I was wondering about truth the other day and about whether there may or may not be an absolute truth. A lot of people nowadays say: everything is relative. But even that statement by its own accord becomes relative and thus is a little silly. Some say knowledge or the idea of truth is just useful. This thing I heard the other day made me think: Someone: There is no truth, only usefulness. Someone else: Is that true, or just useful? I was wondering about what can be called absolute... and I guess change is absolute. It is always going on. It is perhaps the only permanent thing in the universe. Movement through space... can be called time. But time is a concept - and it is all just movement, change. So I guess change is absolute, and the statement: everything is relative, cannot be true. What then is truth? Is the only truth change? Is there a moral compass in nature to show us the way, or do we simply live and learn and better ourselves by seeing examples and imitating behavior? I don't think this universe is a clockwork. Or maybe it sort of is. But even a clock is magic to me. The mechanism, the intricately designed mechanism, is wonderful. I don't understand it... and suddenly: an atom clock? Pinch me, am I dreaming? Atoms? Clocks? How do they come up with these kinds of inventions! Nature is the ultimate model for everything we do. Recreating her, in the small. Describing her, in a minimalist way. We are so under her influence because she has ignited a fire within us. We just don't see it. We think we must cut rainforests down, use animals for testing, and the oil in the seas... So, mankind is slowly destroying its own habitat. Isn't it true that we must respect our earth and each other? But then one can ask, what is respect? Some say no truth can ever be proven, not even by mathematics or logic. It's called the Münchhausen Trilemma. But how to prove that? It all becomes a big circle of reasoning, or an infinite regress of arguments, or the proof and argument rely on each other or on unproven basic ideas (axioms). It's one of the unsolved problems in philosophy. #philosophy #GagaScholar #pullupthepeople #love #summaryofmymind #fanart