Nietzsche

Truth. I have spent a good part of my life searching for truth in various forms. An accident of my upbringing first caused me to question not religion, but the people who follow it. Truth became a buried treasure with no map. However this is a little more complex an issue than Nietzsche writes about, if you can believe that, in Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral sense.
First lets look at the word Nonmoral so that we can determine just what Nietzsche is talking about. Nonmoral is classified by philosophers as being absent from moral behavior, that is to say they have no impact of acting in a good or in a less desirable way. That means that the kind of truth he is describing here is universal. It is accepted everywhere by everyone that has the ability to comprehend, and in fact is self-sufficient apart from mankind. Meaning oxygen is the same to fish who takes it from the water, as to a man who breathes it upon land. That is a universal truth.
Nietzsche is also questioning where the drive to find the truth came from. He brings this up because of two things.
One is Intellect. It is the tool given to us by nature to help us survive. Homonids are very fragile creatures with no sharp teeth, claws, or fangs to protect it. We have a brain that can comprehend, compute, and reason. That is our weapon in this world. “For this intellect has no additional mission which would lead it beyond human life.”
The second would be ego. Have you ever noticed, about yourself or others, that people have this tendency to always place themselves in the picture. It’s as if they cannot comprehend of anything existing outside their perception. This alludes to our own individual biases and inclinations. “ And just as every porter wants to have an admirer, so even the proudest of men, the philosopher, supposes that he sees on all sides the eyes of the universe telescopically focused upon his thought and action.”
Nietzsche explains this way by calling this a survival trait as well. He means that we literally see what we want to see, or create our own worlds for the purpose of comfort ability. I on the other hand explain this way by simply erasing myself from the picture. I know it sounds impossible but a few years back I had a dream. In this dream I did not exist. In no way shape or form, on any plane of existence, was there ever a Jacob Clifton. It is definitely an experience to live a world without you in it. Ever since then I have had the unique ability to separate myself from the world around me and view all sides of things, people, and events without that voice inside that determines what you will see and think before you have even taken into account that fact that what you see might not be real.
Nietzsche also criticizes language. Now I do not attempt to get into a huge semantic argument, however Nietzsche dies raise an interesting question. “Is language the adequate expression of all realities?” This for one goes hand in hand with my experience above, but also peaks another interesting point. These things we call words are really just referents. That is the words we use are just sounds used to describe what something looks, feels, tastes, sounds, or smells LIKE. “Metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.” I suppose then that would be a suitable place to let you brain rest, after all is anything you’ve read really true, or are they useless symbols organized in such a manner that somehow derives meaning.