So many people claim that they have truth...

So many people claim that they have truth. So many people who think they have truth are rebuked by other people who think they have truth. When I examine my own beliefs, I also believe to have the truth and sometimes wonder how people could believe any different. I believe in truth, why can't other people? But then I realize how subjective my idea of truth is, and how even those of similar beliefs even still vary wildly in my beliefs.

I've begun to believe that I am dumb for the past few weeks. Not able to articulate my feelings as I once had been able to. But as Ive occupied my time with books and activities which are mentally stimulating, Ive found this isn't the case at all. Ive come to the realization that the problem isn't with my mind, but the integrity of my beliefs. I can't articulate my feelings because I can't even trust what I believe to be true. I'm no longer able to express myself fluently because I know that if I try, Ill become conflicted with myself as to not fall victim to bias, because as a principle, I value truth, and if I value truth and speak based on what I feel to be true, I've fallen short of the truth.

This election has especially weakened and completely challenged everything I believe to be true. It has caused many people to reveal what they really think about the world. The tension during this election has given people a justification to unbashfully state exactly what they believe because the election has given them the moral justification to say exactly what's on their mind because "I'm right because I am." I'm sure people from both left and right have good reasons for what they believe, as do we all, but this melting pot of passionate convictions has made me question even my own.

I've never thought of myself to be highly intelligent, I think that self proclaimed intelligence displays a satisfaction of what an individual has already discovered on their own. I dont impress people with what I think, I just enjoy knowing things and thinking about things, but lately after being confronted with my own beliefs to the point that I caught myself in my own unwavoring biases based on the principle of not giving someone of opposing opinions the satisfaction of causing a shift in my beliefs out of pride. It clicked with me that the reason people like on the far left are so vehemently opposed to any other opinion except their own is because they've favored wanting to be correct over embracing a shift in perspective.

I think I took the black pill, and it's scary.

What is truth Holla Forums?

Im not reading all that shit nigga

Think less and do more. That which you can observe and experience will give you more insight than being trapped in your own head.

made me lol


It's difficult. I'll have moments where I'll become apathetic and just do my own thing, then see some shit on the news that makes me want to investigate and be apart of it somehow, knowing I pretty much have no say in it anyway.

I am literally trapped in my own head

I don't need truth, I have autism.

That is why you must do more. Widen your perspective.

>the reason people like on the far anything are so vehemently opposed to any other opinion except their own is because they've favored wanting to be correct over embracing a shift in perspective.
ftfy fam

What do you mean


I agree, I was giving insight into my own biases though

Fucking this. OP you should also not think about politics so much. If you are in the US the election just ended. You have almost two years before the midterms. Experience life and people outside of the internet and reading in general. You'll learn much more. Maybe you'll even become an disgusting "moderate" and have friends with all kinds of different views.

Stop ruining my observation-derived convictions that the average leftard is even more autistic than the average poltard.

I mean this

Life is the best teacher. If you are trapped in your own head you are too introverted, too internal in general. Think about the world and the people directly in front of you in the moment. Get to know individuals. Experience more, more anything. Learn and absorb and realize you will keep learning and absorbing new info for your whole life.

The more you learn, the less you know. And that is good. It means you are finding out there is more to everything and a lifetime is not nearly enough to know a fraction of it.

The funny thing about the "truth" is that the more people you can get to believe your version of the "truth", it will slowly begin to form in the real world. I enjoy the Truthseeker poster for this exact reason. His ignorance is only compounded by his arrogance, and is truly the perfect example of a soul afflicted with confirmation bias and a superiority complex. But alas, we are all affected by ignorance, arrogance, confirmation bias and either a sense of superiorty or inferiority, which leads us to enlarge our own beliefs to a pompous degree in the pursuit of independent truth, or throw ourselves into the arms of blind faith, hoping the other side isn't as bleak, respectively. The central point of all this is that the truth is unobtainable unless you force your truth onto others, and that is the nature of all political debate.

I dont want to be a normie user :^(
but yeah moving to this new state hanging out with actual people and losing my virginity has been fun. Years of being a lardass and the internet has ruined me until recently. I think this is what culture shock feels like.


That's what woke me up was the arrogance and complete self assurance in my own truth when I wasn't like that before, then seeing the manner of complete assurance of others, but what is there to be sure about? What is there to have belief in? I want some fucking meaning in this short life.

I personally believe there is a truth, but in order to grasp it you have to be very far away from the situation the truth is about, and you have to be able to look at it from "above", so to speak. For example, it's much easier to be able to grasp the truth of what happens on a small colony of ants than it is to grasp it on a discussion people have all around the globe.
So, you'd need to be a higher entity that watches over everything or an all knowing machine in order to grasp it.
That's for the complicated topics, for the simpler topics of course truth is easier to grasp, 2+2 will always equal 4 and so on.

Now, according to Hermetism, and this is some weird philosophy shit, there's no real truths, only "half-truths", and many paradoxes arise from those but which can be reconciliated.

TRUTH IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT FLOATS OR WHAT SINKS AFTER YOU TAKE A SHIT.

You made me laugh; not derisively or smugly, but in a sick empathetic way. This is what I believe to be one of the only truths of our time and all times for that matter; what we believe to be the all encompassing truth stems from our own personal beliefs of other people, our morals, our beliefs on what a society and social system of people should be. As such, the one and only "truth" is such a paradoxical statement that all one can do is stare blankly. How do you find a common truth between a genuine National Socialist and a Globalist Capitalist, or a Nationalistic Capitalist and a Globalist Socialist? That is just the most relevant political example of our time, but it applies to all things. What is the true answer for the one who believes in polygamy against a monogamist? One who puts his family's needs first against the needs of the a society? People who think apple juice is better than orange juice, and vice versa? Humanity was fucked as soon as we started killing each other over city states and tribalism evolved into a massive pissing contest to see who is right and who is wrong. Humans crave answers, yet ironically the is nothing to learn.

You aren't alone

There is more to being a normie or not than interacting in the real world. Meet crazier and crazier people. Keep getting culture shocked. Do weird shit you never thought you would do. When you've had enough, spend time here or read elsewhere to recharge. Then repeat. Balance it all out.
Fuck more women. Take it from a literal oldfag. Not nearly as old as vid related but he is correct.

It's a fallacy known as "Argument by Assertion" and possibly the most common logical fallacy that everyone has done at least once and everyone is a victim of The preceding statement is also an argument by assertion itself

I want to believe :^( We lost and have been buried, even to natsocs the ideology has mostly faded and isnt what it was originally intended.

So by stating absolutely that something is truthful, even when it is, that isna fallacy?

Of course not. But when you assert a truth you'd also better back it up. A truth only becomes an assertion when it's not backed up by non-falsafiable fact.