To clarify: Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
Truth has never existed, and will never be. Truth is a word. An idea that only has meaning when we compare it to "that which is not true". True and false are relative terms at best. Only words or interpretations can be true or false. Phenomenon simply are. That which exists is beyond truth. That which has no words has no truth. Everything is an interpretation and thus open to debate. Truth is not finite. Truth is not graspable. It is only known by the letting go of the duality true/false.
Neitzche was perplexed with the question "why do we worship truth?" He thought that the will to truth must be justified, and to his knowledge, never had it been so.
Everything is permitted. There are no laws save those of nature, and never have been. To our knowledge the laws of nature (known through basic physical sciences) are unbreakable. The laws of man, while occasionally well intentioned, are silly, meaningless and ultimately a conundrum in terms of enforcing law which can be and is often broken.
The laws of nature do not dictate that "Thou shalt not kill" they simply arrange life so that those who spread pain are in turn pained in their existance. Any action you can take, you can take. Living with the consequences of your action, is the basis of responsibility.
And thus, there was the saying in mesopotamia, when a sufi (mystic) attained a very degree of discipline and training, he was told "nothing is true. everything is permitted."
Truth has never existed, and will never be. Truth is a word. An idea that only has meaning when we compare it to "that which is not true". True and false are relative terms at best. Only words or interpretations can be true or false. Phenomenon simply are. That which exists is beyond truth. That which has no words has no truth. Everything is an interpretation and thus open to debate. Truth is not finite. Truth is not graspable. It is only known by the letting go of the duality true/false.
Neitzche was perplexed with the question "why do we worship truth?" He thought that the will to truth must be justified, and to his knowledge, never had it been so.
Everything is permitted. There are no laws save those of nature, and never have been. To our knowledge the laws of nature (known through basic physical sciences) are unbreakable. The laws of man, while occasionally well intentioned, are silly, meaningless and ultimately a conundrum in terms of enforcing law which can be and is often broken.
The laws of nature do not dictate that "Thou shalt not kill" they simply arrange life so that those who spread pain are in turn pained in their existance. Any action you can take, you can take. Living with the consequences of your action, is the basis of responsibility.
And thus, there was the saying in mesopotamia, when a sufi (mystic) attained a very degree of discipline and training, he was told "nothing is true. everything is permitted."
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