Wisdom Builder

Three Tidbit Stories

Topic:

Plants

From Photosynthesis to Forests

MODE:

Speed: 1.00

Plants.

3 random tidbit stories in about 3 minutes.

Idea 1.

A Plants Term.

Philosophy of Fiction.

Philosophy of Fiction studies how stories relate to reality. Its central dichotomy explores truth in fiction and alignment with reality in nonfiction.

In a bigger sense, it’s the study of how invented stories relate to reality, truth, meaning, and human life.

Philosophy of Fiction is a traditional phrase. In TST, it explores the tension between truth-seeking and story-making. Fiction does not report what happened the way history or journalism does, but it is not merely false. Fiction recombines real impressions into imagined stories that can reveal psychological, symbolic, moral, and emotional truths. It asks how invented characters, worlds, plots, and symbols can help us understand reality without being mistaken for reality itself.

Truth in Fiction

A novel, myth, film, parable, or imagined world can reveal psychological, moral, symbolic, and emotional truth even though the events did not happen.

Falsehoods in Non-Fiction

A memoir, documentary, history, news report, conspiracy theory, propaganda piece, or “based on a true story” can claim factual status while distorting reality through omission, framing, exaggeration, false memory, bias, or invention.

That means Philosophy of Fiction is not just “how fiction works.” It becomes part of your broader TST truth project. It asks:

Some made-up stories tell the truth better than factual reports, and some factual reports sometimes mislead us worse than fantasy.

I wrote that Plants Term,

and posted it to TST 3 months ago.

Idea 2.

A Plants Story.

Albert Camus.

b. 1913

1913 to 1960, aged 46

A French philosopher and novelist, Camus wrestled with the absurdity of existence, the tension between humanity’s search for meaning and the indifferent, silent universe. In my writing, Camus aligns closely with the idea of embracing the wild horse—acknowledging life’s meaninglessness yet choosing to live fully and authentically in spite of it. His notion of rebellion against despair resonates with my focus on thriving in the face of uncertainty, much like Nietzsche’s call to create meaning in a nihilistic world.

I wrote that Plants Story,

and posted it to TST 2 years ago.

Idea 3.

A Plants Story.

Pyrrho of Elis.

b. 360 BCE

360 to 270 BCE

95 Generations Ago

30 Phil, Chapter 10: Pyrrho of Elis and Skepticism
Pyrrho, the skeptic, believed no one knows anything. Everything can be questioned. The best approach is to keep an open mind. Like Socrates, Pyrrho himself left no writings. We know of his teachings through his students and later writers.

Phrases that best represent skeptics:

Question everything.
Do not trust your senses.
What difference does it make if you are alive or dead?

There’s a big difference between a pure skeptic questioning literally everything, and a moderate skeptic who evaluates everything with an open mind. Pyrrho is reported to have been a pure skeptic, I’m more of a moderate skeptic.