I gotta love the title of this post.
But anyways, whenever I listen to music and lay down in my bed and get on my laptop, I get in the weirdest mood. It's always really philosophical and deep, and I don't know why. Which is why my blog posts tend to be similar on that front.
I was sitting here, all philosophical and everything and then thought "Let's be real" and write a blog post.
Then, I asked myself a classical philosophical question "What is real?". I once again arrive at the answer: Nothing is real. I guess this is epistemology. I guess I'm an epistemological nihilist. I'm not an object (I forget the big word for this) Metaphysical? Maybe. I am not a metaphysical nihilist though. That means that I believe that "things" exist, like objects, like the bed I am in. At least in my mind. And that is another philosophical doctrine, starting with an "s" that I forget.
But still, let me get on with my point.
Nothing exists. Nothing is real.
I think everybody has a completely different perspective on everything, but somehow, we get a collective view. Let me use the ole' colour debate of "Do we all see the same colour?"
I used to think, "Of course we do!" But then, you never can know.
Like I see Red, Orange, green, yellow, etc. And so do you. We can both point to something and say "That is yellow". But what if when you see something yellow, it is a colour I cannot imagine, and my yellow, you cannot imagine. But since we would use an object like a banana, to make collective views of the same colour and say "well the banana is yellow? Right? Yep. So we both see "Yellow"".
But if your yellow is simply something I cannot see, and I see it as my yellow, then does anything really exist?
If we all have a different perspective on everything, then does any one thing exist, correctly?
Let's take something like gravity. We as a scientific society can agree that we have gravity, things are pulled inwards, which is why things do not float. But is that even a thing? We can't see it, it just happens. So it is not a thing.
We can't see atoms either, yet that is the scientific explanation for the world, we use.
We can't see god either, but I don't believe in god to begin with, but I still can easily put it in this category.
The same thing with colour, could be with scent. Like the way I smell a bag of garbage, may be different, but collectively we can agree that it smells bad.
But I think it is weird, how when you are at a store smelling candles with a friend, you prefer one scent over another scent. I think that has to do with you past, like if it reminds you of a pleasant memory, even if you don't remember the memory. But they both smell good, but you and your friends like different candles.
Again, this is the same with colours. Some colours are more visually pleasing to others.
So... do you know what that proves? How one thing can never be better than another. Since nobody agrees with anything, nothing is better than another. One candle smell cannot be better than another, since not everyone agrees.
And this is where democracy gets me every time. We live in a democratic society where we vote in our representative government, and majority rules in the voting process. But does that make whoever is voted in, better than who lost? No. Some people still voted for them. So why are they not in office? Democracy is the one thing that simply does not fit into our society, because again, using my candle scent example, we can collectively agree that not one candle is better than another, so how can one candidate be better than another. Even if you get a group of 100 people to smell 3 candles, and 45% of people agree one is the best, it still does not make it better, in general. Maybe more people think it is better, but does more people thinking it is better, actually make it better? No. Because 55% of people still like one of the 2 other candles that is left over still. So to those people, the other is better.
Did you follow that?
Back to my point. Nothing exists, since we cannot be sure that we all see the same things. That may be an extremist opinion, but... I don't know. Things exist, just not collective things can exist.
It is hard to explain my thought process, or why I believe this. But I think this is pretty good for being written in less than 15 minutes at 9:30 in the morning.
But anyways, whenever I listen to music and lay down in my bed and get on my laptop, I get in the weirdest mood. It's always really philosophical and deep, and I don't know why. Which is why my blog posts tend to be similar on that front.
I was sitting here, all philosophical and everything and then thought "Let's be real" and write a blog post.
Then, I asked myself a classical philosophical question "What is real?". I once again arrive at the answer: Nothing is real. I guess this is epistemology. I guess I'm an epistemological nihilist. I'm not an object (I forget the big word for this) Metaphysical? Maybe. I am not a metaphysical nihilist though. That means that I believe that "things" exist, like objects, like the bed I am in. At least in my mind. And that is another philosophical doctrine, starting with an "s" that I forget.
But still, let me get on with my point.
Nothing exists. Nothing is real.
I think everybody has a completely different perspective on everything, but somehow, we get a collective view. Let me use the ole' colour debate of "Do we all see the same colour?"
I used to think, "Of course we do!" But then, you never can know.
Like I see Red, Orange, green, yellow, etc. And so do you. We can both point to something and say "That is yellow". But what if when you see something yellow, it is a colour I cannot imagine, and my yellow, you cannot imagine. But since we would use an object like a banana, to make collective views of the same colour and say "well the banana is yellow? Right? Yep. So we both see "Yellow"".
But if your yellow is simply something I cannot see, and I see it as my yellow, then does anything really exist?
If we all have a different perspective on everything, then does any one thing exist, correctly?
Let's take something like gravity. We as a scientific society can agree that we have gravity, things are pulled inwards, which is why things do not float. But is that even a thing? We can't see it, it just happens. So it is not a thing.
We can't see atoms either, yet that is the scientific explanation for the world, we use.
We can't see god either, but I don't believe in god to begin with, but I still can easily put it in this category.
The same thing with colour, could be with scent. Like the way I smell a bag of garbage, may be different, but collectively we can agree that it smells bad.
But I think it is weird, how when you are at a store smelling candles with a friend, you prefer one scent over another scent. I think that has to do with you past, like if it reminds you of a pleasant memory, even if you don't remember the memory. But they both smell good, but you and your friends like different candles.
Again, this is the same with colours. Some colours are more visually pleasing to others.
So... do you know what that proves? How one thing can never be better than another. Since nobody agrees with anything, nothing is better than another. One candle smell cannot be better than another, since not everyone agrees.
And this is where democracy gets me every time. We live in a democratic society where we vote in our representative government, and majority rules in the voting process. But does that make whoever is voted in, better than who lost? No. Some people still voted for them. So why are they not in office? Democracy is the one thing that simply does not fit into our society, because again, using my candle scent example, we can collectively agree that not one candle is better than another, so how can one candidate be better than another. Even if you get a group of 100 people to smell 3 candles, and 45% of people agree one is the best, it still does not make it better, in general. Maybe more people think it is better, but does more people thinking it is better, actually make it better? No. Because 55% of people still like one of the 2 other candles that is left over still. So to those people, the other is better.
Did you follow that?
Back to my point. Nothing exists, since we cannot be sure that we all see the same things. That may be an extremist opinion, but... I don't know. Things exist, just not collective things can exist.
It is hard to explain my thought process, or why I believe this. But I think this is pretty good for being written in less than 15 minutes at 9:30 in the morning.
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