#truth is subjective

[neverluckygoldfish]

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Something I’ve been thinking about lately: we really aren’t in control of anything. Life is going to happen, people are going to people. I think having a false sense of control, a false sense of ego - this is our ultimate hubris.

Why do we care so much about the opinions of others? They never have the full story.

I recognize I speak from a place of privilege and not everyone has the same opportunities or freedom to choose.

If you think about it, we are all so wrapped up in our own heads. No one, NO ONE, is thinking about me as much or in the same way I think about myself. It’s a double-edged sword: we don’t really matter to anyone else as much as we matter to ourselves. It’s a lonely thought. At the same time, it’s so freeing. Those humiliating moments, those mistakes & regret we hang onto and let color everything we think about ourselves moving forward - people aren’t thinking about them the way we do. In fact, I’d venture to say that most of the time, they may not even remember.

Example: I went to a meeting with my good friend while I was visiting my mom. He’s in recovery and he brought up this time that he was being irresponsible & drove over my foot with his car and I was so angry at him. I can’t even recall that happening. Same thing - I brought up this time that he was telling me how broken he felt and I condescendingly told him “well if you know there’s a problem, then go fix it - maybe you just don’t care enough to”. Lol not my most empathetic moment. He barely remembers that conversation.

Everyone is living their own reality. I’m coming to realize truth and fact are not the same - truth is actually incredibly subjective. It’s dependent on the individual and their perception/their beliefs can skew it. It’s like when two people look at the same picture and feel something different. Or when two people are asked to recreate a work of art and their creations are different from each other, in addition to being different from the original. Similar, but not exactly the same.

Wealth, status, power - these are all social constructs. These are ideas. Who came up with them? Certainly not a higher being, but another human before our time. I won’t delve into this too much, but none of it really matters in the long run. That fancy car, being a CEO, being with someone “out of your league” - it won’t give you the validation you seek. It won’t add or take away from who you are, what your intrinsic values are.

So what to do with all of this? Still trying to figure it out but I think it boils down to - do whatever the fuck you want. No one cares, no one’s looking at you (if they are, they’re looking at themselves in you - projecting). This is life, we all get one shot, so don’t be afraid. Acknowledge your past but don’t let it consume you. Every day is a new day, a new opportunity, to: do what you love, say what you feel, start again, change the future.

I’m sitting on a plane to go back home & I’ve had a bit of caffeine lol.

[kaetor]

one for your lies, one for your hate

[magnetothemagnificent]

There is no evidence that your religion is true.

There's no evidence I'm not fucking your dad either, and yet here we are, anon 🤷‍♂️

[originalartblog]

[ the Murase AU ] (part 1)

(part 2/2)

Chuuya leaving after the Dragon's Head Conflict means that he barely (IF he did) had access to the Arahabaki files (post-DHC gift), and never got to see his parents (executive promotion gift). Ranpo is not gonna stand for his detective skills being questioned, and since he was challenged while deducing Chuuya's past...

[philosophybits]

Every writer, thinker — even every educated person thinks it necessary to have a permanent point of view. He climbs up some elevation and never climbs down again all his days. Whatever he sees from this point of view, he believes to be reality, truth, justice, good — and what he does not see he excludes from existence.

Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible

[gratiae-mirabilia]

inclusion this, diversity that… why don’t you include yourself in the one holy catholic and apostolic Church through Baptism and experience the diverse gifts of life in Christ

[sonego]

sun kissed lewis ☀️

[chirpsythismorning]

It's giving audience was so distracted with 010 in the opening of s4 that they missed the willel wondertwin evidence right under their noses...

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the alse notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov

[ierohero]

god made lesbians and bi men to be bestfriends :)

[marypsue]

(Or, to put that post in more professional language: you are never going to be able to force everyone who experiences or interacts with your art to have the exact same reaction to the art. You are not going to be able to control absolutely the reaction that anyone has to your art. This is not a bug, it's a feature.

And yes, that does mean there will always be someone out there who wants to fuck that character/creature. Yes, even that one. You really truly do have to just get over it.)

[thirdity]

On one hand, the various objects of this world offer themselves to anguish as the bait, but in a sense contrary to that of sacrifice: here we are caught in the trap of a small and separate reality, exiled from truth (insofar as the word refers not to a narrow horizon but to the absence of limits). On the other hand, sacrifice promises us the trap of death, for the destruction rendered unto the object has no sense other than the menace that it has for the subject. If the subject is not truly destroyed, everything remains in ambiguity. And if it is destroyed the ambiguity is resolved, but only in a nothingness that abolishes everything. Yet it is from this double bind that the very meaning of art emerges — for art, which puts us on the path of complete destruction and suspends us there for a time, offers us ravishment without death.

Georges Bataille, "The Cruel Practice of Art"

[thegirlsarethriving]

just finished undertale. ok i see the vision. i now understand yall's Sans-to-Benrey obsession pipeline. and the Papyrus-to-Tommy Coolatta pipeline

[theneighborhoodwatch]

i was thinking a bit about how even in illustrated material, wally is always smiling, but his neighbors all have varied expressions aside from their puppets…maybe since he’s likely the only one who truly sees himself as a puppet, he can’t really break through the confines of his puppet’s mechanics (aside from widening his eyes, i guess)? my thoughts were maybe everyone else seeing the world through the lens of being People means they can express More? i’m not sure i explained this right

oh anon. i could kiss you right now (or hug you, or shake your hand, or whatever form of affection conveying the general message of "holy shit that's exactly what i've been trying to say this entire TIME i'm so glad someone else sees it too" that you would be comfortable with.)

i do mean The Entire Time, too - most explicitly here, but it also comes up here and here, and i consider it to be a sort of Background Noise in many of the speculation posts i make. they are puppets. they are people. i do not think these facts are mutually exclusive.

the idea that either you understand your own existence to be solely that of a puppet, but still feel Everything a person feels without having the tools to process any of it OR you understand your existence to be that of a person, but are in an environment that disagrees and reacts accordingly, and that eventually these two perspectives converge - there's no way they can't, when they exist in such close proximity to one another, always bearing witness to one another.... i'm not sure what to say about how it makes me feel other than i think it's The Absolute Most. i don't think my feelings have changed much since i wrote those posts i linked.

(also +1 points for the theory that wally's abilities are defined/limited by his own understanding of reality, ex. the whole "you eat with your eyes first" thing, the fact that the only thing that keeps him from sleeping is that he doesn't understand sleep itself, etc.)

[philosophybits]

I wish to know, not actuality, but the truth about actuality. And I may learn what this truth is, only because in me, the knowing subject, there is a source of truth and because I may communicate with this truth.

Nikolai Berdyaev, The Beginning and the End

[slavicafire]

ultimately though, watching anything set in the interwar period is so tragic - because you as a viewer know both what came before and what comes right after. it looms over the characters - they are inherently intertwined with it all - but you as a viewer know. no number of fascinating plots and interesting characters and great cabaret sequences have any power to put even some semblance of distance between you and that knowledge