I stared at that for at least a whole minute before I noticed his shoelaces were "Rising" then I saw the field in the background and that the "floor" was brick..
I would like to argue. If somebody were to come up to us and tell us that the sky is blue, that would be a fact, not an opinion. Then again, if somebody stopped me just to tell me that the sky was blue I would probably be very angry at them.
I think its a fact only because a majority of people have the same opinion. If someone saw the sky as green, if you think about it, it wouldn't necessarily be wrong, just a different perspective. It is only viewed as "wrong" because lots of people say so.
You know why lots of people say so? Because it is. I could be classified as an opinion, it is the correct opinion because the sky is blue. Saying the sky is green is wrong, I don't care what you're smoking. Find another person in their right mind who would say that saying the sky is green isn't a wrong statement.
What if everyone saw the sky as green one day and you continued to see it as blue? It's true humans are geared towards saying certain things and categorizing them as correct or incorrect. But right and wrong are man-made concepts. I have my own set of principles/morals that are pretty much the same as everyone else's but there really is no such thing as right or wrong. There just is. Things just exist. How we view them or manipulate them or understand them is different.
But if there is no true fact and there is no true fiction, then nothing really can wholly exist because it can't really be there. It could only exist through the perception of the human race, effectively making us god which is bullshit because we're insignificant beings who have little say in the universe around us.
I see somewhat of a religion debate but, in terms of everything existing because we perceive it so, that's pretty much correct. When you say "nothing can wholly exist because it can't really be there" Its not that its not there, it's that we may or may not be seeing the true thing. Even stating that a true thing exists or not is a man made concept. Like I said, things are just there. Whether we see them or not or how we see them is different. For example, we see not for the sole reason that we have eyeballs that are connected to our brain, but because light shines on what we look at into our eyes. In pitch black darkness, we may not be able to see anything because there is no light to reflect into our eyes, but its still there. And even then our eyes may not be strong enough to let in so much light, or some factor may come in which the object could be seen differently. I g2g. Won't respond for awhile.
Well for the sky issue, it depends on what you define as blue. If you define the thing that we see as blue, then it is not static, because humanity can change. However if you define blue as the name of the wavelength light takes when it passes through the atmosphere of the earth, 2009, 12th June, then it is static and unchangable. Unless you take the 1984 approach of the mind being the only truth. E.g. If all humans concerned say the sky is green, the sky is green. If all humans concearned say the Earth is flat, the Earth is flat. However it can be round for some purposes.
Actually, the sky ISN'T blue. It just appears that way because blue light scatters throughout it and travels through the particles and elements in the sky from the sun's light (which is made up of several different colors). Blue is just scattered out more so that's what we see most of the time, though sometimes the sky appears different colors.
