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sibelian

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25. A sprkly wibbly wobbly thing IN THE MIDDLE of soemthing else.

Wed Jun 19, 2013, 11:31 AM

Jun 2013

Somehow it's always in "the middle". Loads of people tell me so, so it must be true.

Ooooh, wait a minute. If I think the truth ISN'T in the middle but is WAY WAY WAY OVER THERE and someone else says it IS in the middle, does that mean the truth is between the middle and WAY WAY WAY OVER THERE?

Hmmmmm, conundrum.

HEY! If I just keep saying the truth is WAY WAY WAY OVER THERE and the middle people insiste on it being in "the middle", then I could probably say that they are really in the wrong, because the truth is in the middle, right? So it's between my position and theirs. So wherever they actually think the truth is is wrong because they think the truth is in the middle, they have no actual position, just a kind of... conceptual truth location system. The truth depends on what people say, not what is. So if I say the truth is WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAAAAAAAY over there, maybe I can get the middlesters to see that the truth is really WAY WAY WAY OVER THERE. Because at that point WAY WAY WAY OVER THERE is the same as the middle.

Whatever the truth is, it is always wreathed on gossamer, silken NUANCE, with sparkly highlights dancing playfully across the visage of the Truth, which can never truly be seen.

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What really is the truth now? [View all] YeahSureRight Jun 2013 OP

Of course you can never KNOW who is telling the truth. randome Jun 2013 #1

You think you know the truth when infact the only truth you know is what tey tell you YeahSureRight Jun 2013 #5

I'm less inclined to believe anything Snowden says. randome Jun 2013 #8

I know WovenGems Jun 2013 #11

What I know is that I used to operate a system that could listen, identify, locate YeahSureRight Jun 2013 #15

Thank you WovenGems Jun 2013 #18

When I left that job 20 years ago they were already starting to work YeahSureRight Jun 2013 #23

Well, we can look at the evidence of course... Pholus Jun 2013 #9

The potential for abuse is always present. randome Jun 2013 #10

The potential for abuse is mitigated if there is a forced disposal of information. Pholus Jun 2013 #13

I don't see storing numbers as 'lifelong surveillance' but yeah, I can see the need for disposal. randome Jun 2013 #17

You're damned by your associates in those "numbers" Pholus Jun 2013 #20

Truth-one side does not want the democratic party to keep the senate. Truth-Ed Markey for Senate graham4anything Jun 2013 #2

Fact: Our nation has codified a privacy ethic known as the fourth amendment. geckosfeet Jun 2013 #3

It really is just a piece of parchment with old faded words written on it now nothing more. YeahSureRight Jun 2013 #6

Then the truth is relative. geckosfeet Jun 2013 #7

Of course it is relative YeahSureRight Jun 2013 #21

Correct on al counts. geckosfeet Jun 2013 #27

Events can not be lied about -- for example if gasoline goes up then we all know KurtNYC Jun 2013 #4

I tend to not trust bought and paid for politicians. The Link Jun 2013 #12

Figure out what the worst is and imagine things are 3.4 times worse than that. el_bryanto Jun 2013 #14

2+2=4 Puzzledtraveller Jun 2013 #16

Truth is like pornography. kentuck Jun 2013 #19

My method for discerning truth - it is the polar opposite of whatever republicans say rurallib Jun 2013 #22

my bet is that the Ron Pauler is lying. n/t Whisp Jun 2013 #24

A sprkly wibbly wobbly thing IN THE MIDDLE of soemthing else. sibelian Jun 2013 #25

You may have hit upon the crux of the matter. Turbineguy Jun 2013 #26