On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

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Knowledge is a product of the human intellect and tends to lead to the erroneous conclusion of itself as the permanent source of all truth. As life and knowing are temporary and relate to sensation, they lead to deceitful effects of false positivism. Intellect is just there as a survival skill and can as often be used to conceal the truth as discover one; this leads to the universally human drive to know for real. This can become competitive to a fault and must always take place, but not without a subtle system of linguistic feints [d'esquives]. People even delude themselves into equating a word with that which it purports to represent when they do not reflect on the subjective nature of metaphors which always stand for something else. Words are just convenient shorthand for referring to a conceptual field of objects determined through usage as ’similar (enough)’ and therefore, related as if through identity ['leaf it alone!']. Truth is therefore a contingent series of substitutions for itself which have come to be accepted and reinforced. If all language is, to some degree, unconsciously un-true that means even rational people reduce the world to a fixed number of manageable concepts upon which order is imposed according to the knowing subject; referring all truth back to a subjective consciousness leads, not to error per se, but straight at delusion. Ignoring this fact is necessary for the creation of truth’s appearance and insulates man from the undifferentiated streams of pure perceptual consciousness. Therefore reality is a process negotiating essential differences of relation within the imitative sphere of time, space and assigning their value through metaphor [i.e. equivocation which cannot be fully proven as such].

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The ‘actual’ world is imperceptible free from a human consciousness to perceive, which does so through language, a means of producing different types of knowledge called “science” [which meant 'guys in lab coats mumbling who scribble before/after tests' much less back then]. The human instinct is not for language but for metaphorical expressions of relation that lead to it as a means of re-ordering the world to improve, assuage fear, dominate, create, be love/d, deceive, etc. The intellect, however it may produce or be implicit in deceit, is free to interrupt or inhibit the metaphorical system of linguistic relations as received; also showing others how to do this for yourselves. When the criteria for truth is based solely on what has gone previously impervious on before, you’re already left open yourself up to deception: Real, truth is currently what is based out of the past, not mastered indiscriminately by it.

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