Nothing is True...

Since the start of this year, I've been more or less forced to learn a new subject known as Theory of Knowledge and yes, it is intriguing but not necessarily useful. The subject talks about critical thinking and how we know what we know and whether or not it is true. For instance, the famous picture of a boy sleeping between the graves of his parents turns out to be no more than a hoax. The media blasted around with the news surrounding the picture and how cruel things in Syria was and how this little child lost his parents, and more crap around it, but in the end, it was revealed to be a lie. This particular set of news is revealed to be a lie and the fact that it is was believed to the moment of the truth is something that not many people realize is the power of the media.

Now, the media is a known tool for spreading news, ideas and mostly lies, but how persuasive is the media? The answer - Very! This goes with proof of course, one hanging in the above paragraph but the other lies within this picture


This picture is as good of a representation of what the media actually is. The media controls what they show you, the viewers, to subliminally control the way you think about that situation. By showing you the small narrow corridor of the supposedly horrible situation, they make you think of the negatives of it.

So, what is the point of me rambling on the media? 

It is just for me to say that Nothing is True...

Now, the full quote is actually "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted" from the Assassin's Creed game, however, in this post, I would like to focus primarily on the fact that "Nothing is True..." While looking at the above paragraphs and thinking that maybe all I'm referring to is the media, that is not true. What I want to focus on is the unreliability of everything we know. Starting off the media as the midpoint, I would like to avoid more complex ideas but briefly touch on it. A simple question of the origin of maths and whether it is true or not should suffice the thought process of this.

Having known the idea of closed-mindedness, it is best to think that no matter how open-minded you think you are, there is most likely a biased decision due to other factors that I don't really want to talk about. The depth of philosophical thinking that comes with the idea that "Nothing is true..." follows a duality pattern much like the paradox of "This statement is false". One can never truly understand the depth of such paradox.

Hence, what id the purpose of "Nothing is True..."?

The purpose is to have no other purpose than to be a reminder to the world that not everything we see, hear, or touch is true. There are obvious things that are not true such as lies and so on, but the recipients of these words can interpret them in whichever way they want, being as low as to observe the world and think whether they should believe it or not or the depths of the absolute denial of all things existing.

However, having said most of these and not exploring the idea more, I urge anybody that reads this to stop for a moment, release all worldly bounds and think. The depths of this world is much deeper than you know and that everything in this world has a substance behind it. A story might have much more background to it than one could ever observe but with a little intuition and effort, one can uncover much more than one expected.

It is not too much of an effort to think, with imagination that the world is actually the infinite possibility of lies. Nothing is true in this world and nothing will be. So, the limit of the world is only the amount of effort you wish to put into it, so be creative,be positive but carry out life knowing "Nothing is True..."