What harsh truth made you believe everything about life is a lie?

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That nothing we ever do really amounts to anything.

The world distracts you with its solidity and seeming permanence. But it’s nothing more than a mirage. nothing you build will outlast you. Most of the time, you don’t even have to die first.

The only thing you can build that will outlast you is yourself. This is ultimately why I believe in a soul, in the afterlife. You can’t even discover solid truth. There is always truth behind the truth. I believe I possess the most solid understanding of the true nature of existence of anyone that has ever existed on earth. But one of the foundational truths is that there’s always more hiding behind what you know.

I see even the Buddhist conception of impermanence as overly dogmatic. The truth hiding behind that is that the human mind will turn impermanence into the very hard truth that the doctrine seeks to dispel. So I generally don’t talk about impermanence and generally hold truth, anybody’s truth, as real even though I usually forget about it the second I lose contact with it.

Impermanence is deeper than the human mind can comprehend. So much so that the divine will specifically create the illusion of permanence just so that we don’t have to deal with it all the time. Being an illusion, it never outlasts the person. But this fact is fundamental to the entire concept of reality. Reality rests on the human believing in it. It’s as solid as the belief is.

If you believe in something, that something can be real. What you believed before can be wrong tomorrow, replaced by what you believe today. Your whole life is a set of lies you have been telling yourself, lies that the whole universe conspired to make true for you, and as soon as you realize this, then you can substitute better lies in their place.

Lies they will remain, because you can’t handle truth. Only cooler and more interesting lies.