Wednesday, August 6, 2014

The Truth Trap

One thing that mysteriously, powerfully, detrimentally traps people is the strong desire to seek truth. There is no truth, there are only facts and perceptions. We need to accept facts, science is fact, therefore we need to accept it. Facts are absolute while truth, since it is merely perception,  is an illusion. We don't need to spend a lot of time to think about if something is true, but we do need to think about if something is factual. While fact is an objective exist and is not attached to any person's perception, truth is arbitrary and is subject to one's belief. In other words, your belief makes an arbitrary perception truth. The meaning of a perception is its effectiveness. The world is what you think it is, effectiveness is the measure of truth. So before accepting a "truth", think about its effectiveness, think about whether it helps you or harms you, and how much does it help you, whether there is another "truth" which can help you more, and adopt the "truth" that helps you most.

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