What Is Truth?

Blueblades

Is this a complex question,or is it a simple one,who knows?

JamesThomas

Truth, is extremely simple It is what we really are It is the complexity of what is false who we believe ourselves to be that hides It

j

Absolute truth cannot be put into words, only experienced. An understanding or concept of truth that can be described is finite and thus subject to change. What is the heresy of today may be the truth of tomorrow.

Undecided

The only truth I know is we will never know the full truth about anything. We don't even know ourselves.

Ken P.

got my forty homey?

The Truth is ,life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering.

JH

Truth is relative

10+10=20 That's true, but only in base 10

Narkissos

Enjoyed the question and the posts. Nietzsche wrote (with some exaggeration) that Pilate's question was the only meaningful saying in the Gospels.

GmFH?, you recalled me James Joyce's phrase: "History is a nightmare I am trying to wake of." It's certainly part of the truth, but is it all?

Carmel

Isn't it interesting how many have a sour outlook about the "truth" even though reality is not so bleak as most contend.

carmel

asleif_dufansdottir

"Archaeology is the search for fact. Not truth. If it's truth you're interested in, Doctor Tyree's Philosophy class is right down the hall."

jst2laws

Well Blue,

If you are talking about preparing your tax return for 2003 truth is whatever the numbers add up to.

But if you are talking about life, reality, God, and the future, there is no absolute math for this. In the world in which we live (that we think is real ) we now know there are no absolutes. Even in the one time absolute world of Newtonian Physics we are discovering when we get inside the atom, there are no absolutes. This ugly phenomena has surfaced that EVERYTHING is relative to the OBSERVER. So in this real world we now see that truth IS RELEVANT.

If that sound like a cop-out just remember we used to argue against that notion with our WT fundy teachings wherein we had all the answers. Having survived that illusion then we can search for another fundy cult to convince us that THEY have all the answers, or we can accept the reality that there are no absolute answers, or TRUTH, in this context.

What do you think.

STeve

JamesThomas, I like your stile