Saturday, June 16, 2012

The Paradox


The only truth is that there is no truth. But if I said this is the truth, you will not believe it, since you will tend to think that there is no truth, since I said that the only truth is that there is no truth. So while you are thinking that there is no truth, you are actually thinking the truth. But by thinking so you will think that you disproved my truth, but at the same time, by thinking so you will be proving the truth of what I said. So even though the truth proved to you will remain unproved in your head, because you think there is no truth, the very thought itself is the truth. 

But if you say that what I said is the truth, you will contradict yourself because I said that there is no truth in actuality. So when I say the truth, at the very same time you believe it to be truth as well as  you also believe that it is not a truth, because that is what I actually said. The truth is the non-truth at the same time, while the non-truth is the truth at the same time.

So does the truth depend upon your thinking? Or does it depend upon what is there apart from your thinking? What I wish to ask here is, if the truth is truth because you subjectively believe it to be the truth or whether the truth is an objective truth that is independent of your subjective belief of its existence? 

If what I said is something objective, does it mean that I perceived something objective as objective, or it is my subjective belief that the truth is objective? If there is atleast one objective truth that is not dependent on our subjective belief, is it capable of our objective appreciation or will it be subject to our subjective belief that it is an objective truth? 

If assuming that there is an objective truth, I tend to challenge that there is no such objective truth, then it follows from my subjective belief that there is no objective truth and that is why I wish to challenge an objective truth. However, is such an objective truth independently existent of my subjective belief of its existence?  If I call it an objective truth independent of my beliefs, is not it pursuant to my subjective belief that it is objective? 

Is truth truly objective or is it subjective?

Perhaps the objective takes birth from subjective while at the same time dies at the hand of the latter? Or the subjective takes birth from the objective and at the same time dies at the hand of the latter. The very thing that birthed it is the cause of its death and the very cause of its death is what will birth it?
Regardless of it, whatever it be, we can call it for the time being as The Paradox.

Life is a paradox.
It is contained within itself.
The Truth.

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