The Apple Tree: Thoughts of an Estelle: philosophy

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Monday, August 23, 2010

That's Also True

"the purpose of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid" G.K. Chesterton

If everything is true, then nothing is true. If there is no truth, life is meaningless. We may as well go on acting on every animalistic impulse. Why bother following legal, social, or moral norms? For a nihilist, there are none. What is true? What is not subject to cultural or political change?

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"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,"

Says the LORD.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways,

And My thoughts than your thoughts.

For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,

And do not return there,

But water the earth,

And make it bring forth and bud,

That it may give seed to the sower

And bread to the eater,

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;

It shall not return to me void.

But it shall accomplish what I please,

And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it."

~Isaiah 55:8-11~