Re: The Absolute Truth

"Doc Hammerslack" <[email protected]> posted:

> At Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:57:22 -0400, Noah Sombrero <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:54:10 +0000, Creon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > >At Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:00:49 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Just tell the Truth.
> > >> 
> > >> Will someone, anyone, tell me the Truth? For God's sake. Just spell out 
> > >> the whole goddamned absolute truth! Or, just keep on lying. Lying to 
> > >> yourself! YMMV.
> > >
> > >"In the beginning was the Word..."[*]
> > >
> > >"Logos", thought by some pre-Socratic philosophers to mean
> > >"the divine order" -- that is to say, the Laws of Nature.[***]
> > >
> > >[*] Literally, "Logos"[**]
> > >
> > >[**] An idea that had been around longer that 500 years before
> > >the author of the fourth gospel tried to claim Jesus was its
> > >personification.
> > >
> > >[***] A close reading of _A Brief History of Time_ will find
> > >Dr. Hawking appears to agree.
> > >
> > >...Um, wait -- were you talking about "truth" or "TRVTH"?
> > 
> > Only a LIAR asks what is TRVTH? - Pilate.
> 
> I constructed that whole post, and _that's_ what you
> came out with on the other end? smdh.
> 
> Some of us (TINU), for whom the "truth" has become synonymous with
> "TRVTH", have learned to *survive* by pulling the wool over our
> _own_ eyes.
> 
> All we can do is try to leverage what time we have left, to try
> to make the world a better place.
> 
> (And here it is, almost 2 in the morning, and I'm taking the
> time to explain that.  For more fun, I joust windmills.)
>
It should go without saying, that the absolute truth can't be put into words.

Having said that, there are actually two truths: there is relative truth and
there is absolute truth.

Just saying.
 
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