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RE: When people stop being what you thought they were…
Everyone is both right and wrong at the same time. As long as you use ideas and beliefs to point to reality, the absolute truth, they are true in that perspective. But they are wrong in that they are not the truth themselves, because the truth is beyond all concepts, words, ideas, beliefs, opinions and the mind. They only point to the truth. As long as you mistake your beliefs for the absolute truth, that can be very dangerous as there comes fanaticism, bigotry, intolerance and closemindedness. They are in reality one of the many different pointers to reality. The finger that points to the moon is not the moon itself. What do you think @atmosblack ?
Words are just symbols of symbols and therefore twice removed from reality.
On the other side, you could say that about everything we speak or write and put this as a disclaimer under each and every word. So it doesn't matter whether we write about absolute truth or relative truths, since even "absolute" and "relative" mean different things to different people.