Monday, June 18, 2012

This one is really about thoughts; literally.

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
—Freidrich Nietzsche

So this is a quote that I ran across when I was looking at a group on Facebook called, "Truth Beckons." In all honestly, I believe that they post a lot of good things. It bothers me a bit that they flag Israel as the enemy so much, but that's another quote, and another opinion.

This quote has always meant a lot to me. I think of it as: Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and not everything is black and white. I don't believe that there is more than a handful of questions one can answer, 'yes or 'no' to. "Would you like fries with that?" is one of them; it's really very simple. You either are hungry for fries or you're not. The situations regarding 'Israel vs. Pakistan', the food industry in the United States, Malaria in Africa, and gender equality, poverty, and hunger in the world are questions that take a little more time. No matter how long people debate these situations, they simply cannot come up with a solution that makes everyone happy.

And that, my dear friends, is why this quote has literally no power when stating an opinion. When trying to instill your opinion on anything, saying this quote is like whipping out the white flag (placed conveniently in your pocket of course) and waving it in your 'opponent's' face. You are stating your opinion as fact—that's why you are arguing with this said person—but this quote says that your opinion isn't fact. It's only another interpretation.

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