"Perhaps everything is "god" as Spinoza believed and all concepts are meaningless because EVERYTHING is TRUTH."
Ok, I get that.
Spinoza, one of the most famous Pantheists of all times.
We can certainly grasp the concept of "All" even if we can't realize the extent of it practically. "All" in the sense of everything knowable in the perfect unconfused form would be a perfect truth about "All Knowingness". Such realization certainly does not seem attainable to limited human existence, which is not to say we don't have a reference, or several.
Other truths are available in the practical sense when we have respect for our use of thought and expressions of language.
The following are simple true statements, when considered under the usual common contexts and contingencies in which they are delivered: the ocean is wet, our planet has one Sun, Birds have feathers. If someone wants to play games with logic and language they can argue with those statements... Examples: 1) Ocean fossils are found on the Great plains of America, so it is a Dry Ocean, 2) The night's stars in the sky are also Suns and they are experienced by the people of this planet as often as the One which shines in the day time, 3) the chicken in the oven is a bird and has no feathers.
We can agree upon truisms, we can also put a spin on one just to be difficult. Thoughtful, well meaning folk can construct a gigantic stack of wise, truthful, meaningful, and beneficial concepts ... but it doesn't take much thought or skill to kick over a stack of building blocks no matter who constructed them.
Truth doesn't have to encompass every detail of knowable things. I liked a theme I saw in the movie "The Last Samurai." The Lead Samurai spent his life time looking for a perfect Cherry Blossom. As he lay dieing on the field of battle and the blossoms were floating around him, he discovered what he had been looking for when he declared, "They are all perfect."
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