Human Being the Ultimate, as an example of the needlessness of assumption

Sometimes it seems that to abandon a given idea is like to abandon your very being. One of the ideas most commonly taken this way is Truth — and this is why some people still want truth in some form even if they agree to all the arguments against truth itself. This is why a commenter some time ago quipped me that “giving up truth is giving up”. But exactly that we are so reluctant to give up a given idea shows that it is a blind spot, something we can’t really analyse, something we (somewhat literally) can’t take in a distanced perspective.

To illustrate this thought, i’ve chosen to use the idea that the human being is the top of all creation, that humans are better than anything else anywhere. And i am choosing this idea exactly because i think it is very completely bogus, so much so that i believe it will be hard to find someone who still believes in this. If i’m wrong, and you are really positive Human-Being is the Ultimate, rest assured the exact same point could be made with any idea you previously held very dearly but ended up discovering it was simply bogus.

unsolvable truth

OH NOES! I had promised myself not to go into that again. But i seem to have been incepted with a way to put the issue that is SO cool.

So, again, about the non-existence of truth. The heaviest evidence in the case is that believing in truth makes you silly.

it does not matter whether there is truth: the end of an era

I just realized i have been wasting my time. I have spent the longest while discussing whether or not there is truth, for i do believe there is not, but i also believe to have consistently established that communication is impossible. Therefore, even if there is truth, or even something alike enough to it do deserve the name, it will be impossible to convey to your fellow human beings, thus making it impossible to test or actually do anything in regard to it, which in effect renders the question of the existence of truth moot.

And here ends the THERE IS NO TRUTH series.

how to learn astrology, or the possibility of understanding if words are only words

To be honest, this is not an astrology tutorial. I am definitely not good enough to write one of those right now. But as a form of excuse for the catchy title i’ll try to point to the best tutorials i’ve found (and in the next post i will actually talk about astrology, swear!).

I’ve said that words do not have real meanings and that there is no Truth™ — and i seem to be stuck at my own self-fulfilling prophecy. I say that you cannot transfer experiences through words, and i see myself trying to convey an idea that does not fit with other people’s experiences.

A different tactic, then. Instead of arguments, i will tell a story.

“The tale of how i learned astrology”.