I am writing today with a question.
What is truth?
Truth in regards to anything. Politics,Religion and whatever else you can think of.
I believe I know the truth. You believe you know the truth. Another person believes they know the truth.
All have different perspectives. Yet is one of them correct or all?
We all have opinions and all of us are happy to share them with one another. Is truth, black and white? Is there gray in there?
Is there such a thing as absolutes?
You may say yes or no, but are you sure? Can you be certain?
How do you know when someone is lying to you? Especially, over the internet, on blogs,and emotionless emails. Even over the phone. You cannot read the persons body language or facial expressions. They could be flipping you off while you talk away and you would never know!
How can you tell when a politician is lying to you? As a joke, politicians always lie, because they want you to vote for them. So why would you really vote for anyone who sounds so wonderful? Maybe in reality they all don't lie but how can you know for sure?
How can you tell when the Media is lying to you? Do you believe the media really isn't bias in what they present to you?
Even Fox news says they are unbiased and they let you decide. However, they are the ones writing the news. Therefore, they have the choice of what they want you to know.
How do you know that everything you believe is the truth? What if it weren't the truth and you believed a lie? What if you were fooled by someone you trusted?
What is truth? Is truth relative? Does it depend on each individual?
What if ,for instance, you believed there was no God? No hell, or heaven. None of it.
What if, you are wrong?
What are the consequences?
What if, you believe there is a God. You believe in heaven and hell and all that jazz..
What if you are wrong?
What are the consequences?
How can you know the truth about anything?
Perhaps there just is no truth. Only different points of view and different perspectives on the same thing...
"En Vino Veritas": In Wine there is truth. This is a quote I heard in my creative writing class today. We were talking about how people are more likely tell the truth when they are drunk. Maybe this doesn't really apply to this blog, but I felt like mentioning it anyway.
Perhaps. If that were the case though, why would anyone argue? If it is all relative. Is the light on or off? Tis the question. I liked your qoute. I think that might be true. LOL
Well you know what they say- there is what you say and there is what I say. Then there is the truth. The truth stands alone and is always right. How we find it? Don't know.
These are the famous words of the father of modern mathematics and a founder of the western philosophy of rationalism...
"Anything which admits of the slightest doubt I will set aside just as if I had found it to be wholly false; and I will proceed in this way until I recognize something certain, or, if nothing else, until I at least recognize for certain that there is no certainty. Archimedes used to demand just one firm and immovable point in order to shift the entire earth; so I too can hope for great things if I manage to find just one thing, however slight, that is certain and unshakeable...So after thoroughly thinking the matter through I conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, must be true whenever I assert it or think it." ~ René Descartes, from The Second Meditation
To me, the unshakeable assertion that "I am, I exist" provides me with the "immovable point" from which to judge the world around me. When someone presents me with a proposition that I can measure directly agaist the ruler of my own existence, I tend to believe in the "truth" of their assertions. When someone presents me with a proposition that cannot be so measured, I tend to be skeptical of the "truth" they assert. Basically, I operate under the premise of "show me." If you can, great...you have a convert to the cause of your "truth." If you cannot, then I'm sorry, but I'm not willing to assert a "truth" that cannot be supported though objective, rational experience.
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This is a question for the theory of relativity as well. If everything is relative can there be any absolute perceived?
Glutenously yours,
Pasta Rasta
There is a truth to everything. Found our not, known or unknown, everything has an answer, the only exception is the true beginning, you can only get to the first step after.
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Everything, you have done, and will do, is chemically predisposed by matter, even the fact you are reading this message. You make no choices, only perceive a given reality.
Brilliance Standard..
prove it.
Glutenously yours,
Pasta Rasta