If truth is in play, on the table, even in any of man’s purview for discussion, we may continue. But truth is just a word. And in this case, a written one. Try as we might (and we do, don’t we?) to communicate our having of things in consciousness to others we believe are of some like consciousness, we may find there comes a point of great difficulty. Even impossibility in the limits of our communication(s) of our understandings and definitions, to another with their own.
To reduce this to the absurd is too easy. But is it true? The 17 year old boy laboring strenuously in the back seat with a young lady, both in a certain circumstance, is looking toward a particular outcome. Finally she says “but only if you love me”.
How common is it that it may only be days later, or months later, or even years later (does it really much matter? Even adding “vows” can become awkwardly accusatory) that a word believed of some transcendence over time meets the test of time and fails? Time and changing circumstance make subjects of us all. It might be tomorrow, it might be next week, or year, or decade(s), but we may learn how malleable we are, even in matters we consider of rock bottom foundation.
Again, did the earth change from flat to sphere somewhere along the line? And might we learn a caution then if there be any pooh poohing from our present back to theirs?
In this ridiculous case of the back seat lovers it is often made clear to one or both, or perhaps even neither yet that “being on the same page” is no small feat. Or that where it was assumed to be so, was not. The cost of it may be shown too high, and is often considered so. And we do learn something of the cost of our own assumptions and presumptions, don’t we?
Unless of course you are the one who has never uttered nor thought “If I had only known…then…” We even find our own history replete with testimony of a “one” who was not on the same page as another in now. “When I was a young man…” I am/was not myself. It sounds odd to put it that way…but is it true? We usually hear the more employed “I am not the man I once was”, for now “I know better.”
But the question remains…is that true? The man referred to as not as myself, today, the younger man, the more ignorant man (?) inexperienced man…tell me…did he also and no less think he (at that time) knew better…in his exercise of choice(s)? Only later to be either shown presumptuous, ignorant and/or quite uninformed. So the man who stands today thinking “now I know better”…how different really…is he from that other man?
That “other” man that no less, at that time, thought he knew better.
And although it may be uncomfortable to consider; nevertheless, is it true?
And so that word again…true. A thing of truth. Truth. Is it transcendent? Is it, in all, malleable? Does it even mean anything? Does it need support or does it, is it, all that does support? Do facts support truth, or are facts our only “seeable” manifestation that a matter of truth is at work in supply of them? Stuff exists…do we therefore only refer existence as a property assignable to stuff (even consciousness), or do we hold to some obverse? Stuff exists…therefore there is a testimony of existence. Rather than existence being defined in, and only by term of stuff?
We shall find, if we have not already, we can of ourselves progress no farther than metaphor. We are, by our own observations de facto stating a remove from reality. It becomes to us, a “thing” observed, seeking to measure its properties, its laws of function and abidance, at a remove, at some distance. And all the measurements, calculations, conclusions that take place in mind are never any more than “it’s like this”. And also at best then, all communications which derive from consciousness are then and only all the more removed. Is it a problem/issue we just accept? Or is it that we rarely consider it?
What’s the truth of those questions?
What is truth? Is a question many have asked. Even farther back in time than that ancient Roman procurator is recorded to have asked. Seems some things…don’t change, at all. Some considerations…despite all the seeming progress in time and/or technologies can bring us no closer to resolution. But the always pernicious lie remains, just assume you know it…and do, and will always be able of yourself to recognize it. It was said earlier we all play with building blocks. But what if we find the very first one toxic and able to contaminate all else built upon it? What resort have we then? Any?
What would any “know” to do…if all knowing is then shown, not merely fragile, but utterly corrupt in all? What would be the “go to”? How could a man even know…he is wrong in all his knowing?
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