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I Hate the World We Live In

People hate the truth because the truth is anathema to ego.
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Well, one persons truth is the antithesis of another. We make our own truths.
BlueDiver · 36-40, M
That's a cop-out akin to "everyone is beautiful" or "no one is better than anyone else" - yes, many truths are subjective. But some aren't - some are 10 times more in line with the evidence than others.
Yes but the point is that some peoples reality is so removed that it doesn't really correlate with even the most normal of assumptions. There are truths we're in consensus with, we're on earth and we're human, but to some in extreme cases they aren't.
Just as one person might believe that god will descend down on a chariot from the sky, your evidence means nothing to them. It is their truth.
BlueDiver · 36-40, M
But that brings up the ultimate argument about the nature of subjective and objective truth - how the hell do you really judge whether a truth is subjective or objective? Until near the end of WWII, 99% the the people in Germany believed the Nazi propaganda that said that they were the good guys. The few people who went against that were the ones considered to be so removed from reality that they weren't on earth with everyone else.
Well our perception creates our reality, and our environments influence our perception of the world. Objectively that was their truth for it's what they believed.
That's why normalcy itself is the thing that is subjective. It changes from one place to another, and goes to show how different our realities can be.
One person's truth became the "truths" of many.

So what is true to you is important, as while it may be in consensus with other ones, there are parts of it that will always be yours alone through your life experience, we make our own truths to an extent.
BlueDiver · 36-40, M
That actually makes a lot of sense, and I agree with what you just said completely. It sounds wrong, to use the word objective to describe someone's subjective, personal truth - but in the context that you used it in, it's true.

But anyway, to bring this back from larger philosophical discussion to the more grounded subject of the story - if someone's idea of what's true is based on ego and delusion, then that viewpoint is very, very far from any truth.
True, i suppose it just depends on ones definition of the truth. For it is always applied from the perspective of our normalcy. I think the difference between somebody suffering from delusions is that the mechanism for defining the truth is different or formed/wired in a certain way. So in terms of the truth we all consent to, we all just see it differently and we see different parts of it based on ourselves like a lens.
Like if we grow up being told we're all made of cake it might be true to them, but its not the actual truth... But it is true to them.

my heads starting to go a bit kafucky now from it all haha.
BlueDiver · 36-40, M
Yeah, my head's hurting a little bit too at this point. It was a stimulating discussion nonetheless, so thanks for that.
Yeah thanks no worries, a good day to you sir!