Conflicting truths

Now imagine a set of ideals. Now stop imagining, we'll get back to that later.

I've mentioned my theory of ideas before, in which I stated that anything that isn't matter or energy is simply an idea. And since we can't explain God, religion, the soul, consciousness, etc in terms of matter and energy, then they simply exist as ideas.

But then I just stumbled onto something even more(or maybe less) radical. Either way, it's a new idea and I'm still working on a workable answer.

If I've stated that nothing is true and everything is permitted. Just look at how contradictory the whole thing is!

Nothing is true?

Is that absolutely true?

See?

And if Buddhism teaches balance, then why are people so FULLY committed to it, if balance means half and not full.

And if monotheistic religions teach absolute truth, why isn't there just one religion with one God, and not 3 religions that have one God each. That's a math equation I'm sure God has problems with. Ideas? Sounds like bad ideas to me.

And if Karma is real, then to plants get what they deserve? Don't they have lives too? Or souls are the essence of animals? Yeah that makes perfect sense(sarcasm).

But there's always something that catches my eye. In Buddhism, I can pinpoint the exact moment. I was watching a video with my dad a year ago with the French Buddhist Matthieu Ricard. He redefined happiness for me when he separated pleasure from true happiness. Then he went on to say something like this:

When in life, we imagine happiness, we imagine perfection. We think in our minds that if we could have everything to be right, that we could obtain happiness. But this is the utter destruction of happiness. To HAVE EVERYTHING. That means if something is missing we begin to patch that up and soon everything crumbles. Happiness becomes frustration and anger.

Enough about Buddhism, I barely scratch the surface of any religion or science. I don't think I can use any power of rhetoric to make anyone believe i know more than I don about any of that. (what?)

Christianity and Islam are the two super-religions right now. This sounds like a game, but it's not. Not my place to say who's more true, my guess is as good as yours. I've discussed them so many times and got so many comments (ok, just 2 or 3) when I did. It's sometimes so tempting to bring up the subject of God just to get some decent feedback. But not today. Today I'll just say having one God sounds like a good idea, except when you use animalistic terms to describe God. And by animalistic, I mean converting what humans need to progress, socially, into something God needs to simply be God.(there was more on this earlier, but repeating myself would be... repeating myself).

Science has proven to be quite useful. It's objectivity is so appealing. But science alone cannot exist without language. And the fact that more people are more interested in the problems of science than the problems with language is scary. I don't see why language can't be a science.

And so, the problem with truth isn't that it isn't true, it's just that we can't find the right words to say it.