Truth is a lie.

I don't believe it took 25 years to come up with that.

All this is really is an extension of why I don't believe in insanity. If truth is relative to the individual, then doesn't that train of thought almost require one to go deeper and say that truth is TOTALLY subjective to the individual? And if that truth holds clarity to that individual and that individual only, doesn't that truth become a lie when enforced on anyone else?

Consider geocentralism. Back in the day, we all thought that the Earth was the center of the universe. End of story. And it made sense too - we knew that everything revolved about and whatever, and since we never had the sensation of motion then everything else had to be moving instead.

Until that guy with the telescope saw things for what they were - or how he thought things ought to be, to be slightly more accurate. Then the whole heliocentric thing came into being, leaving geocentralism behind to antiquity. Truth learned, truth destroyed, truth relearned.

But was he right? Everyone thinks so - until all this new science out there proves yet another founding part of our scientific beliefs to be in error. Again. Who's to say that in another decade or century or millenium that we won't discover something else that disproves heliocentralism? Or we discover that the world isn't round. Or that the sky's really green - and we're all colorblind?

Not me. Nope.

Of course, this revelation isn't going to go over well. I've already been laughed at by just about everyone who I've told this stuff to (thanks Jen, for being the ONLY one not to laugh...).

And of course, they're well within their logic to be laughing at me. If solid matter is a truth, and truth is a lie, then why can't we walk through walls?

Well, we can. But we can't. It's called conditioning, kids.

Consider the elephant. Born in captivity, people will shackel the poor beasts with heavy chains to keep them in place so they don't run off or something else to that effect. After it sinks in that the thing aroud their leg is nigh unbreakable, the humans can tie them together with simple rope. Now, we all know that an elephant can break a rope by just utilizing it's mass - but it can't, because it believes that the rope's unbreakable. Just like we can't walk through walls.

So the trick is to unlearn everything we've been taught to be truth, and convince ourselves that truth doesn't exist - thereby ending everything as we know it. Cool.

Well, that depends on your opinion.

Personally, I can't find anyhting about reality that I REALLY need. But that's just me.

But seriously - IF truth is indeed a lie, and reality is based on our perceptions of truth, then reality doesn't actually exist - because it's a falsehood.

But it does exist, because we've been conditined to accept it to be real. But I've already gone over that basic concept on the Method of Sanity and Confusion page. Therefore, I'll just direct you there. And no, I still don't know how to write hyperlinks - you'll just have to do it yourselves. Suffer.

Ewww... remember - reality includes Jerry Springer.

So if reality doesn't exist, then the entire universe doesn't exist either, right?

Well, no.

Remember - the elephant can't break the rope and we can't break reality. It's just too engrained in our collective psyches. Even at the base of my being I probably don't really believe all thos crap. At least not on any level that makes a difference. But on an intellectual level I do, and that will have to do for now.

I suppose that the most comfort I'll have on the subject is that if I ever do break down the barriers, relearn everything the right way, and apply it to my little world I'll have the distinct pleasure of blinking out of existance as if I weren't even there. Because I never was.

And neither are you. Congratulations.

(talk about a weak ending... ick)