Off Topic — HabitableZone

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The whole truth and nothing but.

No, there is truth.

It is merely tempered by relativity and perspective. The truth accomodates relativity and bends with time and space.

The view is real from the top of the Empire State Building looking down, as it is from the bottom at the street looking up. Each view is the truth based on a unique and identifiable frame of reference.

Here at the HZ, the same basic principles are at work. Bowser's worldview is the truth according to his position, as yours is to you in your position. Each defends their views because to them they are truth and they must absorb new positions and new perspectives to see any other.

Each tempers truth according to their position. Even science and 'facts' are bound to the relativistic nature of the universe. What's accurate in 2009, scientifically, will seem like dark ages stuff a thousand years from now - and almost all completely inaccurate or incomplete. They will laugh, loudly, at what folks are currently taught as fact. And in some further remote period those people will also be laughed at for truths they held.

Universal truths may exist and govern the univierse as we recognize it, but labeling and describing these universal truths is doomed to inaccuracy and the limitations of our knowledge and language.

So truth does exist. You do yourself a disservice to think that it doesn't. You simply have to realize that it is infinite, and is infinitely represented in an infinite number of positions, times, relationships and perspectives.

;-)

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