#truth is subjective

[ask-dandy]

Old? Just how old are you? Where are the newer Dandh Models?

“There aren’t any. I won’t let them replace me like everyone else.”

(Truth Stick 5/5)

[neverluckygoldfish]

84 -

I feel a little defeated. It’s easy to see mistakes in a vacuum but there is more to me than that.

My pride and self worth have been knocked down a peg or ten.

Just because I made a mistake doesn’t mean I’m a bad person. I’ve done a lot of good. I have good in my heart.

That has to mean something.

[kaetor]

one for your lies, one for your hate

[headcanonthings]

*During their first date* Bernard: So… what do you like to do in your free time? Tim, sleep deprived with no filter: I like to stalk. Bernard: Oh! Well I like to make Youtube videos Tim: I know.

[originalartblog]

[ the Murase AU ] (part 1)

(part 2/2)

Chuuya leaving after the Dragon's Head Conflict means that he barely (IF he did) had access to the Arahabaki files (post-DHC gift), and never got to see his parents (executive promotion gift). Ranpo is not gonna stand for his detective skills being questioned, and since he was challenged while deducing Chuuya's past...

[magnetothemagnificent]

There is no evidence that your religion is true.

There's no evidence I'm not fucking your dad either, and yet here we are, anon 🤷‍♂️

[philosophybits]

Truth is not objective, ordinary reality, reflected in the knower and entering into him from outside, but rather the enlightenment, the transfiguration of reality: it is the introduction into the world's data of a quality, which was not there before truth was revealed and known.

Nikolai Berdyaev, Truth and Revelation

[marciaillust]

mom come pick me up people related to my personal posts too much

[sunder-the-gold]

Censorship, Subjective Reality, and the Truth of Truth

If you believe in censoring information for adults, you don't believe in objective truth.

If you believed in objective truth, you would believe that truth will fight for itself. As long as truth is exposed and not hidden, it will always prove lies to be false.

But if you believe the only truth is power, then you think that power allows you to dictate truth.

You rightly see the ability to speak as power in itself, but that only inspires you want to deny that power to your enemies while hoarding it for yourself.

Because you see truth as such a malleable thing that can only be properly controlled by the powerful. And then, not simply the powerful, but only the powerful who acknowledge that truth doesn't exist until they speak it into existence.

"Cognito-hazard". You see ideas not as rational arguments but as psychic diseases. Words don't exist to communicate truth, but as vectors for viral infection. You use words to infect and inoculate others against the infections you hate.

Simply hearing an evil argument is enough to turn someone evil, simply associating with an evil person is infectious. You have to cut out of your life anyone who exposes themselves to evil. You have to run away at the merest risk of hearing the other side.

Because you don't see human beings as rational actors, but as beasts driven entirely by the most charismatic speakers. No one can change the mind of a crowd by revealing the truth to them, only by stoking their passions the most effectively.

You know, because you are driven entirely by your passions. Your envy, your fear, your hatred. Therefore, no one turns against you unless they fear or hate you the most, or they covet what you possess. There are no "reasons".

Therefore you justify censorship by deriding the masses as idiots who cannot understand truth. Unworthy to wield power, unfit to criticize those who dictate truth to them.

That never applies to you, of course, no matter how powerless and oppressed you feel. You ALWAYS have the right to criticize, and the right to take power. Especially from anyone who claims truth is objective and can be clearly seen by everyone.

Anyone who tries to expose objective reality to you, you hate and must destroy. You call their words violence against you.

Anyone who tries to ignore your subjective reality, you hate and must destroy. You call their silence violence against you.

Because you think there is no Truth but Power, and you cannot abide a bootheel on your neck from anyone but those who agree. Because even if that tyrant doesn't love you, the both of you can hate the same people just as violently.

And your master might even let you eat the scraps that fall from the table.

[gratiae-mirabilia]

inclusion this, diversity that… why don’t you include yourself in the one holy catholic and apostolic Church through Baptism and experience the diverse gifts of life in Christ

[ask-dandy]

Ya know what I don't think you've been entirely honest with us Dandy

*bonks him with the stick that makes you tell the truth for 5 asks*

“Rude. And not to disappoint friend, but I don’t think that how it works.”

(Truth stick 0/5)

[neverluckygoldfish]

31 -

Something I’ve been thinking about lately: we really aren’t in control of anything. Life is going to happen, people are going to people. I think having a false sense of control, a false sense of ego - this is our ultimate hubris.

Why do we care so much about the opinions of others? They never have the full story.

I recognize I speak from a place of privilege and not everyone has the same opportunities or freedom to choose.

If you think about it, we are all so wrapped up in our own heads. No one, NO ONE, is thinking about me as much or in the same way I think about myself. It’s a double-edged sword: we don’t really matter to anyone else as much as we matter to ourselves. It’s a lonely thought. At the same time, it’s so freeing. Those humiliating moments, those mistakes & regret we hang onto and let color everything we think about ourselves moving forward - people aren’t thinking about them the way we do. In fact, I’d venture to say that most of the time, they may not even remember.

Example: I went to a meeting with my good friend while I was visiting my mom. He’s in recovery and he brought up this time that he was being irresponsible & drove over my foot with his car and I was so angry at him. I can’t even recall that happening. Same thing - I brought up this time that he was telling me how broken he felt and I condescendingly told him “well if you know there’s a problem, then go fix it - maybe you just don’t care enough to”. Lol not my most empathetic moment. He barely remembers that conversation.

Everyone is living their own reality. I’m coming to realize truth and fact are not the same - truth is actually incredibly subjective. It’s dependent on the individual and their perception/their beliefs can skew it. It’s like when two people look at the same picture and feel something different. Or when two people are asked to recreate a work of art and their creations are different from each other, in addition to being different from the original. Similar, but not exactly the same.

Wealth, status, power - these are all social constructs. These are ideas. Who came up with them? Certainly not a higher being, but another human before our time. I won’t delve into this too much, but none of it really matters in the long run. That fancy car, being a CEO, being with someone “out of your league” - it won’t give you the validation you seek. It won’t add or take away from who you are, what your intrinsic values are.

So what to do with all of this? Still trying to figure it out but I think it boils down to - do whatever the fuck you want. No one cares, no one’s looking at you (if they are, they’re looking at themselves in you - projecting). This is life, we all get one shot, so don’t be afraid. Acknowledge your past but don’t let it consume you. Every day is a new day, a new opportunity, to: do what you love, say what you feel, start again, change the future.

I’m sitting on a plane to go back home & I’ve had a bit of caffeine lol.

[thirdity]

I cannot countenance the traditional belief that postulates a natural dichotomy between the objectivity of the scientist and the subjectivity of the writer, as if the former were endowed with a 'freedom' and the latter with a 'vocation' equally suitable for spiriting away or sublimating the actual limitations of their situation. What I claim is to live to the full contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Roland Barthes, Mythologies

[rosieofcorona]

I KNOW it's veilguard and it's been veilguard for months and i've accepted that in my mind but in my heart it will always be dreadwolf

[sadkachow]

i couldn’t be in the magnus archives world.

and even if i was, i sure as hell couldn’t work in the archives/institute.

not because i think id be uniquely immune or anything. im not that dumb. but because upon finding out that i couldnt quit or kill elias, i would’ve simply just gone about making his life as miserable as possible. who cares if he could have seen me with his stupid fucking eyes? let him. i would find some way to make that living hell for him too. i don’t need the element of surprise to make someone miserable i dont even need to kill them. if i can’t be fired and i cant quit, then i’d be making it everyone fucking else’s problem. i may not have the “powers of the entities” or be a “super special avatar” but you know what i do have the power of? being fucking petty. i’ll be so fucking annoying he’ll either have to fire me himself or kill me, and either way, i’ve won, because it means that i pissed him off that much.

[dandelionjack]

look, i know the concept of faceclaims for gods are, like, so 2016 amino witchtoker got-here-via-riordan cringe teen unserious business, but. caleb landry jones. that’s all i’m going to say and everybody can draw their own conclusions

bonus whiplash image: cosplaying are we?