(#4608) Truth comes from the tangible, not the imaginable

      The air, ground, water, fire, these are tangible realities that exist. Our species must have differing amounts of each in order to survive. I shouldn't have to explain how we need each for us to exist. Without the air we cannot breathe therefore cannot exist. Without Earth we have no where to exist. Without the water we cannot have a body to exist in since our bodies are made up of about 60% water. Plus we cannot grow food to survive. Without fire our species would have frozen over during the several ice ages of the past. In essence, without the tangible we do not exist. The idea that we can forego any of these necessary life giving paradigms is unintelligible.
     I don't exist on concepts like religion, myth, or superstition. I exist because of the tangible. Logic dictates that to be without any of these life giving paradigms we as a species will cease to exist. So basing any truth on anything less than the tangible will only come out wrong. We as a species build from the foundation of truth and the truth is hard, cold and knowable. Yet as humans we give the truth life through our existence. We can utilize the tangible to create innovative opportunities that are grounded in fact and logic. When we go wrong it is because we put our wherewithal behind non tangible concepts that are more fiction than reality.
     To believe something that is not tangible is to believe in the hope of it not the reality of it. Now being hopeful is a positive thing but it is not a truth, it is a well wishing. I sometimes wonder how so many of us cannot distinguish reality from hope. I get that we all want something better but until we address the truth of things nothing will get batter. I am no one who ignores reality in order to pacify anything. I live in this world where the truth endures despite the many who wish to not admit it. Which makes my life and other's lives much more difficult. Because the tangible is our beginning and our ending as it is in reality so accepting that and then trying to rise above the simple becomes that much more possible.