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on the truth thing: truth is a hard concept to grasp... all would say that truth is fact. but what is fact? who says that fact is fact?
if you saw a black cube in the middle of a table, you would say as a fact that that black cube exists. but lets look at that:
evidence that the black cube exists: you can see it.
how do you know you can trust your eyes? you can touch it. how do you know you can trust your sense of touch?
in fact, how do you REALLY know that everything that people have told you is true? isn't it true that our perception of reality is based upon what we have LEARNED? would you assign the color blue the label "blue" had it not been previously told to you that your eyes' reaction to a specific wavelength of light is called "blue?"
how do you know what the word "fact" means? someone told you. Our civilization is all based on us being TOLD EVERYTHING.
What if, just think about this for a second, everyone is WRONG. every single last person on the earth is wrong. our perceptions of reality are LIES. ALL truth is LIE, and ALL lie is TRUTH.
what would happen then? if something made sense, but was total lies, you could accept it as truth, couldnt you? if nobody knew better, and the entire world BELIEVED i was a woman, it would be true in their minds that i am a woman. To them, it is truth. In fact, if everyone thought i was a woman, and it couldnt possibly be proven otherwise, wouldnt it be globally accepted as true? there is evidence toward its truth, and none to prove it false. It must be true.
the point is, if everyone believed something to be true, even if it is false- scratch that. it can't be false. if 100% of people thought something was true, there would be no third-person perspective to say that it is false.
if everyone believes something to be true, it is true.
you cannot say "to them it is true, but it is really false," because "them" implies that your perspective is third-person and you are not one of "them." in this case, you ARE one of them, and share their belief. Therefore, you cant say "it is really false" because your opinion is "it is true."
im done.
[Edited on 10/27/2006]