Re: Can anyone here state a simple obvious TRUTH?.
Actually, that sentence is no longer true, since you are not currently typing that sentence.
But it was true when I was doing it.
The fact that it got recorded in history is an artifact.
Anyway, if people really want to get into it, simple obvious truths are around us all the time, but the irony is there's no way to prove it to anyone else.
And example would be the colour you see when you look at a clear sky. You call it blue, and while you perceiving that colour tone, you are perceiving that colour tone, undisputably to yourself.
Yes there's the old question that goes, "How do I know what I call blue you would call red", and the answer is, there is no way to know that.
But while you are seeing the colour you are seeing, it is an absolute fact that you are seeing the colour you are seeing.
What's funny is that, again using colour for example, people will say things like, "Colour is an illusion".
No it's not.
Lay on your back on a hill on a sunny, cloudless day such that all you can see is the sky when you look up. What you see is a pure, unadulterated field of blue.
That colour-tone is the most real thing, as real as real can be, in your vision perception. There's no way you can say while you're perceiving it that you're not perceiving it. That one of blueness is not an illusion.
It does exist.
It doesn't matter if what you would call blue others would call red. When they're perceiving that tone, they are perceiving that tone, and when you are perceiving your interpretation of that tone, you are perceiving it. You're both right, even thought if you could see into each other's minds you'd give each others' colours different names.
What's frustrating to scientists is they can't explain (yet) why that sense we call colour-tone has the *quality* that it does. They're also frustrated by how they can't prove if different people perceive the same colour a different way (although I've got an idea for a bit of research to nail that one down).
Consequently they get frustrated and give up and just say it's an illusion, but that's a cop-out, because it's definitely *not* an illusion while you're perceiving it.
Whatever it is that give colour its qualitative tone, the fact that said tone exists indisputably is one of the best hints people have that such a thing as a spiritual soul might really be.
When you perceive different frequencies of light, you don't see frequencies of light. You see a colour-tone.
Something it painting those frequencies of light with colour-tone quality.
