In Japan, they have two concepts known as honne and tatemae. Honne is the real truth, while tatemae is the facade. Tatemae is how the truth appears on the surface, the facade, the "official story", or what we choose to tell ourselves. Corruption lives in the gap between the honne and tatemae. Government, culture, soul, mind, body... When the gap grows two wide, corrections happen. Conflict, lawsuits, wars, revolutions, disasters, depression, pain, destruction. My job is to reduce that gap down to a crack, peacefully as possible.
But as we have now seen with religion, corporate and government leadership, and even science, the illusion of purity can not only hide corruption, but encourage it.
So while I do think technical clarity is an important part of speaking honestly, I also think unceremoniousness is just as important, especially in pursuit of the truth. It keeps the ego in check and we should celebrate the raw honesty of our feelings. Often times the funniest comedians are funny just because they tell the truth. The beautiful thing about unceremonious truth is that it's untaintable because it was never serious enough to taint in the first place. So sometimes I will be ceremonious and loving, and other times I will make up words, curse, tell stupid tasteless jokes, or hate everything. I love all of me and I know what I live for. I don't care if I never get a job again for it; this is the life we are meant to live. If you want freedom, live in freedom.
Therefore, I will speak as I speak. I will explore all levels of honesty and truth here with you. I will not hide my demons because I want you to see me deal with them. I will not hide my failures because I want you to see me turn them into successes. I will show you everything I can. I guess that's what a blog is supposed to be.
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant"
- quote from someone; Lewis Grandise? Idk, I stole it from the Freakonomics documentary.
It's my destiny to be a voice in the wilderness. I've always felt like there's so much about our society that's so damn wrong. And I feel like everyone else in my generation feels it, too. I'm seeing a lot of artwork about it. But it seems like nobody really knows how to put it all into words. I think that's my job. I want to write and speak the kind of words that can change the world, and solidify a new epoch in the history of humanity. The world is thirsty for a revolution of the spirit. A revolution of truth. I want to be a part of quenching that thirst.
But there's nothing I can tell you that you don't already know. My job is to expose it within you and offer resolution. Only unified people can unify the world.
My purpose is to solve really fucking difficult existential puzzles. To discover and expose the truth. To figure out the universe. Observation and thinking are the only things I've never stopped doing. It is the most consistent part me. Ever since high school, I've always known my destiny was this, and it still is. I may have too much to share through art or video games, and if I die tomorrow, I have to know that at least some of it is out there for others to find. It's time to start sharing my discoveries, as well as my failures, as new discoveries come up and I realize old conclusions were wrong. I want this struggle to be visible. I want someone to look at all this, and know they're not stupid. Because I have discovered incredible things that I never would have if I was not open to being wrong, or comfortable with uncertainty, or if I had ever stopped pursuing the truth.
Because the greatest thing any philosopher has ever taught me was that there is validity to my thoughts.
Posts like this may come fairly often. I think a person should be constantly re-evaluating their purpose and path in life. Coming to the same conclusion means you're on the right track, but this time you understand it even more.
I will be diving head-first into into scary and impossible subjects nobody wants to talk about, from the nature of existence to abortion. There may be articles you can't read because your current understanding of things is too far removed, or you just can't stand them. Maybe you have a better solution to a problem. I'd like to hear your thoughts in the comments.
Future articles:
- How to find your destiny
- The difference between destiny and purpose
- A brief history of my discoveries; why I was not a christian, then became one, and I'm now kinda not again
- How to stimulate positive cultural progress
- Corporate culture in the United States
- The answer to the abortion debate
- The truth about knowledge
- The pursuit of truth or the pursuit of knowledge?
- The human condition, v1, v2, idk
- The truth about right and left brain thinking
- Yoga With Adriene
- Various design reports/reviews (mostly video games)
- The destruction of inductive, deductive, and logical reasoning
- Why a mirror reflects your image horizontally, but not vertically
- Brain Teasers by Sal
- Original Jokes by Sal
- My 4 Fundamental Meditations
- Good Luck Chuck Syndrome Solved (Hopefully)
- How to instantly get control of your sex drive/addiction
- or, How to stop masturbating right now
- How to stop hiccuping immediately using only your breath
- Is porn destroying sex? Is it destroying intimacy?
- or, Is porn why we all suck in bed? Is it why we suck at love?
- My creative design process
- or, How to come up with badass ideas inside any box
- My favorite quotes
- My favorite pickup lines
- My favorite everythings
- My random ideas list
- My video game ideas
- My list of 3d portfolio ideas
- How to identify real love (pursuit revised)
- What I think the future would really be like
- Maybe also some critical reviews of other futurism renditions
- Why the invention of teleportation would end our world
- My board games
- The Salvatorian Verbal Standard
- How to remove LinkedIn contacts if the piece of crap isn't working
- Why haters hate
- What I've learned about success
- The Truth About the Sexodus and Male Rights Activism
- Meta Totems and Fractal Philosophy
- How to fight
- Why I love debate, and hate arguing
- How to never get a sunburn
- How to never stink (without perfume or weird chemicals)
- My ultimate healing tea recipe
- Undervalued clear speaking tricks
- How to solve depression without drugs
- Why I don't believe in belief
- What I do believe in
- What I would do with financial freedom
- Don't listen to anyone (not even me)
- The solution to suicide
- My education philosophy
- Human Time Dilation (how to feel like a kid again, where a week feels like a year, but you're not bored)
- Are antiquated Intellectual Property beliefs starving our future?
- Where I think the information age is heading
- SalvatoreArt.com
- My crazy dances
My Inspirations:
Freakonomics (Dubner & Levitt)
Oscar Wilde
Sherlock
Hemingway
Banksy
The Joker, but also Batman
Christopher Nolan
Socrates
Nietzsche
Sartre
Kierkegaard
Kant
Descartes
Derrida
Zeno
Cyanide & Happiness
The Office
Ricky Gervais
JRR Tolkien
Fight Club
John Oliver
Stephen Colbert
Steve Jobs
I intend to speak frankly, clearly, and concisely. I also intend to litter this blog with original art. I'm not giving up this time.
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Friday, March 27, 2015
Thursday, August 13, 2009
The Destroyer of Truth
**Editor's note: This is a writing from a very young, egotistical version of me, before I actually found what I would now call "the" truth. It's embarrassing for me to have this on my blog now. But I leave it here out of some sense of honesty. This is where I genuinely was at the time this was written. It was a very important milestone in my personal development and search for the truth. It remains here for your observation.**
MY DESTINY
My destiny is to discover and expose the truth. I thought this meant I was a seeker of truth. So I have been seeking. I have found, and I have told. I have discovered Truth itself and exposed it to you in this article. In seeking the truth I have discovered that in order to expose truth, all truth must be destroyed. In being a seeker of truth, I cannot be a seeker of truth. I am a destroyer of truth.
I am the destroyer of truth; the reaper of ego souls; the destruction of your reality; the reset button on your existence; a warrior for peace; your entropy of enlightenment; the samurai of sin; an epistemological apostle; the reclaimer of reticence; the slayer of life; a natural-born killer; the master of disaster; the private of prejudice; I am that which you fear the worst and want the most. I am the truth.
Truth lies within the self. It is within people. To discover and expose the truth, I have to cut down your concepts and egos like a masterful samurai, exposing the light within yourself. It is my destiny to tear through the flesh of your ego, rip out your heart, and show it to you. It might sound sinister, but such is the nature of the destruction of worlds. The destruction of truth.
I declare Jihad on truth itself. By being a masterful killer, I can be a great savior. The name "Salvatore" means "the savior" in Italian; maybe the writing's on the wall. I believe this is aim to be akin to the pinnacle of the Samurai code and the foundation of Aikido. What needs to be destroyed is not the person, but the ego. Aikidoka show their attackers peace by cutting through their attacker's ego with the strength and spirit of the samurai. They wish no harm upon their attackers, only peace and love. With every attempted strike, the Aikidoka simply blends, flows, and harmlessly mutes the attack. In numerology, 7 is the number of Truth, Spirituality, and Intellect. My life path number, my destiny, is 7. It would seem I am the 7Samurai. Similar to Akira Kurosawa's "7 Samurai", I protect the sanctity of reality.
I will still do my analysis and truth-seeking (someday I will get around to actually posting it), but don't be surprised if every one ends up being an illustration of how ridiculous our system of thought really is. To expose the truth beneath, I will destroy the truth that is. But the very words I will use to find the truth are incapable of telling the truth. This is why it must be destroyed. This is who I am: the destroyer of truth.
To those who seek truth:
I am coming for you. Haha, just kidding. The truth is that which has no attached no image to it. It was before knowledge, when you simply existed with it. Mental concepts are unnecessary and unrelated to truth. Truth IS. It is not created. It is not found. It is. Truth is not something you find, it is something you are. If you want truth, you remove the assumptions, the egos, the denial, the images, the concepts, and then... you be.
For further reading, check out Buddhism. This stuff is old news to them, and they have mastered the art. They call it "Karma".
In my quest for truth I have discovered some interesting things. My destiny is to discover and expose the truth. Now I am facing the truth of my destiny at a new level of understanding. Until recently, I thought it that meant I was a seeker of truth...
To find truth, one must cut through that which is untrue, but held to be true. A truth must be destroyed. So to find truth, one must destroy truth. Truth is what lies beneath that which is untrue.
"Learning is finding out what you already know." - Richard Bach
To learn something new is not to create an entirely new truth within your mind. Learning is the conscious and verbal identification of something that was there all along. It is the connection of words to things that you already know. Learning is really learning how to categorize and conceptualize the world in the ways everyone else does, and then memorizing what words people typically use to represent those concepts. When you learned about gravity, you weren't learning gravity. You learned to compartmentalize this part of nature into one concept, and you learned that people call that concept "gravity". But you already knew gravity itself. Gravity itself is truth. "Gravity", the concept, is not true. These concepts we create in the mind are supposed to be the equivalent of reality, but they never actually match up. They can only be "good enough". Such is the nature of science, and traditional philosophy. We are constantly doing research (scientific or otherwise) to perfect our models of understanding; to make our concepts more precise; to get our mental images as close to reality as possible. But we'll never find the truth that way. We're going in the wrong direction. The truth is what was before, when you attached no image to it and simply existed with it. It's gravity. Who needs the image when you've got the real thing? To know the secrets of the universe, you do not perfect your concepts of it... you quiet the mind and listen. Even Yoda, when he was training Luke to become a Jedi, said to him, "You must unlearn what you have learned."
"Thou shalt worship no other God before me; thou shalt not create and worship idols." -God
What do you think God means by this? Obviously it says a lot of things, but I think he's telling us to honor reality. We are cursed because we worship our words, our mental concepts. We take the concepts we create, project them on our surroundings, and then choose to experience and observe our projection instead of the reality. We assume that what we are looking at is a chair, and then make all kinds of other assumptions based on that one. We assume that we know what we're looking at, but that very ego is the reason we can't know. Our entire lives we are consumed by images. We worship ourselves and our egos rather than God; reality; truth. In an infinite universe, we are trapped in a structure with definitions, walls, and limitations. If truth is God, then God is what exists prior to learning, assumptions, ego, denial, and mental imagery. You are in the presence of God when you are truly present.
"Thou shalt not create and worship idols" is a sin because once you have begun your worship, confiding in your assumptions, you will have to pay the price to return to God. Getting out of them and returning to heaven can be a painful process. You will have to pass through the hell you created to return to God. Projections and assumptions are fueled by denial. We want to believe that something is true. But belief is not power... If you have to believe it's true, then you know it's not true. You know that you have to try in order to believe it. Truth is your natural effortless freedom. God is heaven. You'll have to face those very things you are in denial about in order to cleanse and return to God. "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off" -Gloria Steinhem. To get out of these projections and be with God, the truth, we have to face those very truths we are running away from--those things we are in denial about. Truth is the scariest thing known to man. Some say that all fear is a fear of the truth. The egos must die, and killing an ego can be like cutting of one of your own arms. Everything you think you are, and everything you think the world is, is an ego. We live through our egos. And so to kill those egos will feel like killing the self. It may feel like your entire life is crumbling. The universe as you know it may be nothing but suffering and destruction. Anybody having apocalyptic thoughts at this point? Do not worry--the real you cannot be destroyed. Your soul is invincible. Return to yourself, return to innocence, return to God, return to Truth. The trick, the lesson, is to not create that world in the first place. Reality exists without such effort.
Perhaps the biggest ego (and the biggest loss to be) is the belief that we can know things. We must admit that we know nothing. By example, yes, like Socrates--there's always an exception to any fact. But also the concept of knowledge itself. The idea that we can know things is false. Knowledge is an idea. An image. And it must die as well. To find truth, one must face the fact that nothing can ever truly be "known". The knowledge of truth is not fact or concept; it is existence itself. It is the natural state of being. Honor that, and you honor God.
My all time favorite quote: "There is a difference between truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense." -Wilhelm Wexler from the movie "The International", with conceptual credit to Oscar Wilde.
This quote says it all. It's the problem with logical thought, concepts, and seeking the truth itself. Truth does not have to make sense to be true. Your mind does not have to have a concept of something in order for it to be true. In doing so, we are not discovering truth, but creating stories. Real truth sits right in front of you, in reality, every day.
The truth is that there is no truth in the way we know it. In the way we know it, it is only ego. Stories. Real truth is what is left over when ego is cut. Truth is only known to the mind that is quiet and at peace. Mental concepts are so loud. Truth itself is one of those mental concepts. And it is no exception: nothing can ever truly (lol) match this projection. So as long as I am seeking "the truth" I will never find it...
To find truth, one must cut through that which is untrue, but held to be true. A truth must be destroyed. So to find truth, one must destroy truth. Truth is what lies beneath that which is untrue.
"Learning is finding out what you already know." - Richard Bach
To learn something new is not to create an entirely new truth within your mind. Learning is the conscious and verbal identification of something that was there all along. It is the connection of words to things that you already know. Learning is really learning how to categorize and conceptualize the world in the ways everyone else does, and then memorizing what words people typically use to represent those concepts. When you learned about gravity, you weren't learning gravity. You learned to compartmentalize this part of nature into one concept, and you learned that people call that concept "gravity". But you already knew gravity itself. Gravity itself is truth. "Gravity", the concept, is not true. These concepts we create in the mind are supposed to be the equivalent of reality, but they never actually match up. They can only be "good enough". Such is the nature of science, and traditional philosophy. We are constantly doing research (scientific or otherwise) to perfect our models of understanding; to make our concepts more precise; to get our mental images as close to reality as possible. But we'll never find the truth that way. We're going in the wrong direction. The truth is what was before, when you attached no image to it and simply existed with it. It's gravity. Who needs the image when you've got the real thing? To know the secrets of the universe, you do not perfect your concepts of it... you quiet the mind and listen. Even Yoda, when he was training Luke to become a Jedi, said to him, "You must unlearn what you have learned."
"Thou shalt worship no other God before me; thou shalt not create and worship idols." -God
What do you think God means by this? Obviously it says a lot of things, but I think he's telling us to honor reality. We are cursed because we worship our words, our mental concepts. We take the concepts we create, project them on our surroundings, and then choose to experience and observe our projection instead of the reality. We assume that what we are looking at is a chair, and then make all kinds of other assumptions based on that one. We assume that we know what we're looking at, but that very ego is the reason we can't know. Our entire lives we are consumed by images. We worship ourselves and our egos rather than God; reality; truth. In an infinite universe, we are trapped in a structure with definitions, walls, and limitations. If truth is God, then God is what exists prior to learning, assumptions, ego, denial, and mental imagery. You are in the presence of God when you are truly present.
"Thou shalt not create and worship idols" is a sin because once you have begun your worship, confiding in your assumptions, you will have to pay the price to return to God. Getting out of them and returning to heaven can be a painful process. You will have to pass through the hell you created to return to God. Projections and assumptions are fueled by denial. We want to believe that something is true. But belief is not power... If you have to believe it's true, then you know it's not true. You know that you have to try in order to believe it. Truth is your natural effortless freedom. God is heaven. You'll have to face those very things you are in denial about in order to cleanse and return to God. "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off" -Gloria Steinhem. To get out of these projections and be with God, the truth, we have to face those very truths we are running away from--those things we are in denial about. Truth is the scariest thing known to man. Some say that all fear is a fear of the truth. The egos must die, and killing an ego can be like cutting of one of your own arms. Everything you think you are, and everything you think the world is, is an ego. We live through our egos. And so to kill those egos will feel like killing the self. It may feel like your entire life is crumbling. The universe as you know it may be nothing but suffering and destruction. Anybody having apocalyptic thoughts at this point? Do not worry--the real you cannot be destroyed. Your soul is invincible. Return to yourself, return to innocence, return to God, return to Truth. The trick, the lesson, is to not create that world in the first place. Reality exists without such effort.
Perhaps the biggest ego (and the biggest loss to be) is the belief that we can know things. We must admit that we know nothing. By example, yes, like Socrates--there's always an exception to any fact. But also the concept of knowledge itself. The idea that we can know things is false. Knowledge is an idea. An image. And it must die as well. To find truth, one must face the fact that nothing can ever truly be "known". The knowledge of truth is not fact or concept; it is existence itself. It is the natural state of being. Honor that, and you honor God.
My all time favorite quote: "There is a difference between truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense." -Wilhelm Wexler from the movie "The International", with conceptual credit to Oscar Wilde.
This quote says it all. It's the problem with logical thought, concepts, and seeking the truth itself. Truth does not have to make sense to be true. Your mind does not have to have a concept of something in order for it to be true. In doing so, we are not discovering truth, but creating stories. Real truth sits right in front of you, in reality, every day.
The truth is that there is no truth in the way we know it. In the way we know it, it is only ego. Stories. Real truth is what is left over when ego is cut. Truth is only known to the mind that is quiet and at peace. Mental concepts are so loud. Truth itself is one of those mental concepts. And it is no exception: nothing can ever truly (lol) match this projection. So as long as I am seeking "the truth" I will never find it...
MY DESTINY
My destiny is to discover and expose the truth. I thought this meant I was a seeker of truth. So I have been seeking. I have found, and I have told. I have discovered Truth itself and exposed it to you in this article. In seeking the truth I have discovered that in order to expose truth, all truth must be destroyed. In being a seeker of truth, I cannot be a seeker of truth. I am a destroyer of truth.
I am the destroyer of truth; the reaper of ego souls; the destruction of your reality; the reset button on your existence; a warrior for peace; your entropy of enlightenment; the samurai of sin; an epistemological apostle; the reclaimer of reticence; the slayer of life; a natural-born killer; the master of disaster; the private of prejudice; I am that which you fear the worst and want the most. I am the truth.
Truth lies within the self. It is within people. To discover and expose the truth, I have to cut down your concepts and egos like a masterful samurai, exposing the light within yourself. It is my destiny to tear through the flesh of your ego, rip out your heart, and show it to you. It might sound sinister, but such is the nature of the destruction of worlds. The destruction of truth.
I declare Jihad on truth itself. By being a masterful killer, I can be a great savior. The name "Salvatore" means "the savior" in Italian; maybe the writing's on the wall. I believe this is aim to be akin to the pinnacle of the Samurai code and the foundation of Aikido. What needs to be destroyed is not the person, but the ego. Aikidoka show their attackers peace by cutting through their attacker's ego with the strength and spirit of the samurai. They wish no harm upon their attackers, only peace and love. With every attempted strike, the Aikidoka simply blends, flows, and harmlessly mutes the attack. In numerology, 7 is the number of Truth, Spirituality, and Intellect. My life path number, my destiny, is 7. It would seem I am the 7Samurai. Similar to Akira Kurosawa's "7 Samurai", I protect the sanctity of reality.
I will still do my analysis and truth-seeking (someday I will get around to actually posting it), but don't be surprised if every one ends up being an illustration of how ridiculous our system of thought really is. To expose the truth beneath, I will destroy the truth that is. But the very words I will use to find the truth are incapable of telling the truth. This is why it must be destroyed. This is who I am: the destroyer of truth.
To those who seek truth:
I am coming for you. Haha, just kidding. The truth is that which has no attached no image to it. It was before knowledge, when you simply existed with it. Mental concepts are unnecessary and unrelated to truth. Truth IS. It is not created. It is not found. It is. Truth is not something you find, it is something you are. If you want truth, you remove the assumptions, the egos, the denial, the images, the concepts, and then... you be.
For further reading, check out Buddhism. This stuff is old news to them, and they have mastered the art. They call it "Karma".
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