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09-21-2005, 01:40 AM

Great theme, sub.

But I don't really think exactly like you. We say that we really don't like having or hearing the truth. This is bcause the truth, is bad. Many people think that the concepts of truthness/falsity are equivalent to good/bad or correct/in-correct. But no, they are 3 independent disasiciated themes. Now, when i say trth is bad, is not that truth it self is bad, for truth itself is a concept, and thus, it cannot act independently in any manner, either positivelly or negativelly. It is the minds inwhich the concept of truth is collected, where truth becomes bad. If I recieve this morning the news from apoloicman that my mother has died, then I will strongly believe the truth to "BE" bad. Actually, I would believe it to be false. This is another error: as we wrongly tend to give goodness-badness characteristics to truthness-falsiness, then this leads to other wrong colcusions, like the fact that one, either truth-false is the other one, because it is either bad or good. What I basically mean is that truth is something we believe we don't want to know. But in the end, we do want to know truth. It is in our pure most instinctive nature. We created science, philosophy and mathematics for that. It is actually a main prupose in life, to acheive truth.

And althugh I agree that probably the very "true real correct good theory of everything" will be neglected by many, not only scineitists, but by society, it will eventually be accepted, as much as it gives enough empricial and rational basis. You see, I don't believe there is one unique toe. I believe there will be one unque toe. But there are many possibilities of arriving to it, different, and their explenations are different, but, in the end, we will arrive to the most logical and simple one we can find out.

And, if in any case people wouldnĄt want to hear the truth, then, why id people accept Einstein's theory of special relativity in 1905?
  
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