Little thoughts (no. 1)

Life is conflict. People argue, fight and kill each other for all kinds of reasons. Ethics, economy, faith – each area of thought is characterized by it’s own conflicts. Usually when I start to study the beliefs of the opposing factions, I come to the conclusion that both sides hold an element of a larger truth. But truth is a valuable thing and when people discover a piece, they try to make everybody believe, that it’s the only one. I’m not sure, why.

In order to protect their little piece of truth from those who hold other pieces, people construct entire forests, mountains of lies that are meant to show that their piece is all that is needed. So when you start to study an ideology, it takes lot of digging to find the true piece of the puzzle that holds all these lies together. Usually people give up before they do and simply conclude, that opponents fight and die for nothing at all.

History shows that when both factions have fought enough, they finally manage to eliminate most of the lies of the opposing side. What’s left is truth, so survivors from both sides can unite the true pieces into a new, larger piece of truth. And the cycle starts again, when they encounter another piece of truth, safely hidden in a shell of lies.

The truth seems to keep growing, which makes me think that perhaps one day, far, far in the future, someone finds out all the truth about everything. What happens then? Is thinking still possible when you know all the answers? Or does this future Mind stop in a metaphysical version of the heat death?