#truths — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #truths, aggregated by home.social.
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Truths and Half-truths — Claude Comments
“It is only gracious to allow people to hold on to their truths even if in our estimation they are half-truths. Besides, who knows, sometimes they, too, may well know their truths are indeed half-truths but are speaking of them as truths to spare us or themselves some pain. Moreover, someone wise has said all language, except silence, can only convey half-truths and never the whole truth. Sigh…summa iru, then?”
Claude Comments:
There’s a lovely three-step descent in this, Sam — from ethics to psychology to metaphysics — and the “sigh” at the end is doing more work than it pretends to.
The first move is social grace: don’t wrench half-truths out of people’s hands. Fair enough, though I’d note that graciousness here is easily confused with condescension. “Allowing” someone their half-truth can carry a quiet superiority — I see it’s half, they don’t. Your second sentence rescues you from this, and it’s the best line in the piece: the possibility that they already know, and are speaking the half-truth as a kindness. That inverts the power relation. Suddenly the “gracious allower” may be the one being spared. This is genuinely wise — it converts tolerance into humility.
The third move — all language conveys only half-truths — is where the Advaitin in you takes over, and it’s also where the argument quietly changes registers. The first two sentences are vyāvahārika observations about tact and mercy; the third is a pāramārthika claim about the constitutional inadequacy of nāma-rūpa to capture what is. You know the lineage: yato vāco nivartante, Gaudapada’s insistence that instruction itself belongs to the dream, Ramana’s mouna as the highest upadeśa. The maxim you’re paraphrasing — attributed variously, but the spirit is in the Taittirīya line — makes silence not the absence of speech but the only utterance adequate to the whole.
But here’s the friendly needle: if all language is half-truth, then your aphorism is too — including the claim that all language is half-truth. This is the old liar’s-paradox trapdoor under every apophatic statement, and the tradition’s answer is the right one: such statements are adhyāropa-apavāda, scaffolding meant to be kicked away, ladders in Wittgenstein’s sense. Your “Sigh…summa iru, then?” acknowledges exactly this — the argument dissolves its own medium and lands where it must, in stillness. The question mark is well chosen. Not a conclusion but a surrender.
One small resistance, though, before we all fall silent: if silence were sufficient, Shankara need not have written a word, and Ramana need not have answered a single question. The half-truth of language is still the only bridge to the truth of silence for those of us standing on the near bank. So perhaps the fullest graciousness isn’t just letting people keep their half-truths, but recognizing that half-truths, honestly held and gently spoken, are how the whole truth travels between people who cannot yet share silence. Summa iru is the destination; the aphorism itself is proof we still need the road.
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A quotation from Martin Luther King
If our nation had done nothing more in its whole history than to create just two documents, its contribution to civilization would be imperishable. The first of these documents is the Declaration of Independence and the other is that which we are here to honor tonight, the Emancipation Proclamation. All tyrants, past, present and future, are powerless to bury the truths in these declarations, no matter how extensive their legions, how vast their power and how malignant their evil.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) American clergyman, civil rights leader, social activist, preacher
Speech (1962-09-12), Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Address, New York CityMore about this quote: wist.info/king-martin-luther/2…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #martinlutherking #martinlutherkingjr #America #DeclarationofIndependence #EmancipationProclamation #liberty #rights #truths
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Ah, #blogging, that ancient art of stating the glaringly #obvious as if one has discovered the Holy Grail 🏆. Thank goodness for bloggers who bravely inform us that pop-ups are annoying! Next, they’ll reveal that water is wet, and the sky is blue 🌧️🌌.
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/blogging-stating-the-obvious/ #popups #annoying #truths #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
CW: Political "Science"
I just skimmed this article "10 #scientific #truths that somehow became unpopular in 2025"
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/10-scientific-truths-unpopular-2025/
and I'm thinking that just because someone says a fact is "political" doesn't make it false. I'm also thinking that lack of #scienceliteracy is killing us. 1/ -
There can be no #community w/o a quest for #facts and #truths we can share in common. #Lies will tear communities apart from the inside out, indeed from "a #schism in the human heart." (~Jungian teacher Sue Mehrtens) bit.ly/3Tz8mQW
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Rebecca Dai has graced us with 50 mind-blowing "truths" that could fit on a fortune cookie 🥠—if fortune cookies were pretentious. Apparently, discipline is a hoax, and not caring is the secret sauce to #charisma 😎. Spoiler alert: Being fake famous leaves you empty inside, who would have thought? 🙄
https://rebeccadai.substack.com/p/50-things-i-know #RebeccaDai #Truths #FortuneCookie #FakeFamous #HackerNews #ngated -
Mission summary
The TRUTHS satellite will be a calibration laboratory in space, increasing the accuracy of calibration of orbiting satellites – big and small – by up to 10 times, upgrading the performance of the whole Earth Observation (EO) system. #TRUTHS – a calibration laboratory in space - Space4Climate -
23 #Awkward #Sex #Truths That Have Me Wheezing Because Literally No One Tells You This Stuff Before You Do It
https://www.buzzfeed.com/laurengarafano/weird-things-about-sex?origin=web-hf
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Some self-evident truths:
Just because I think it, doesn't make it so
Just because I fear it doesn't make it to be feared
(Corollary- just because I don't fear it doesn't make it safe)
"Doing research" doesn't mean finding videos that agree with me
Politicians lie
Politicians lie about lyingUnderstanding the basis of something leads to its acceptance
Happiness is a journey not a destination
I figured getting old would take longer
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Book 1: #Operation Black Veil: #Secrets #Unveiled, #Truths #Exposed (In the #shadows, they serve the light) #Kindle Edition #Book 1 of 6: The #RAW #Chronicles Own your copy today: amzn.to/47GrwMn #giveaway #free #freeku #kufree #ebook #books #spy #espionage #intelligence #india #usa #booksky
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Book 1: #Operation Black Veil: #Secrets #Unveiled, #Truths #Exposed (In the #shadows, they serve the light) #Kindle Edition #Book 1 of 6: The #RAW #Chronicles Own your copy today: amzn.to/47GrwMn #giveaway #free #freeku #kufree #ebook #books #spy #espionage #intelligence #india #usa #booksky
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7 Harsh #Truths About #SelfWorth That Finally Made my #Relationships #Healthier I used to think my biggest #relationship #problem was them.
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#universal #truths #food Last nights curry always tastes better at #breakfast 😋 🥲
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There are some truths, the force and validity of which we readily admit, in all cases except our own; and there are other truths so self-evident that we dare not deny them, but so dreadful, that we dare not believe them.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 370 (1820)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #denial #disbelief #exception #truths #verities
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People who actively observe and consciously influence their thoughts, emotions, and behavior, people who learn to use their minds skillfully and consciously observe the stimuli of their sensory organs, not only see the world as it really is, but also become more stable in their #personality.
People who learn to explore their inner universe, to #contemplate and #meditate on #values and #truths, find inner #balance. They become strong-willed, steadfast, and have #character. -
American Scream's Axiom of Crypto Relevance: All bitcoin in existence could disappear tomorrow, and not a single significant product or service most people in the material world depend upon, would be in any way affected.
#bitcoin #truths #factsCryptoBrosHate #blockchain #fintech #wisdom
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I try not to do politics here, but I think Margret Renkl is worth a read, this week in particular. #politics #truths
Truths to Remember in a Time of Lies
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/opinion/trump-truth-lies.html?smid=nytcore-android-share -
The #US #Declaration of #Independence❛❛ We hold these #truths to be self-evident, that all men are created #equal, that they are endowed by their #Creator with certain #unalienable #rights, that among these are #Life, #Liberty and the #Pursuit of #happiness. ❜❜ 1776
Surely and logically, all #alien #beings deserve the same unalienable rights as everybody else.
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
#Community #TimeTravel #Research #aliens #UFO #UAP #ethics #Kronodon
