12 ramadhan 1426

“there are no facts, only interpretations.” --friedrich nietzsche

the ol' nihilist himself, weighing in, as only he could, on a subjective analysis of the above directive often found in the only bar worth a damn here in gangneung, bumpin'...

according to this quote from nietzsche, there is not room for objectivity in life, only subjectivity--and what one sees from a certain perspective at a given time in a given situation.

as we plod through ramadhan, let's speak for a quick moment on fundamentalism and its relevance with religion.

it would seem, on the surface, that religious fundamentalism would be at odds with nietzsche's assertion; yet, an examination--and it doesn't even have to a deeper one--makes it clear that nearly all religion is subject to this, as i've dubbed it, "friedrich's irrefutable law of existence."

if you disagree, then how do you explain the sects of islam and christianity that claim to follow literally the words of the quran and bible, respectively, as opposed to other parts of each respective religion that follow the alleged hallowed words of each book either with different literal viewpoints or with more tolerant, less "literal" point of view? which interpretation is the most correct? well, people die every all over the world in defense of these points that are more correct than the points against which they're fighting.

there are nearly no occasions in one's life where something isn't a fact, but only subject to one's interpretation of what is seen, heard, felt, smelled, tasted, or sensed. because there are not two organisms on earth engineered in the exact same way, every sense is open to debate or discussion, open to subjectivity or interpretation--nothing is bound to the truth, to being a fact, to being the literal version of anything with no chance of its being anything else but that ONE thing.

i don't know about you, but this certainly makes life exciting, doesn't it? it opens one's eyes and puts interpretations of other cultures--as well as interpretations of one's own--into a different light, eh?