Originally posted by ragesRemorse
Those were not all observations, even so, an observation cannot be true?True, black people were looked as, as scientifically inferior. However, this was an ignorant opinion. Many lies people unknowingly tell are ignorant opinions or rumors. Many conversations spawned in KMC have been thought to be entirely true, but were nothing more than opinions or ignorant carried rumors. Word of mouth, and power has inlfuence to inspire a false truth. Just as the supposed inferiority of black people in the past.
Blue is just a word, but it is a word to be indetified with for description of color. This accepted word to describe the color Blue is a truth because we all accept it as a description, there is no subjectivity there, there is also no opinion. Though the color Blue may be percieved differently by people, it is still identified with everyone. Me telling a Color blind person that the sky is presently Blue is not a lie. That same color blind person telling me that he does not see a blue sky is not a lie either.
I have indeed never met you.I have however, shared posts alongside you on this forum. There is a possibility that someone else is talking to me under your name of lil bitchiness. I do however, recognize you from your profile and date registered. Me claiming that you are alive has nothing to do with anyone else. I am referring directly to you from your posts. You posting and participating tells me that you are alive. Unless your a vampire, which in that case i would totally be contradicted and then have to shoot myself knowing that Vampires exist. 😕
Ok, this is my view and belief and it is that there is no such thing as an absolute truth - there are certain observations that are established as truths and thought to us - this is because such ''thruths'' existed way before we were born and they will exist after we are born.
The example of this is religion. You cannot prove the existence of god and i cannot disprove it to you, and thus such thing is based on sole thing one calls a ''truth''
My truth may not match your truth, but it doesnt necessarily make it a lie either.
In the ancient times, it is believed that Gods made rain - this was the truth at the time, and anyone that had said different as considered ignorant, because THAT was an established truth at the time. A lie was anything that was suggested to be different.
We now have set of truths, which i can almost guarantee will not be the same in 200 years time. 300 years ago such thing as ''man flying'' and ''recording sound'' were deamed as impossible and thus anyone who suggested differently was ''mad'' and ultimately ''lying''
Your truth - what you find as a fact are someone else's observations accepted as ''truth'' and fed to you - some accept it, some dont.
As I mentioned before, just because you cannot see or observe something it does not mean it isnt there - and take high pitch sounds as an example. Does it mean that if we couldnt observe high pitch sounds, they wouldnt exist? No, the dogs could still hear it, but such thing as ''sound that cannot be heard by humans'' 300 years ago was not a truth but a lie.
The fact that you see and believe certain thing at this point in time, might be your truth, but it certainly doesnt match everyone else's. If it did match everyone else's, we would never progress. Everything is subjective, because everything can and everything does change - and it has, if you go back all the way to beginning.
The fact that you ''know'' that I am alive by my posts is utterly ridiculous. You know that there is someone typing this, but you have no idea who it is, or how many of us there are - my persona online cannot tell you wether im alive or not. Person who wrote under the username of lil bitchiness in sept 2003 might be complitely different to the one thats here now, and you dont know if that person is dead or alive.
I am not a hypocrite at that, because all I said and all I believe is subjective and I am willing to embrace new and other possibilities - the one that deam to fit my idea of truth.