What's the nicest truth you've found?

[cheese]

Because I feel dirty after posting in @Minuend 's thread.

 

[cheese]

I'll start:
Sometimes, humanity seems nice.
Or:

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Even after witnessing the terrifying, totalising beauty of

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what your puny literate-ape brain takes to be

infinity

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lol

humanity can still seem like a nice enough idea to try.

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(Wtf happened to nested spoilers - they suck now)

 

[gilliatt]

I would say nature law, laissez faire capitalism, invisible hand. These things work, they are universal. Intervention does not work-the false. Here is another untruth: 'Iron Law of Wages' means the price of labor is equal to its cost of production, the value of anything is found in its cost of production or reproduction. There is a lot to say on this subject, the truth is that values of goods & services, are to be found in the minds of acting men at the moment of their decisions to act or not act.

 

[dr froyd]

the nicest, or perhaps the most intriguing, truth i've found is that the fundamental axioms of certain things we learned in university - axioms that put limits on what can be done in the real world - were all wrong. I recall one specific sentence in one of the books we used, where it said "we assume x to be true for this entire book, because it is!". This wasn't limited to our curriculum - these axioms are held to be true in the entire academic field dedicated to this subject, and i've read literally hundreds of papers "proving" it is true.

in case i sound like some lunatic, this is regarding efficient-market hypothesis. Turns out the market + the academics theorizing about it, are all human, are all fallible, prone to biases, and are dead wrong about many things. Thus for anyone with enough creativity, ingenuity and guts it's all out there for the taking.

 

[Black Rose]

The spiritual is a greater reality than the material.

We will transcend.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

The nicest truth is that all things return to some kind of equilibrium and if things seem bad right now then they will gradually move towards less bad assuming a reasonable view of what's 'bad'.

Another nice truth is that things that seem 100% impossible at the beginning seem 1% less impossible after moving 1% towards achieving them. Then after some long time of patient, unrelenting and daily grind they become possible and the goal moves to another seemingly impossible thing.

I can't be a pessimist as long as I'm allowed to grind away at my problems and make 1% improvements.

 

[birdsnestfern]

Your divinity comes to you, you don't need to seek it outside yourself. Just be still and feel it. True whether on this side or in the spirit world.

 

[cheese]

The nicest truth is that all things return to some kind of equilibrium and if things seem bad right now then they will gradually move towards less bad assuming a reasonable view of what's 'bad'.

Another nice truth is that things that seem 100% impossible at the beginning seem 1% less impossible after moving 1% towards achieving them. Then after some long time of patient, unrelenting and daily grind they become possible and the goal moves to another seemingly impossible thing.

I can't be a pessimist as long as I'm allowed to grind away at my problems and make 1% improvements.

Excellent point, and always worth remembering.

the nicest, or perhaps the most intriguing, truth i've found is that the fundamental axioms of certain things we learned in university - axioms that put limits on what can be done in the real world - were all wrong. I recall one specific sentence in one of the books we used, where it said "we assume x to be true for this entire book, because it is!". This wasn't limited to our curriculum - these axioms are held to be true in the entire academic field dedicated to this subject, and i've read literally hundreds of papers "proving" it is true.

in case i sound like some lunatic, this is regarding efficient-market hypothesis. Turns out the market + the academics theorizing about it, are all human, are all fallible, prone to biases, and are dead wrong about many things. Thus for anyone with enough creativity, ingenuity and guts it's all out there for the taking.

This is interesting. I wouldn't personally class this as a "nice" truth - it's sort of worrying to me how much of our world seems built on sand while we convince everyone it isn't - but I can see how it opens up a lot of creative potential.

 

[Old Things]

This is a two-edged sword, but I think most of the time, people believe what they say they believe. You often don't have to psychoanalyze to know what someone believes. Oftentimes, they will just tell you. This is both relieving and terrifying at the same time. It is relieving because it means people are generally more honest about their beliefs than they initially appear. On the other hand, it is terrifying because some people believe some really messed up stuff.

Kanye West is a good example of this. He says he loves Hitler.

 

[Siouxsie]

Eeryone´s fucked up, one way or another. We are all living our personal hell. It brings me peace.

 

[ZenRaiden]

That humans are not governed by jungle laws. That this sort of cynicism has its limitations.

That there are people out there that understand the importance of nature and green politics aren't actually helping. That they are willing to do the actual work for a better world and not get eaten up by bullshit.