A Truth Beyond Question

Destiny.According to me this word is most used to blame your actions or the reasons for an unexpected turn of events. Destiny. Do you really think that there is a destiny?? Or do you think that life is just this moment, and everything you choose to do from now determines its course? Or do you think that someone above or something makes you choose what you choose?? How would you know???

There are books on Time Management, Football, Playing Cards, How to gamble and everything! (Mind you, they even have separate volumes for dummies!) I think that even life is a game of risk. We gamble here too…then why is there no book on it?? Sometimes you get confused on how you decide on things, listen to your heart or your mind? As you all know the mind is governed by logic and the heart by meager chance! Sometimes we are all bound to be stuck between the needs of the two, and when we go with what the heart wants is when we are disappointed and feel hurt, let down and are vulnerable.

I being very very wise and learned (Ha!) have found that when we listen to our mind is when we feel at ease and know that there is absolutely nothing that can go undetermined. We foresee events because of our capability to think logically. To elaborate very simply, we calculate events and their chances of it taking place. Now doesn’t that make you feel comfortable? Knowing that you know what might be most probable to take place? But there is one downside to it; there is absolutely no place for feelings. Because feelings are associated to the heart and that doesn’t tell you that you are using your mind right?

Logical explanation still does not seem to have an answer to one question. Can we know the truth? This question has been tossed around over and over again between the minds of humans. Finally Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian philosopher tries to answer this question in his book Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. It is recognized as one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century. The work contains almost no arguments as such, but rather declarative statements which are meant to be self-evident. Just like him and the other great thinkers even I try to seek a logical explanation in mankind. Look for an indisputable, unquestionable, irrefutable single truth. Ludwig used mathematics to find an answer. Why mathematics? What better tool can one use than mathematics to derive at a logical explanation? We all know that 1 and 1 is 2, THIS is an irrefutable argument. He went on and on, and reached a very terrifying conclusion. That there is no such truth that exists outside the world of Mathematics. There is no way of finding an absolute single truth, an irrefutable argument to answer the questions of mankind.

This might seem like a very abrupt ending, but I'm out of thoughts..We humans feel comfortable and rejoice in knowing something and having a logical explanation to it. But when we don't, we live in fear. And so I shall end with the words of Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must pass over in silence.”