I know that ultimate here is an adjective for you but what definition mostly speaks to what you are pointing to?
adjective
last; furthest or farthest; ending a process or series:
the ultimate point in a journey; the ultimate style in hats.
maximum; decisive; conclusive:
the ultimate authority; the ultimate weapon.
highest; not subsidiary:
ultimate goal in life.
basic; fundamental; representing a limit beyond which further progress, as in investigation or analysis, is impossible:
the ultimate particle; ultimate principles.
final; total:
the ultimate consequences; the ultimate cost of a project.
not to be improved upon or surpassed; greatest; unsurpassed:
the ultimate vacation spot; the ultimate stupidity.
noun
7. the final point; final result.
a fundamental fact or principle.
the best, greatest, or most extreme of its kind.
By a clear truth, do you mean only one?
I am not saying that one necessarily cannot as I do not know but is it actually possible to achieve a clear truth in life as a goal?
When it comes to truth, aren’t many more or less simply opinion, even though perhaps informed opinions?
Does truth as you have it include proven fact? I think, but do not know, that you may be referring to truth as more metaphysical.
Can there ever really be a clear truth in life since truth can change, our perspectives or subjective truths, can change, scientific knowledge can change (yes or no?
I do believe we were already agreeing on existence - I suggested that the only thing we can say with certainty is that we exist - you suggested that non-existence is a fantasy. There are many aspects of existence that we already agree on WendyDarling.
I have been spending some time looking around ILP, reading many different threads and posts. I have become quite interested in the differing points of view that people have. The human mind is breathtaking when I consider the diversity of imaginings possible that it can collectively give us.
The mind reminds me of the ancient Chinese game, Go. Go has more possibilities than the number of atoms in the visible universe. That tells me that the mind has many more possibilities - if I am calculating this correctly then the mind is capable of devising more versions of reality than the total number of atoms in the visible universe.
Staggering - and that is just the versions of reality . . . Now I am contemplating whether non-reality is also fantasy . . .
That is what I have been up to on ILP.
Otherwise I have been digging deeper into the complexities of emotions and logic - fun stuff . . .
I think that what it means to exist, is to have objective reality, to occur, to be affected by the surrounding existence and to affect the surrounding existence.
At a more abstract level: To consume and be consumed. Your constituents are permanent.
My head is pounding - so slap me silly if you have to, and correct me if I am mistaken.
Part of what I said previously is summed up in your signature:
The Real God ≡ The reason/cause for the Universe being what it is = “The situation cannot be what it is and also remain as it is”.
An unchanging situation is a fantasy.
Yes it is certain that something else exists besides us - yet another truth. What it is that we are a part of, surrounds us and also exists - to put it simply.
To neatly summarize:
The Real God ≡ The reason/cause for the Universe being what it is . . .
. . . “The situation cannot be what it is and also remain as it is”.
It is a certainty that we exist.
To exist is to be affected by the surrounding existence and to affect the surrounding existence.
What it is that we are a part of, surrounds us and also exists . . .
. . . “We are inseparable from that which surrounds us”.
I believe that to say that we can be separate from that which surrounds us is yet another shallow concept.
What I have learnt from you among other things is that infinite homogeneity cannot exist - each point in space has the potential to affect - anything without physical affect cannot physically exist. Hopefully I got those three things right.
I am happy enough with my answer to hit the submit button. I am not quite certain if it is the answer to your question though.
I disagree if a constant is unchanging (pi or the speed of light), but I would also add that the unchanging situation that exists, exists among other unchanging situations, so variety (or the appearance of change) is found in the multiple of situations recognized as a whole. Is the path of a charged electron constant?
It makes sense what you are saying because a situation is a set of circumstances in which one finds oneself . . .
. . . and includes the location and surroundings of a place.
You appear to be speaking of a snapshot of reality - like a photo - but I believe you are thinking on a deeper level than a simple photograph. The situation cannot be what it is and also remain as it is - there is a special place for constants - as you say the unchanging situation that exists, exists among other unchanging situations - to which I would reply the appearance of change is like a video - it occurs at x frames per second - and is found in the multiple of situations - one after the other - but a past situation - one singular situation cannot be changed and has fallen into the register of totality to become a mere fantasy - a memory - not to be retrieved nor changed, except through the residue of a perception - a perceived history.
Truth however exists in the here and now - and each frame containing truth also falls into the register of totality.
We are the infinite communicating with the infinite and the medium that we use to communicate is temporary.
As soon as I hit the submit button my written words do not suffice because they have become my past by the time you perceive them . . .
. . . that is: they have fallen into the register of my totality.
If eternity/infinity is constant and the Truth it represents is constant, the here and now would never change by its very nature, hence another constant that appears as you say a video of snapshots. Have you seen the discussion JSS and I are having in the Expulsion thread? The discussion here and there are related.
Hmm . . . allow me to contemplate what you are saying here - I would be indebted to you for that. I have not seen the discussion in the Expulsion thread - would you be so kind as to provide a link for me? I would greatly appreciate it.