As I use the words:
Actions cannot be wrong.
Behaviors cannot be wrong.
Events cannot be wrong.
It's incoherent (i.e. meaningless) to say something like, "The hurricane that happened yesterday is wrong!"
For something to be "wrong"/"incorrect", it has to be untrue (i.e. false). Only propositions (i.e. sentences with truth values) can be true or untrue. The claim that a hurricane happened yesterday could be true (i.e. meaning a hurricane did not really happen yesterday), but the event itself (i.e. the hurricane itself) cannot be wrong, because it's an event not a sentence with a truth value.
In other words, a sentence such as the following could be false (a.k.a. wrong/untrue/incorrect):
- "2 + 2 = 5"
- "My cat ate some of my dog's food on July 5th, 2023."
That's it. That's the only kind of thing that has a truth value, meaning that is the only kind of thing that can be untrue, incorrect, or 'wrong'.
That's not to say all sentences have truth values and that all sentences can be wrong or right.
No, rather, many sentences are also neither true nor false. A proposition (i.e. a sentence with a truth value) is a special type of sentence. Not all sentences are propositions (i.e. sentences with truth values).
For an example of a sentence that doesn't have a truth value, please consider Noam Chomsky's famous sentence:
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
That sentence is meaningless (a.k.a. incoherent) so it doesn't have a truth. It cannot be wrong nor right.
Similarly, any kind of subjective sentence or opinion (e.g. "ice cream tastes good") does not have a truth value, at least not in and of itself.
Understanding all of the above concepts is key to practicing the teachings of my book, "In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All", namely the principle of fully and unconditionally accepting that which you do not control and cannot change, with an acceptance so full and unconditional it warrants the word love.
One who follows the teachings of my book won't ever look at an event (e.g. a hurricane that is happening) and resentfully say, "That thing that happened is wrong! That unchangeable aspect of reality as a timeless whole is wrong!"
Ironically, as my book proves in detail and this post explains briefly, those kind of sentences are themselves wrong (i.e. untrue, or at least incoherent and thus meaningless). It's untrue that a hurricane is untrue (a.k.a. wrong) because events (e.g. hurricanes) cannot be untrue. The claim that the event happened could be untrue, in that that would mean the would-be event didn't actually happen, but the event itself cannot be untrue.
Reality is right. Reality is always inexorably right. Reality cannot be wrong.
The universe doesn't miscalculate. If it exists, it exists. It is what it is. The truth is right, by definition. Reality is right, by definition.
One following the teachings of my book will never ever look at an event that actually happened or is happening and say unaccepting nonsense like, "that event that happened is wrong!" No, someone following the teachings of my book will just accept and, if they say anything of it, say the simple truth: "That event happened." / "A hurricane is happening." / "That hurricane happened." / "A hurricane happened yesterday." / etc.
The one following the teachings of my book will just acknowledge, notice, and possibly point out that something is the way it is, descriptively without any judgementalism, resentment, or other unacceptance/unforgiveness. They will just observe or describe how reality actually is, fully accepting that the truth is what it is.
One following the teachings of my book will tend to only be acceptingly descriptive when they talk about reality (a.k.a. the world, the universe, the whole of all creation, etc.). They will simply lovingly and acceptingly notice and/or say what it is.
They won't be prescriptive towards unchangeable reality, which includes at least any part of reality that is out of their control. They won't say things like, "The past should be different than it unchangeably is!", "The external present should be different than it unchangeably is", or "Reality as a timeless unchanging whole should be different than it unchangingly is.", or "The universe as a 4D timeless unchanging eternal whole should be different than it unchangingly is.
They won't say, "If there is a God, he (or she or it) did a bad job. I'd create a better world than this if I was the god. I'd create a better reality than this if I was god."
It's not about whether you believe in a literal god or not (hence the word "if" in the previous sentence). Rather, it's about whether you think the truth could be righter than it is, meaning whether you think eternal reality can be righter than it eternally is, meaning whether you think objective reality can be righter, truer, or objectively better than it objectively (and thus timelessly) is--all of which would make absolutely no sense and be utterly incoherent paradoxical.
This is not religion or faith. It is simple logic. It is eyes-closed truth upon which all logical people from all religions including non-religion can easily agree, and in a sense have to agree to remain logical, like saying two plus two equals four.
Some truths don't require evidence or faith to believe or know, and--perhaps ironically--those are the truths of which you can be most sure. They are the only ones that are fully beyond doubt. Even your eyes can deceive you and are not to be fully trusted; all evidence is doubtable and anything proven with evidence is doubtable. But eyes-closed truths are beyond even the slightest a shadow of a doubt. You don't need evidence to believe and to know with absolute certainty that two plus two equal four and that all bachelors are unmarried, and thus no evidence could shed even the slightest doubt on such things.
In other words, all logical people--whether they believe in a literal creator god, a metaphorical god, or no god at all, and no matter what their religion or lack thereof--have to admit the logically undeniable truth that reality is right, always.
With love,
Eckhart Aurelius Hughes
a.k.a. Scott
- "Nothing wrong happens, and nothing ever happens at the wrong time."
- Eckhart Aurelius Hughes
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In addition to having authored his book, In It Together, Eckhart Aurelius Hughes (a.k.a. Scott) runs a mentoring program, with a free option, that guarantees success.
