Truth is an odd thing. Here's a thought I've had stuck in my head for a while: "Truth is only whatever is useful", it's interesting because it seems like the only truth that is objective. It's vague for sure but that vagueness is it's strength, it can't be easily shattered with throwing conundrums at it. Usefulness in this case would count both negative and positive usefulness. Only when something is completely neutral to existence do I consider it untrue.

There is probably someone who does know some way of circumventing my basic truth axiom and I ask for everyone to try I like hearing other people's thoughts because they might give perspective I don't have. Even if I'm hard headed as hell. Hearing other people's thoughts might make me think.

And the concept itself is useful because it can be used to filter the world I observe and have to think about, makes it easier to accept other people's views. Since usefulness is personal, everyone has their own personal truths. An objective view of subjectivity. Which I think has some humor to it.

I used to be annoyed by religion and faith because it seemed like it was a lie. I didn't really know why they existed. Now with some perspective I can say that the religions people have might not be my truth, but it doesn't matter if it's useful to the people who do believe in whatever they do. Religion isn't really for me because I'm not really satisfied with believing other people's truths. But I'm glad at least someone is able to live their life happily, despite or even because of the lies they believe.

Truth being subjective isn't really a new thought though, but it somehow never really seemed like a real statement. If we exist, or rather, since we can think, wouldn't that mean there is some base truth to everything? And after some thinking this is the base truth I came across, truth of no truth. Even if some day someone finds the mathematical formula to why we perceive existence, that would still only be a subjective truth, because someone is experiencing it. You could even say that the truth of usefulness is subjective because someone came up with it, and perhaps it is to you, but to me it is the only objective truth.

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Sometimes we get stuck exploring the truth of the world around us while ignoring the usefulness, for example, debates about how the world works on the quantum level or string theory or the how, why and if the big bang happened. But none of these debates are really useful on their own. The origin of debates started from trying to convince crowds of people about your truths. But why should anyone give a shit about the quantum if they are never going to interact with it, or put effort into solving it. I'm not saying stop searching for the truth of the world, but do at least once in a while have the thought of: "Is this useful or harmful? or just a neutral untruth?"

And sure, I'll certainly never know what will be useful to you in the future, so do learn all the truths you can, they might some day be useful. Who knows, if you get teleported to the stone age at least you'll know how to make electricity, and can explain the big bang to the cavemen and start a cult, or maybe you'll just write a book about such a situation. :)

Here's a few paradoxes to throw at my truth.

Whenever someone next asks you "if a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to witness it, did that really happen?" you can just answer: no. the tree isn't useful or harmful, it is neutral because no one knew about it nor will ever know about it according to the scenario. So the whole concept is simply a lie.

"this sentence is false" is this sentence true? Yes. The sentence is a true because it is useful in explaining paradoxes. Or perhaps the sentence is false because it isn't useful to you. Finally you get to decide whether the sentence was true or false.

"Are we just a brain that exists for a few microseconds to hallucinate existence only to dissapear afterwards?" the question is a lie.