Profound Thought No. 1

I have just finished an excellent book entitles The Elegance of the Hedgehog. If you get a chance, you should read it, it's very good.

One of the things which one of the main characters in the story does is record her profound thoughts. My introspective/ philosophical side of course loves this whole concept and even participates in such things upon occasion.

In other words, I'm a bit of a nerd. I see this fact as a positive though.

So, in any case, the book got me to thinking about truth. I realized that truth exists in the world not in spite of but is evidenced by the fact that there are contradictions and conflicts. Think about it.






Have you thought abut it?


Well, now that you have, I would like to state that truth is what is. I forget who said that originally- Aristotle perhaps? In any case, much of the conflict in the world comes from the fact that people disagree about what is. However, the fact remains, that what is still is even if opinions differ. I may be considered pretty in one part of the world and ugly in another but this doesn't mean that beauty doesn't exist, it just means that people view it differently.

As for the contradictions, why would contradictions make people angry if truth didn't exist? Why does it make us more angry to see a televangelist cheat people out of money than it does when we think of the people on infomercials? Because there is conflict between what our knowledge of how religious leaders should be n how they are acting. What is- the televangelist- is coming into conflict with what is- expectations of religious leaders. Both are true in the fact that both exist, and the fact that there is conflict over the way things are and how things "should be" just goes to show that imperfections are also true in the sense that they exist... I'm not sure where I'm going with this whole thing, but here it is for you to read...


That will be my profound thought No. 1. I have others, but I won't burden you with them all right away. :)


~Lindsay