading edge for the scientific discovery and treatment of mental illness. For more than a generation now, the West has aggressively spread this modern ‘knowledge’ of mental illness around the world. They have done this in the name of science, believing that their approaches reveal the biological basis of psychic suffering and dispel prescientific myths and harmful stigma. Suddenly, in a remarkable article published on January 10, 2010 in the New York Times, The Americanization of Mental Illness, author Ethan Watters reveals that although Americans "worry about our country’s blunders into other cultures...we may have yet to face one of the most remarkable effects of American-led globalization, that rapid globalisation has helped unleash a "contagion" of western ideas of mental illness on the rest of the world. Watters writes. "In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been, for better and worse, homogenising the way the world goes mad." . Ethan Watters further wrote in the New York Times:
[quote][i]There is now good evidence to suggest that in the process of teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we’ve been exporting our Western “symptom repertoire” as well. That is, we’ve been changing not only the treatments but also the expression of mental illness in other cultures. Indeed, a handful of mental-health disorders — depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anorexia among them — now appear to be spreading across cultures with the speed of contagious diseases. These symptom clusters are becoming the lingua franca of human suffering, replacing indigenous forms of mental illness.[/[/i]quote]
Can now the world suddenly rectify this highly globalized falsehood, particularly when it is led by America in almost all cultural sectors and the practice has gone deep in to the ‘genes’ of humans. This is as impractical as asking the world to suddenly shun plastics from all its present areas of utility as plastics is now found to be the primary source of most catastrophic pollutions in the world today.
We all know that might without right is suicidal and that truth is the ultimate savor. There is nothing in the world which is mightier than truth. And it is only wisdom that can ultimately follow and track down truth. In the present going, truth is never going to be traced, for today it is untruth that is tracing truth, and untruth is incapable of understanding and recognizing truth, let alone tracking it down. Wisdom is a gift which nature/God bestowed to each and every one of the creations in nature and which man critically tampered with when man moved from nature’s control to his own tool’s control—‘as the tool of his own tools’.
Another basic truth about truth is that we cannot find truth when we are thinking over it or trying to decode it by the help of modern science. Our final description of it as ‘relative’ too seems to be highly premature as it often leads us to conclude that truth is too elusive to be so scientifically chased. The truth is that truth cannot itself be trapped in words. Nowadays truth is seen by scientists simply as a concept representing factuality or else the validity of a theory. But this is far from being the whole truth of the matter. What has been regarded through the ages as truth is a value and it loses its full meaning if narrowed down to the mere matter of fact.
Today we judge something as true when the world gives it some sort of credibility in the form of, say, some prominent name, status, price, awards etc. But truth is not enhanced by credentials, nor does it suffer for the lack of them. Truth is also not bothered about its approval by the world, nor is it concerned whether it is backed by the majority. Truth simply happens, often to the dislike of the majority and the world. Only falsehood does all it can to garner majority support and approval. Truth stands on its own. If something is not true, it fails. However, as I believe, being silent on truth today is more catastrophic and more suicidal than speaking the truth. There is no better test of something’s worthiness than good results. Success leaves clues, so does failure.
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Quite a screed. I agree with most of it with one major and a few minor disagreements. Taking ideas to their logical extreme is a solution, not a problem. Most ideas that are wrong are wrong because they fail to account for a variable that uses their conclusion. Taking an idea to its logical extreme is the best way to uncover what's missing or wrong. My entire philosophy ( tiny.cc/TheWholeStory, a theory of everything ), is derived by taking ideas to their logical extreme to check for logical problems. If an idea can Not be taken to a logical extreme without breaking, that's how you know it's irrational.