The truth.
What is the truth?
How can we define it, well according to the Cambridge online dictionary truth
is "the real facts about a situation, event or person" , but how can
we know what is real and not simply a convincing illusion?
Given this, why do
we seek the ultimate truth in God or science or whatever path we choose to believe
in, clearly we think this will bring us something, but what?
For example why do
people so desire to chase whether or not Shakespeare was who he said he was or
whether an anonymous source was the true voice behind his writing, does this
change the works? Alternatively seeking out whether or not the government had
something to do with Marilyn Monroe's death, would it change anything if we
knew?
Personally I don't
think it's bad to seek the truth, there's something marvellously unsettling
about the idea of living in a great illusion.
But what if we
found out what was behind everything, and it was evil or consisted of
nothingness and random ideas? It would blow apart our whole lives.
What we have to
ask ourselves is, whether ignorance is truly bliss and would truth bring pain
or enlightenment. Will we ever know?
Nice thoughts Wee Katie. And you are right, even things we think as solid truth today may turn out to be false in years to come. An example of this is they once 'KNEW' the earth was flat, and they once 'KNEW' the universe revolved around the Earth. What we know as true facts today maybe non sense tomorrow.
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Oh hi there chum :3, thank you for that and I totally see what you mean about Marilyn, it's like it got so far that Marilyn Monroe killed Norma Jean.
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