Explanations

by Bro Dash

Thoughts on fact and opinion

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This will be short, as it is another subject altogether, though still small in it's entirety.


Swirling the coin in the air, Dr. Ph. stared at how it looked like a blur, than a solid object to him. Getting bored of watching it's movements, a knock at the one door brought his attention up like a spark. Opening the door, Twilight walked in the room for a second time. With a frown, Dr. Ph. sent her back out, and closed the door, hitting it with a bit of magic. A few seconds later, another knock, and instead, Rainbow Dash flew in, getting a little to close to the other wall before back winging to the center of the room and looking directly into the black wall.

"Pinkie Pie! Come fix this wall before someone else falls through!!", Rainbow Dash yelled outside of the door.

Once pulled back in, Dr. Ph. made his quick explanation and intro.

"Hello, Rainbwo Dash, I am Doctor Philosopher."

"Who? I've never heard of you."

"Exactly, I'm not famous here, yet. Or maybe I won't be at all. Depends on how this all catches on, and if this room isn't invaded and taken down by Doctor Whooves, who should be here in a little while."

"Who and what are you?", Rainbow Dash asked, finally landing on the other seat.

"A philosopher, hence the name, Doctor Philosopher."

"Ok, then. Why am I here?"

"I don't know, you're the one who's been cramming in the books on facts of life more than Twilight."

Jumping from her chair onto Dr. Ph.'s, she nearly knocked them both on the ground.

"How do you know that?!"

"Trust me, I've got enough dirt on every living thing to send this world into a broken order and start wars. Luckily, I'm not a fool, and I'm not that heartless."

Levitating Rainbow Dash back to her seat, Dr. Ph. cleared his throat.

"What is your opinion on fact?"

"What? You'd seriously ask me that, knowing I've read seventy nine books about fact and it's properties, and twenty three about opinion and it's properties?"

"Well, you tell me, you're obsessed enough to go that far into studying it."

"You're right, I should stop. Anyway. As I see it, fact can't be changed, and is the truth, fact is truth, always, and can only be truth, just as it is fact that we can only stand up on something, due to gravity and our natural senses to stand upright."

"But here is a good question. How do we even know fact is a fact, and opinion is an opinion?"

"An opinion is based off of one's beliefs, and a fact is based off of hard evidence, why else?"

"Well, it is because we came up with fact and opinion. We gave them both different definitions, but they are linked more than one would think than just left and right. Oooh, speaking of left and right. If you go right three times, you go left. If you go left three times, you go right. Wonderful! Anyway, as you can see, it is all opinion. If we create it from our imagination, another anomaly in sentiency, far from the billions of atoms that make up just part of our minds, cores of emotion, it is all chemical reactions, did you know?

"But enough, and to the point. It is never fact, only opinion. We came up with fact and opinion. If we think of something, and we draw it out, and it is correct, it is opinion, because we came up with it. We have no actual, solid way of determining if something is fact, only opinion remains, and therefore, is the fallback of all facts. If it can't be counted fact, it is counted opinion, because it is already opinion!! Fact. Is. Opinion!"

"Uh...bluh, buwha, dizh, vuhpa....what?"

"Mind blown? Thank you, have a nice day. If you are too confused to register what I am saying right now, please leave in an orderly fashion, and you will never return, nor will remember this ever happened."

Falling from her chair, Dr. Ph. held back a laugh as he picked her up and deposited her outside. Once she landed on the ground, she shook her head, got back int he air, and returned to her task at hand. Closing the door as she left, Dr. Ph. hit it with another blast of magic, changing it's properties once more.

"Yes...Perfect."