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So deep, and relevant. What is truth really? If we have a truth and call it feelings, is it still truth? Maybe there is a black hole of truth out there that draws all of the inconvenient and otherwise uncomfortable truth we like to avoid. Wow, thank you.

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Thank you so much for reading :) + it's so fun to think abt bc u can argue there's a degree of truth to feelings but then we have to start thinking abt what it means for something to be more true vs less true... thank u for commenting too!!

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Yes! And how others perceive or validate your feelings.

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thank you for writing this

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thank u for reading this :)

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It's a really good to point about how traditional notions of truth are closely linked to monotheism. Spinoza was really explicit about this, although some would call him an atheist. Some of it is just semantics, he was explicitly against a personal God, the big father figure residing in the clouds. For Spinoza, God was essentially just nature and the two were one and the same.

I used to do a lot of philosophy reading groups, different ones with different crowds showing up. I joined this group where we read Wittgenstein and Nietzsche. It was heavy on the STEM kids. This guy, probably the biggest STEMlord of them all, a fervent atheist, once said something like "Mathematics is the language of God," and I looked at him completely puzzled and wondered how he didn't see the obvious contradiction. I realized he'd basically just replaced all the old notions around the Christian God with reason and truth, imported most of the same framework along with it. You could make a case he was unwittingly speedrunning Kant.

Anyhow, great essay. Keep up the good work.

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Yeah!!! + surprisingly a lot of scientists are religious and choose science as a field of study bc they believe the scientific method to be a way to better understand Gods creations. It's definitely an interesting juxtaposition since so often we see science and religion as opposites when there is argument for them to coexist (to an extent) very similar to the idea of "God created the integers, all the rest is the work of man" (Kronecker)

+ ty for all the sources now I'm super interested in reading Spinoza and Wittgenstein + checking out more Nietzsche and Kant :)!!!!

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I'm no mathematician, heh. It's a big misconception that accounts are number crunchers. The math is basic arithmetic, although wrapping your head around how a general ledger works takes some energy. The hard part is the rules and how to apply them. Taxes are laws, taking a percentage as simple, deciding how to count something or what is included is comically complicated.

This is the first I'd heard of Kronecker. My dad was an engineer and a Lutheran. I definitely get what you are trying to say and I've been there....

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wenyi, i am always left here in the trenches after reading a new post of yours. And this time it is not different in only that i am now a sobbing mess and i don’t know what beautifully crafted sentence of yours that started it. But i KNOW it’s all of it

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Hahaha thank u so so much :)

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"You lonesome one, you go the way of the creating one: a God will you create for yourself out of your seven devils!"

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Nietzsche 🙂‍↕️

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I loved this!!!

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Thank u so much :)!!

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🥇

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🫡

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How do you even do this 💔💔💔insane writing skills

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hahaha thank u so so much :)

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THE AXIS OF TRUTH TIME AND GOD OMG I CANT

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Haha tysm <3

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crying screaming throwing up

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HELPPPPP I LOVE THIS

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I don’t really know what this one is either but I devoured it, thank you! As for the subject ranking, I’d put Art as closest to the truth. Every time.

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Haha thank u :) + that's an interesting way to interpret truth it rlly does come down to the way we define words + language sometimes

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