tiberry

Incredibly well said!!! Asaris, how many people do you think will object that 2+2=4? I think we need to define the scale or dimension of the 'absolute truth' we're talking about. Seems to me that it's difficult to compare "truths" such as - The meaning of life to 2+2=4. Or maybe that's the real question!

I'm struggling to find the connection between those 'truths' that can be measured and thereby proven and those truths for which there is no measurement. I've always held that things ARE what you experience them to be. Therefore, the means by which you measure reality become infinately important.

For example: Time allows us to PERCEIVE movement. An object WAS there, NOW its here. What if the object was always THERE and HERE? How would we know? If we can't PERCEIVE it to be so, then should we assume it to be false? I'm sure some folks on the board can give some twisted examples from Quantum mechanics that "prove" that depending on several factor such as measurement, that a single particle can be proven to exist at two seemingly different locations...do you accept that as an absolute?

What if EVERYTHING is EVERYWHERE at once and THEN and NOW are the same time? Just because we can't perceive it doesn't necessarily make it not so! In this extreme, can you see how even mathematics break down to the point of irrelevance? 2+2=infinity.

What I'm trying to say is this: The "truth" itself is irrelevant...its the EXPERIENCE that counts. Without white, there can be no black; without in there can be no out; without is, there can be no is not...our perception of that which is different is the basis of our reality. Even the use of the word "truth" proves it. Without "false", there could be no "true".

That which is, is all that there is.

By the way...If anyone disagrees with me, you've proven me right!

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My life's work is to bridge the gap between that which is perceived by the mind and that which is quantifiable by words and numbers.