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[size=106]As philosophers, one of the things we must do is search for the Truth. In order to search for the truth you must respect the truth. To search for truth you must begin with the truth. And even then, with all our efforts, the Truth is difficult to become.
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.And what if one is not yet ready for that search, what if one does not as yet see ‘truth’, let alone respect truth?
What if fear has gotten in the way and illusion?
How does truth then begin to show its existence?
To me truth seems to be the ever illuding constant.
Haha… 
…well at least is is perhaps the first effort at actual philosophy (for a long needed change).
Perhaps consider your format for the next change???
…just say’n. 
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We are homo-empathic by nature.
We search for truth by nature.
And if we don’t bring out that core nature the secondary drives come:
The narcissism
The materialism
The violence
The aggression.
They say fear and hate are the two sides of the same coin.
I think, as a philosopher, we must ingrain truth into certain aspects of our journey.
We need to address the concept of truth.
My thesis for this thread: Truth and philosophy are intertwined into a Gordian knot.
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Then, to arrive at ‘truth,’ don’t we need to ‘think outside the box?’ Should we simply, as did Indiana Jones, draw our pistol and shoot the assassin coming at us with drawn scimitar? Just how do we arrive at ‘truth?’
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[size=113]There is a philosophical discipline, that I think has some merit, that conceives, becoming the Truth.
It’s an extremely difficult philosophy but, if you are able to bring your philosophy to life, can be an extremely rewording philosophy. While living this philosophy, small t; small truth is pretty much a necessary requirement.
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One does not search or respect truth. One wants first to live his life, and then he notices that this is being hindered or forbidden, then he starts to compare the opinions and rules in the world, and then he notices that his opinion is truer than those which are hindering him.
One finds (that) the truth in himself (because it) is forbidden! Truth is the not lived life.
“Nitimur in vetitum: (We strive for the forbidden) in this sign my philosophy will triumph one day, for what one has forbidden so far as a matter of principle has always been—truth alone.” - Nietzsche
As Aristotle said, “truthfulness can not be learned, one is born with it” and it is directly dependent on one’s health.
One can only seek knowledge. There s no truth in itself.
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I understand there to be two truths;
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One is a result of an intellectual function.
The other is a function of observation.
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Sure, things can be explained but they have to exist first.
Which truths are philosophers explaining? Why a love for those truths?
The scientific man chose the most predictable truths, the dancer chooses the most unpredictable truths.
The actual purpose of philosophy is not so much “truth”, but wisdom, aka “rationality”.
It just so happens that truth is needed so as to deduce wisdom and rationality.
And deducing it is only important for those who have no faith in the others who have already been down that road.
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