On 5/21/2022 9:45 AM, Charlie M. 1958 wrote:
> tedw <
tedwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does the Truth about anything really matter?
>>
>> Or maybe
>>
>> Can anything be true without being approved by an AA committee?
> truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they
> are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which
> have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.
> We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from; for as yet we
> have heard only of the obligation imposed by society that it should exist:
> to be truthful means using the customary metaphors in moral terms: the
> obligation to lie according to a fixed convention, to lie herd-like in a
> style obligatory for all. . . .
> Friedrich Nietzsche, The Portable Nietzsche