the truth about truth: an inconvenient truth

We all had a time when we argue with someone about thing or two in our life. Sometime, it ended with a happy ending where the two understand each other and maybe a romance can grows from the arguments or it could end in a bad ending where the only chance for further interaction is when a sharp object is involved in someone stomach. Just try to stay away from the bad ending as much as you can friendo

Yes, we as human always fighting for what we think is right, for what we think is justice, and for what we think is the truth. When a human truly believes in a truth, you can see the true quality of a tiny little human existence compared to the universe and how his/her faith can change the fabric of reality itself. The power of faith is real and it is a positive quality about human morale that rarely seen in this modern age. But still, I guess deeply in every human heart, everyone wants to save the world defending what is righteous while wearing cape and super thigh spandex like superman defending the earth with his underwear outside. But before you strapped that C4 to your body and planning to die with the others members of Al-Qaeda, maybe you should know that the things you believed as the truth might be not the truth.

Philosopher, scientist, spiritual teacher, myself and maybe yourself (if you are not too busy opening porn site right now) had seeks for the meanings for truth for centuries and nobody can perfectly say what is truth. Every single brain in this earth had a different definition about truth and how they feel it in this life is also different. Nobody had the same exact opinion about truth and reality.

So, to help you understand what truth is we should start by looking in the dictionary first. According to Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, truth is a state of being in accord with fact or reality. It can also mean having fidelity to an original or to a standard or ideal. In a common usage, it also means constancy or sincerity in action or character. As you can see, even in one dictionary there could be three meanings for truth so it might be better if we don’t speak about the meaning of truth in Japanese and Mandarin dictionary because I wouldn’t  want to burn my fingers to death typing all those meanings. In easy way, truth had a very strong bond with reality like a Siamese twin that glued with super glue. We can say something is a truth because we believe it was a part of our reality, something that truly existed right in front of you and there’s no way you can deny it. 

Now that we get the most common understanding about truth, let’s take this article into the higher level about truth. If you are not a heavy thinker type, you might be thinking that it’s useless to understand the deep meaning of truth because Truth is exactly what you see and what you feel, simple and absolute. Well, guess what Sherlock, have you ever thinks that what you see and feel isn’t exactly as you see and feel it? Let me give you an example. Do you remember the time in the kindergarten where you draw the sunrise between two mountain and color the sky with blue and the suns with yellow or orange? Well you are wrong about the color of the suns. The sun is supposed to be white not orange and before you think that I am colorblind or mentally retarded, I can give you the reason why the sun is supposed to be white rather than orange.

The exact color of the sun is actually #fff5f2. For those who are not a graphics man or web designer, that number is not a car registration number from Papua Nugini. It’s actually a code for white in HTML color code because if fire became very hot it will turn from orange to white. The reason the Sun looks yellow to us on Earth is that our atmosphere scatters light from the Sun; so the apparent color of the sun changes. This same scattering effect is why the sky looks blue in the day time instead of black, like at night. So, the point is even the sun that you see everyday glowing in bright orange or yellow is lying to you since its actually glowing white. The sun just lied to you, friendo.

 

"ha...ha"

You see, even something that you see everyday when you go out from your home isn’t exactly as you seen it. Perception, assumption and experience can deceive you to see another possibility that you can’t or you think you don’t want to see it. It is why truth is actually a complex concept which hard to understand as an objective matter which makes some intellectuals believe that truth is a subjective matter and it doesn’t objectively exist, it is our self that creates truth in our life.

The Buddhist also had some interesting way to see the truth and reality. For them reality is emptiness, life and all the content of the universe is just an illusion created by the mind, feeling and perception of human feeling. The surprising things about the way Buddhist see the truth is that it had some correlation with how modern science see the truth and the Buddhist already figure it out thousands years ago.

It’s hard to explain the theory without being sound like I just got escaped from Batman from taking me to Arkham mental asylum but I will try my best to do it.

Back to the time where Einstein messy hair rules, he and his colleagues discovered that there is a problem with his theory: The laws of physics didn't seem to work once you got on a subatomic scale. In fact, even today, no one has been able to marry Einstein's theory of relativity with quantum physics, and that was not because the scientist is too lazy to figure it out. One attempt to figure that problem is a theory called string theory, which simply suggests that once you get smaller than an atom, everything is a string. Specifically, a 2-D unit called a quantum string. So far, it is quite easy to understand isn’t it?

So, String theorists think that everything we see, feel, hear, touch, taste and screw is nothing more than the vibration of those strings. Those who believe in this theory took that theory further by suggesting that maybe everything we feel, hear, touch, taste and screw could be a 3-D projection of cosmic data encoded on a 2-D surface. You know, Kind of like the hologram you see on a credit card, if that hologram had you, your mom, your city and the entire universe inside it. 

 i can see my house from here

I knew that it is still a theory and it could be wrong or it could be right. But if this theory is true, it meant even our existence, our reality and every truth we believe is just a lie just like the Buddhist said, nothing more than a mere illusion. It seems like even the universe is lying to us now and it make the concept of truth we used to know sound like the biggest prank God made for humanity.

 

who said God didn't had sense of humor?

 

            Still, we all had a right to have faith in a truth, no matter how stupid your truth is. Believe it or not, faith can changes the fabric of reality and it is scientifically proved by the way. One example for the power of faith that I could give is the placebo effect where, in a nutshell, if you have faith that you will going to be well soon, even if you are deadly ill, you’ll be healthy for sure. It said that our body had the best medicine that can cure almost every sickness in this world and to get that best medicine go to work is by having faith in your self. It has been tested by a doctor that gives his patient an empty capsule where he lied by saying that it was a super medicine created by a team of super scientist that could heal even superman when he was in fever and it work. The patient healed from the illness by himself. In extreme case, noetic science even shows that human mind had the capabilities to affect solid matter like ice and maybe it can affect something bigger than we can imagine.

            Truth is an important aspect in our life because it defines our world and how we live in it. Every human lives with his/her own believe in truth and that believes creates a reality in his/her life. If you can understand truth meant you understand reality, to understand reality meant you understand the universe, to understand the universe meant you understand yourself.  I think it’s really important to open our insight about truth and share it to others so we can learn more about truth. If you had an interesting insight about truth I would really appreciate it and f you don’t you could always go back watching those porn video.