Truth Too Is Moderate

 

I have long felt the middle is the way, that the smart, the beautiful, the actual, the spiritual, the moral, the loving and the true are something like perfect Platonic Ideals, while literally, typically falling short of being Immortal Forms, while remaining elusive, unattainable and not existent as perfected Forms. So to promise that our truth claims are just such accomplished, final answers to everything, that they are perfect, flawless, unchanging and immortal concepts is to lie or be mistaken, and the zealous pursuit of certain truth becomes a moral and political nightmare if practiced. God does not at all exhort us feverishly to chase after absolute truth or moral perfection. To do so is both unwise, irrational and wicked.

For it is literally impossible to make some proposition perfect and incomparable, something which is definable at best as a version of perfect truth, with the real deal remaining an ineffable and unattainable truthful statement. What is proffered by humans can only be what their intellects can produce, not more than what their limited consciousness is capable of constructing and producing. Our definitions can never be utterly precise, totally comprehensive and expressive, exact and complete. Rather a very well crafted, clear human proposition at best is approximately so or true—and that is an impressive accomplishment to come so far—as far as one can go rationally and verbally, and that laudable success should be our modest, sensible, achievable ideal and objective to settle for attainable moderate truth, to make as perfect, clear and concise as possible what is at bottom ineffable, not totally definable, for all true statements are mottled, approximations.

In this blog entry, my point is that what is true is also influenced, shaped and revealed through the metaphysical reality and input called moderation.

It seems to me that what is true is much or mostly governed by the correspondence theory of truth, how things are in the natural world. But, truth pluralism and the coherence theory of truth must be included in our pantheon of illuminative truth theories. This is required so that we may arrive at or come near to the truth through also by traveling along other truth corridors, recording what we observe there and learn, by seeing the world through the lenses of other, competing theories of truth, including those more imbued with skepticism, relativism, antirealism and subjectivism that are rejected by realists loyal to the correspondence theory of truth, still the most fruitful and promising of the theories of truth.

Truth should no longer be pursued and sought after as done by those that insist upon all statements meet a standard of being absolutely and necessarily true in all places and at all times, with no viable, contending, substantive or contradictory examples or scientific counterexamples to cast doubt upon these statements.

If we insist upon absolute truth as our measure, then we will have to reject moderate, approximate truth (So we will not be productive at working towards ultimate truth, a goal likely infinitely vast, complex, with its goal post ever retreating. Moderate truth is enough for humans to search for. Its treasure is well worth seeking, accumulating and growing in our efforts to grow our understanding.) or truths which are inductively derived through experimentation, which are probably true, but the knower does not know 100% for sure if he is correct forever in all places at all times.

It seems that lying or being deluded or in great error are all intimately connected to what is on the other side of this epistemological coin, an unrealistic devotion to an absolute standard of truth being met with each presented statement, or that statement unless so asserting infallible, inerrant, complete certainty is to be disregarded by an audience of critics out of hand, even before the merits are logically, linguistically, semantically and empirically tested. To demand from the presenter statements of infallible certainty guarantees we cannot grow our knowledge, for the standard not only does not exist or likely does not exist in reality, but we cannot provide statements of such magnificent excellent, description or accuracy. For that is not how the world works, and such truth statements cannot be discovered or made by humans of limited intelligence.

Somehow seeking absolute truth often becomes a corrupt enterprise. In part it is linked to fanaticism, groupism, true believers and mass movements, with their bogus but absolutist assertions. They claim to possess absolute truth which they don’t but they act as if they do possess it. They believe what they say also.

To seek perfection and absolute truth is to lie to be irrational and evil. To lie is to be evil.

To a great extent, it is a legitimate enterprise to seek absolute truth and get as close as possible, knowing humbly that even omniscient or near omniscient God does not know, may not know, nor even desires to seek absolute truth because it does not exist, or if it does, it is not moral or liberating, and to seek too ardently after it is to corrode the self, and to turn evil, bitter, resentful and hateful.

If God cannot ascertain absolute truth or could but refuses to pursue it, then why should of humans of much more modest intelligence seek epistemological, absolute, pure certainty or truth. Seeking after or making claims for absolute truth is an illegitimate enterprise for humans to undertake, for they so invested must necessarily fail and turn corrupt and fell.

A Contemporary Luddite

 

As a congenital and habitual loner, I do not socialize much, nor go out very much. Still, my wife wanted me to accompany her on Memorial Day (5/25/26) to go see the movie Pressure at an AMC movie theater showing in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and I said yes. Great movie, by the way.

My wife ordered the tickets online, and concessions too.

I have not been to a movie theater for perhaps 15 years, so this digital experience without paper ticket stubs for the gatekeeper to tear up, and paying cash for concessions was shockingly new to me. I felt overwhelmed and unable to function.

I had this strange feeling of being a Luddite—not opposed to the advances and changes per se—but feeling completely lost and unable to function in this drastically changed movie-going world.

I did not fit into this world, nor know how to act. I could not have succeeded in that world without my wife’s intervention.

Eric Hoffer has written in detail about how adults feel misfitted when they encountered a changed world, one which they are ill-trained and ill-equipped to function.

I suspect the world will change even faster going forward, and coping and adapting will be an ever greater challenge, perhaps a game at which only the young and the adult individuator is versatile and flexible enough to keep pace.

The Positive Mode Of Power

 

My contention is that there are two essential modes of power functioning in society, and likely somehow are also operating in nature and supernature too, pointing to the existence of objective morality out there beyond individual or collective moral codes.

When a virtuous person is a person of integrity and love, generally in thought, word and deed, regardless of believing God, or what moral code which she proclaims that guides her living, the positive mode of power, or the power of powerfulness, is the power model she exhibits and displays as she conducts herself daily in the world. This mode of power, which she adheres too in practice, is the power love and loving, abusing none and allow none to abuse her; tyrannizing none and allowing none to tyrannize her, self-realizing and working for a good divinity, all whilst esteeming and loving herself, the origin of her inclination and tendency to esteem and love others.

She may sacrifice her happiness out of the duty to provide care for others, but mostly, she does her duty and seek her personal happiness, all the while teaching the young that if they emulate her, they should be able to flourish and be self-sufficient, growing cosmos, and the kingdom of God in this world.

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Evil, be it social, personal, natural or supernatural, is really all about hating the self, hating others, hating God, hating the world, and wishing ill, destruction, pain, death and unhappiness upon all. The evil man operates and wields his negative mode of power, the power of powerlessness, a satanic model of power relations at work in the world.

Under this power model, he tyrannizes, victimizes and abuses those below in the various hierarchical structures (governmental, businesses, social, academic) permeating society those below him and is tyrannized, victimized and abused by those above him.

Under such a wicked personal, social and political dispensation, all are fiercely loyal to the system which owns them, to which they are addicted. They do not individuate as commanded and exhorted to do their their individualistic good deity.

He is a joiner, a pack-dweller who lives second-handedly. He seeks to grow the power of his sick arrangement for Satan and Lera, who above all else tirelessly seek and scheme to grow their way of life, or I should say death, and this useful fool, their flying monkey either unintentionally or militantly strive to grow their malevolent kingdom.

Do We Learn?

 

I do not wish to harrow poor Jordan Peterson when is he is ailing and suffering so grievously, but though suffering is indeed much of what human existing is about, it is not the whole story, and I am not sure it ennobles most sufferers, unless they were high-minded, virtuous Stoics before the onset of whatever sickness, affliction, loss or tragedy which now troubles them.

Suffering can humble, educate, enlighten, deepen, and exalt the foolish, the rationalizer, the proud, if he is open to change, open to seeing his failures and flaws as they are now revealed, without crowd affirmation, without surrounding noise, with disguises shorn and tossed off.

My observation is that suffering is painful for all sufferers, but garbage in, garbage out. If the sufferer, before his affliction occurred, was not seeking the painful truth about himself and his flaws, working assiduously, repeatedly to improve himself intellectually, morally and spiritually, then suffering likely will not make him smarter, reformed, or more compassionate. It might make him instead more resentful, bitter and out to revenge himself upon the world and people that have made it hard for him.

However, for most people, nonindividuating mediocrities stumbling along on an even keel until their Maker calls them home, suffering will not much lift them up or tear them down farther. After or deep into the experienced crisis, they will be about the same as they were, for suffering for them is just a thing that happened, not a poignant opportunity to reflect, be reborn, to lead an elevated life going forward.

Arm The People

 

We do not have a gun problem (in America I add for context), we have a mental health problem. That approximately was the statement posted of Facebook, today, 5/21/26. That meme is true but not sufficiently explanatory.

We do not have enough guns in private hands in America. We do not have enough guns in private hands, and there should be very few state, federal or local laws passed which infringe upon this fundamental, natural right to bears arms, a right granted Americans and all earthlings from God, and which should be constitutionally included in all constitutions of all countries, to keep government ruling classes anywhere from depriving their citizens of the right to bear arms, to keep governments limited in size and restricting its power over the people, to prevent elites from capturing government authority, so they can tyrannically abuse and enslave the masses anywhere, any longer.

For an anarchist individuator super-class, upper middle class, citizenry, populated by supercitizens, to function and succeed in building and keeping freedom, and law and order smoothly and interconnectedly operating in our civil society, this civilian militia of about 200 million Americans must be armed to the teeth. When the people are armed, united and resolved, remaining free from tyrants and rulers is doable, for this will work, and it can.

we must teach the young to maverize, so they are psychologically, morally and spiritually healthy so they can have access to guns, without turning on society.

God requires the masses to be armed, holy soldiers of De, and government needs to keep its hands off of their citizens’ gun rights, period, full stop.

Not Tempted To Hurt Others

 

There cannot be a significant decline in the crushing scope and sheer amount of evil running rampant in the world until women learn to lead moral lives, more moral than they do now. Women are 51% of the population and if they are moral and happy, that bodes well for all. How can the lot of women be improved?

If women can learn to be and act assertive and feisty, refusing to be victimized by anyone, that would be a moral revolution in society, a transformation of earthquake potential, the outcome of which none can predict, but things generally should be better for the next generation of women.

If women cannot be victimized and refuse to be victimized and they make it stick, then that many women do not need to victimize someone else to rid themselves of their anger and resentment, and thus that much less evil occurs in the world, and those weaker, poorer or outcast are automatically and significantly safer for none need to dump on them to feel better about themselves.

Real Feminism

 

Feminism, on deepest and most substantive level, is not much about proposing that a woman’s career is more important that her being married, childbearing or being a homemaker. This all matters, but I believe that feminism must be defined fundamentally as personal human liberation, which as specifically applicable to women, their natures, their needs, their ambitions and expectations.

My take is that no person, of any gender persuasion or sexual biology is liberated unless she insists that she only will live by a code of moral decency, to victimize none, and allow no one to victimize oneself. Only she who abuses none and suffers abuse from none is a free person, a free woman.

Tyranny cannot abide where people are liberated in all way.