Friday, April 08, 2005
I have a teapot.
Is anything driven to the extreme, or the absolute, a dead end? If we take the ideas of truth, good and bad, imperfect and perfect, virtue, love (or what Socrates' wanted which was perfect love), ect., all of these are a desire toward an end.
Recently talking about perfection, it was mentioned that it isn't real or doesn't exist. A digression went on about how imperfection exists, but if perfection doesn't exist, then, neither does imperfection. How can one be without the other? In one sense, their is no imperfection, but only difference in existence.
If something false, or a lie, (or whatever one would term as the opposite of the truth), lets use fiction which means "not real", then, if it isn't real, or in one sense, doesn't exist, then neither does the truth, for it is dependant upon something not being true. So what is there? So there is only the reality, not true or false.
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In theology they teach that to be perfect is to be God, so there is always that as an example of perfection - if you are one of the unfortunate ones who actually believes in such nonsense.
I'm atheist so obviously that arguement fails to satisfy me. In which case I'm moved to something else.
Perfection is being all that is desired, and with that definition it's naturally subjective - a desire has to have an owner. Now, I'm a perfectionist so it's hard to reach this zenith of what I deem to be "perfect" but [if and] when I do, and the day is done there's an air of satisfaction which cannot otherwise be had.
Truth is another concept, something which can only be defined against something else. Take the theory of gravity, if you throw an object up, it's true that the object will fall down - given it's on a planet with reasonably high gravity and escape velocity.
I can't just start rambling this shit off like TeeJay.
But I agree, if that counts for anything...?
Oh, it counts for everything.
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