Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:36 am by RLSteve
Well, how do you define TRUTH?
When I did Landmark, the forum instructor said something interesting:
You know how in the opening for The X-Files it always says, "The truth is out there?" In actuality, it would be more accurate to say, "The Universe is out there, but the truth isn't, because we have yet to invent the truth about what we have not seen yet."
So, what is truth? Is it just a description/interpretation of what we observe? And if everybody's description/interpretation of what's observed is different... then how can there be any absolute description/interpretation?
Is it true that the sky is blue? Or would it be more accurate to say that most people perceive and interpret the sky to be blue?
Let's say Grundy and I are looking up at the sky, and we agree that it is blue. However, how do I know if the "blue" Grundy sees is the same "blue" that I see? For all I know, he could be seeing what I'd perceive to be "green," but because people have always called it "blue," it is "blue" to Grundy. Grundy and I can only agree that the sky is "blue," but really, we have no way of being sure that we see the same color the same way. We only have language to convey our understanding of truth.
So, where does truth exist?
In the realm of language.
And if we didn't have any language, would there be any such thing as truth?