This post is made of lies

[kigs]

You are looking at black marks on an electronic screen. Some people call these words.

Are there levels of truth? If something is slightly false, is it impossible for it to also be true?

You are looking at black marks on an electronic screen. Then, you are telling yourself that they form words. Then, you extract meaning from the organization of these words.

Since words are not symonomous with their meanings in the same way that a picture of an apple is not an apple then, in presenting you with words, I am presenting you with an image which you draw meaning from. As the meaning is not the same as the word, and two seperate messages cannot be the same truth, then I am telling you lies. Further more, you are willingly believing my lies.

All words are made of a little bit of lies, since they are not equal to the truth.

This represents a viewpoint that I have heard.
I think this is a bad viewpoint, but I want more opinions.
What do you think?

Truely,
~Kigs

Comments

[skadjer.livejournal.com]

I'm one of the few weirdos who is, in fact, looking at black words on a mostly white screen........ or AM I !???
You want an additional mindfudge, the letters are not black at all- they are neutral screen-colored... it's all the pixels around them which are lit, thus creating discernable contrast and the illusion of subtractive value.
In actuality, my screen is displaying everything BUT your words.

And yet, through a sneaky process of elimination, I am inadvertantly given sufficient evidence to discern what your words might very easily have been.

As for the contradiction of multiple truths, remember, remember, the feline of Shrodinger... and that the newest of theories within the bowels of quantum mechanics suppose that, until proven otherwise, not only are all possible outcomes possible.... they are, in fact, simultaneously real.
Contradictory realities are allowed to exist in the - decidedly different-functioning - unobserved spacetime.

So not only does the turth that caused you to document it in a specific pattern of nonexistent letters exist, but until I hop in my car and pay you a visit, and perhaps turn back time to the point at which your writing was inspired, so does the version of reality I visualize upon its reading.

Truth is little more than the first angle at which you choose to slice the twisted, convoluted cake of possibility.

Take THAT, irksome viewpoint!

(mmmm... cake.)

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

Your ability to combine metaphysics and cake astounds me.

Unfortunately, your analogy to Shrodinger's existentially confused feline is not a legitimate one.

In the case of the cat, the possibility of all realities simotanously exists. In the case of the apple, there is an objective apple. There is no uncertainty about it. Yet, the concept of the cat still deviates from the cat itself.

[skadjer.livejournal.com]

There is nothing astounding about faulty understanding.
Perhaps it was fallacy to cite Schrodinger. However, what I posed was merely a modernized understanding of the phenomenon- challenging not the realm of possibilities, but instead the manner in which they are organized prior to observation... and certainly not the original theories under which the feline's best interests fell and perished.

But alas, my formal training in metaphysics extends no further than recipiency of the Lungpower Award from UKRR. (University of Kenny Rogers' Roasters)
So in Ad Hominem's glorious spirit, I shall withdraw my crackpot claims and take up gardening to fill the void it has left in my soul.

But btw, the cat more accurately describes your current dillema than does the apple... as you are fretting the untruth of words chosen to represent events when the very recipient of those words has no other window into said events, and until so doing, has grounds to neither propose falsity, nor to substantiate any claims from the source party.