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RE: What is truth? The Ultimate Truth? Can someone truly lie all the time?
One mans pain is the next mans pleasure, one mans trash is the next mans treasure.
In my book, assuming that there is one absolute truth, it can only be found by viewing at everything with an absolute objective outlook. To have a good and wide view on things while also remaining or enhancing objectively, someone has to distance oneself both emotionally and physically.
I actually apply that in my day to day life and it helped me solve a lot of problems I as well as others have. Or would have if people would listen to me more.
Of course, most people don't want to be objective. They don't want to distance themselves. And they certainly don't want the truth.
You can't be objective about everything. Many things we do in life we instead are operating on probabilities. We might trip if we take a certain path, but odds are that we do not. Perhaps if we move slower or with a specific gait we can change the probabilities to be more in our favor.
We cannot objectively know a great many things. We can try to know as many things as we can objectively and that is a GOOD practice. Yet the reality is there are so many things to know that to simply survive a lot of our life is a balancing games of probabilities based upon informed guesses that rely upon the input we have received.
If we were purely objective we'd likely be stationary and not do anything, as the act of moving and interacting with so many other moving things that are not subject to our will moves us into a realm beyond what we can purely be objective about.
We are both subjective, and objective.
Being subjective is fine and natural. It is only bad when people push something subjective as FACT.
That is the point I was trying to make.
We, regular people living regular lives, can't distance ourselves enough from life itself to truly get a glimpse at said truth if it actually exists.
I consider myself to be much more objective than others if I must, but I am objective enough to understand that I am not objective enough to even have a glimpse of an idea of being able to comprehend everything objectively.
It is a fascinating topic, really.