What is true, then?

A lot of people and students ask, "If you're so skeptical, then what is true?"

So here we go. I'm going to add to this list all day.

1. Reality

2. Other people

3. Continued identity

4. Canine intellect

5. Driving causes a good amount of our current modern diseases.

With that said. The next will be a little more detailed.

Let's see.

Truth is not simple. It is complex. If you look at it simply you get in trouble and annoy complex thinkers.

Most people are simple. They desire more than anything to be sure rather than to doubt. Doubting is a lot of work.

Most people think they are complex. This clashes with the previous truth and it causes most of the problems in our modern world. From perceived complexity, most people think they can make effective judgments and will not be dissuaded from this. This results in conversations and actions that are self-destructive.

One out of 215,760 people is actually an ethics professor. But if you listen to people talking you would think it is 215,760 out of 215,760, which is a pretty big mistake. Not only is it a cause of most of the simple and destructive ethical ideas, it really, really annoys people who are in fact ethics professors.

Most people have either not heard of or despise Ayn Rand. This position is rooted in the problems stated above and the one to follow. It is a bad decision and very simple.

Most people get their truth from rote interaction with the world. They listen to others, memorize, and follow formulae. Again, doesn't work at all. Rote learning is designed to fill the brain, not fill the ear of the person sitting next to you. Rote cannot be used to form or translate truth, it just doesn't serve that purpose. And yet, humans can't figure this out at all. They constantly memorize crap, spit it back out exactly as it was memorized, and fail to see that there is a gap - the entire real process of learning - that they skipped over in order to sound like what they think an ethic professor sounds like.

Most ethics professors are as dumb as the people impersonating them. To this end, when dumb simple people go to learn ethics, they learn it by rote.

The problems people have in discussions are infrequently about disagreements regarding truth. Which is to say: one does not have one truth and the other an opposing truth, and they hash it out. Even though this is exactly what they think they're doing in their simple rote minds, they are not. They are almost always arguing about separate things, the extent of each being overly-simple, rote, and useless. These separate things, once examined, aren't related to each other and aren't usually even opposed, and for the most part are incoherent. A simple example: "I believe in God." "I do not believe in God." This is not a real discussion. It is two people talking to themselves, believing they are taking to another. And are simply beginning a debate at the end. There is no way to assert either position if you don't know what the word God means. And humans, to a one, do not. Not because they haven't worked hard enough at it, but because it is not really a word, it is a sophistic and contradictory group of meaningless letters. Three letters to be exact. The same three used in a different order that form the word dog, a real word.

Flowers are dumb.

The face one shows to the world, that is giving, altruistic, patient and tolerant has nothing to do with the real face and the real actions. The problem is not that people are contradictions, it is that they don't have the tools to see themselves as false. Even though they are the ones doing it, they don't seem to see the contradiction because their reasoning mind is so clouded with bad contradictor arguments that self-knowledge is already too much to deal with. If we all could just see the Freudian "superego" that defines us on one level and the difference between it and the more intentional us that has no intention of loaning you money, or picking you up from the airport, or giving good advice. If we saw this, the process could begin. But humans are infants. Don't shoot the messenger.

The truth is that once we believe in reality, I mean really understand it, we are okay with rational self-interest because it is mandatory and unchangeable. Once we get the simple notion of survival and self-preservation, we begin to see a normal world in which everyone did it and, in turn, was of use to others in the only way they can be. Then the goals of the fake altruist world we be somewhat obtainable, though that irony is way too much for humans right now.

Truth is, procreation is a bad idea. The only way to defend it is to muddle up the language and the premises, like in the God discussion, and continue from there.

Professional sports are not a guy thing. For that matter, it isn't a girl thing either. It is a mandatory metaphor for war that is part of the human spirit and makeup and reality. To belittle it is to welcome the alternative, actually going out and killing everyone that doesn't agree with your patriot bullshit.

Patriotism, for that matter, is a disease. America was a pinnacle at its formation of thinking about how questioning your nation is the best way to make it work. A dialectical political invention is, or was, the best chance humans have for not killing each other. So patriotism for the most part … bad. Truth is, the patriotism we have today is fetishism. It is a sick perverted rote cultish behavior that makes tribal animals feel better so that they can continue to belittle professional sports and to isolate themselves from the global community of ideas.