Gesundheit

What if whatever you currently believe is true is just thoughts and not actually true? What if your metaphysics aren't as good as you think they are? What if you actually take some things on faith?

lol right?! I'm learning the language in case I go there sometime in the future. I'd finished the first level of the course a few weeks ago. Maybe.

Yeah that's called solipsism.

It's not that either. Both of these perspectives are not actually true. The truth here is that you're either believing that an external world exists independent of you or you're not. Whether it actually exist or not isn't something that you can prove or disprove by any means. We don't know (i.e. we don't directly experience it), we just assume, and that's fine and enough for me. The external world can only exist as thoughts for the human being. If you'd experience it you'd die.

@Carl-Richard No. I will say it one more time. There's no such thing as a relative truth. A thing is either 100% true, or not true at all. While countless other things do, truth does not exist in shades or degrees. To make things simpler, let's say I robbed a bank. The absolute truth would be that I robbed the bank. It's not the same thing to say that you robbed the bank. It makes no sense to say that I am you and you are me, and therefore we robbed ourselves. Now you can get technical however you want about what happened, that I don't exist or cannot be pinpointed or whatever, but that would still not change anything. The fact that the bank was robbed by me and not you would remain true regardless.

Said the guy who talks to a camera all the time.

There are no relative truths. It makes no sense to say that something is relatively true. Anything is either 100% absolutely true, or if less than 100% then it's not absolute and therefore not true. But I see what you mean. There are two types of truth. Non-mediated (or absolute) truth, and mediated (or relative) truths. The term relative is misleading and not accurate at all.

It's a phase of release and letting go of things you used to cling to. During that phase, I would look at a garbage can and melt from its beauty. I would look at the bald head of the guy in front of me in line and melt from its beauty. It feels freeing to let go. Freedom is sweet. Imagine having a massage after an intense workout. But then after some time you're back to normal. You see everything as it is.

I don't know. I guess that I just want to feel good, or at least don't feel bad.

@Farnaby I still don't see what's healthier about that kind of relationship though. You did not give a definition for health. I would call those things you mentioned your desires out of human connection, but none of that would qualify as healthy or unhealthy in my view.

Careful. I didn't say anything about shoulds or shouldn'ts. I said beauty is a delusion but I didn't say delusion shouldn't exist. No, sir. I have exhausted beauty during the past year.

So, say that the sex life suck even if you're both seriously working at it, would you still consider that a healthy relationship?

Nope. No mistake.

Absolute truth is not an experience. It is the totality of everything-ness. You don't recognize it from experience but from reading between the lines not the lines, and from the context not the content.

It depends on how you define healthier relationships. What is a healthy relationship? Is it a universal or a personal thing? If it's personal, then what's healthy exactly in each moment of the relationship? Consider that reality itself is not static, let alone the relationship. And yet we still have the question unanswered: What is health? Is it positive emotions? Is it success? Is it a very long-term relationship? Is it marriage? Is it having kids? Is it staying together until death? What is it, really?

Not true. And according to your statement itself, it automatically becomes "not truth" because it's just a meaningless statement, so how are you attributing trueness to it?

Beauty is as much a story as that one.

Interdependent coping mechanisms.

@Roy ?? Good answer.

Aka, fearful.

What's beautiful about planets?

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Health and toxicity are purely arbitrary when it comes to psychology. People who use such terms are either deluded or trying to control and manipulate others.

Welcome to the world of delusion.