current mp3: simple and clean - utada hikaru

"platonic" is wrong. i've decided that. platonic means ideal, perfect. and yet a platonic relationship does not involve sex. how the hell is that ideal? i'm pretty sure that most of the population would agree that saying a relationship is "platonic" is a little ironic.

i've decided i disagree with plato. so, as far as i understand it, this is what plato believes:

There is a perfect, abstract form of everything present in the "real" world. Human beings evolve to see that perfect form. This is reality. The ultimate evolution of humans will enable them to perceive the same thing. Reality is an abstraction. Thus, there is one, supreme, real definition of justice, beauty, etcetera; there is one true, perfect form for a stapler, shirt, etcetera.

now, the problem i see with this is, it denies a concrete reality, yet it simplifies abstractions into concreteness. it states that there is only ONE perfect form of anything. and, that the reason things are not perceived as this in our "real" world, is because of our perceptions and the differences we create in our minds. so, does this mean that every table is truly the same, and it is only our perceptions that differ? so, why do we all see approximately the same thing. one table has four legs, another has three. any person could tell you which was which. so does this mean that there are separate perfect forms for three- and four-legged tables? are all tables the same color, size, shape? i don't buy it.

anyways, this is what i've decided i believe: there is an exact, independent reality. when humans perceive it, we interpret it differently, but as well as our senses can allow. since we are all the same species, so have the same sensory organs, and we have grown up in the same culture, we see approximately the same things. a poverty-stricken chinese kid would probably see a different thing than we would when he looked at a bowl of rice, or a woman, or a mountain. so, there is an independent, single reality. each person might interpret it differently. this reality is the absolute truth, and anything that exists within it, unaltered by our perspective, is the absolute truth. but, there is another truth that changes for each person, based on their experiences, ideas, perspective. this truth is not absolute, since there can only be one absolute truth. but it is still truth, and it is a truth that exists within the person. so, there are an infinite number of definitions of abstract concepts, that all exist for each person. so, two kinds of truth, a single absolute truth independent of our perspective, and a general truth that is individual to each person.

eh, that's enough of my yammering. tok is going to mess with my head, i can tell. it's already gotten me thinking philosophically. no! stop before it's too late! if i start using my brain regularly it'll get used to thinking, and then where will i be?