I can't help but notice a misunderstanding of relativism by absolutists. I would like to clarify what it, to me, means. The entire misunderstanding seems to be hinged on the idea that relativism is this: "I asert that it is factually TRUE that there is no such thing as TRUTH." Which is of course as illogical as they say, but then again this is not representative of relativism at all. The idea (emphasis on idea, since relativism cannot be provable or disprovable, it only exists as a mere thought, a meme if you would like to call it that) of relativism is relatable to artwork. Take a piece of inspirational artwork you know of- I will use Alex Gray's "Gaia" as my example, since I don't know much other artwork that's nearly as inspiriational. To me it means that life is cyclical, that we have raped, pillaged, and destroyed this planet for our own gain, yet you see that the tree (representative of the earth) lives on regardless, that this destruction will destroy us long before it destroys the earth. I could go on but that would get us off topic. Now, when you look at the picture, is that the EXACT meaning you draw from it? Most likely not. More likely you draw a different meaning from it. But then whose interpretation is correct? It seems to me that the above question cannot even be answered- you cannot apply truth and falseness to subjective meanings. The painting does not have any meaning in itself, it is a jumble of colors and paper. It has no more purpose than a rock. Yet we give it a purpose, for ourselves. Outside of what we give to it it is nothing more than an object. Now, apply that to everything, and you have a basic understanding of relativism. It is the PERCEPTION that truth does not exist, not the FACT that it does not. Since perceptions cannot be truer than one another, they cannot be labelled as right or wrong. BUT, to satisfy the absolutists who are not still convinced that relativism can even be logical, I must confess that it does seem to me that there is one self-evident Truth we can all agree on: Everything Is. Even this is may be too complex to describe it, but it is the best we can describe it. I think we can all agree on this point. And that is the Truth I see. No laws about morality, nothing inheirently right or wrong, everything simply is, and we are now percieving 'Everything' as if it were a painting, we give our meanings to it, we assign subjective values to it (some of these subjective values assert that they are actually objective, but I do not percieve this to be the case). My perceptions may be more beautiful, more intricate, more complex, but they cannot be more true than your own. Of course this is just my perceptions talking, what do I really know? 
