TRUTH

by meanhippie

Posted to Utterances on 2003-04-17 11:59:00

Parent message is 428509
There is both an objective world and a subjective world.

The objective world is the whole world you share with everyone else and the subjective world is the way you perceive this world.

All of life is time spent trying to reconcile these two points of view.

There is a TRUTH that is universal and real. I do not know what it is but i do know that it is out there.

…When something happens (like a crime) it only happens ONE way in the objective world but in order to figure out how it occured we have to sift through a number of subjective worlds…if we pay attention and and work at it then we can figure out what the TRUTH is but we must never lose sight of the fact that we can never know for absolute certain what the truth is in any situation but we must also agree that it does exist and it is our job as humans to try and seek this out…

Its all about the contradictions…one must learn how to bring these thing together…one must be able to accept everything and nothing at the same time…

…relativity (truth as a total subjective thing) is a lazy way to see the world…it denies the strong connection that all humans have…depsite what some folks think, we are not islands unto ourselves…we all share this world and though we all interpret it differently, we are all interpreting the same stuff so we must have respect for each others’s beleifs but the same time recognize that no one truly knows what is going on yet we all have to strive to figure it out…its confusing and its simple…

….but don’t stop seeking the truth and just when you think you have discovered your truth, throw it out and look some more…there are a trillion different true answers to the same question and then at the same time, there is only one true answer to the question…

What is the truth if it can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and misunderstood? it is the TRUTH and if we recognize that it can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and misunderstood then we are halfway to finding the TRUTH.

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