teabagg said...Surfer62 said...There is no truth, just convenient perceptions of reality.

there is truth, then there is the convenient perceptions of concensus reality...
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Reality and truth are not the same.
Reality is perception based, which comes from your life experience thus I see something one way and you see it another. Both views are realities, neither are true/truth.
A poor example, but you'll get my gist:
Person A: I go for team A. Team A won, this is good.

Person B: I go for team B. Team A won, this is bad.

Which one is this "truth" you talk of, or are they both individual (and usually collective) realities?
Truth is pure* observation. It has no sides, no divisions, no hope, no desires, no happiness or sadness, no future or past, it is selfless, blah blah blah. Everything else you think about is layer upon layer of bull****. Some layers are nice, some are not. Then again one man's heaven is another man's hell (see example).
PS - Who said nature was beautiful?
(Warning, graphic descriptions of nature. Not for the squemish.)
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/12/indonesia