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The Nature of Truth.
Topic Started: Jun 1 2016, 11:47 AM (90 Views)
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I don't care for assumptions. They lead to more trouble than they are worth, and are - in fact - worth nothing.
An interesting conversation overtook me, sometime earlier, based upon and around, what was true and what was not.
Which caused me to investigate, via dictionary definitions, what truth actually was...

The dictionaries are of little help; something along the lines of:
Truth has the quality of being true. And: True is something containing truth.
Well that's a big help.

Actually, when you get right down to it, truth is a human mind-construct. It has no actual existence. Nothing else on earth goes around verifying stuff to ascertain its truth, or to discover if it is true.
There is, at its simplest, only one thing you can say about anything: It Is What It Is.
Leaving one to discover what it is. Or not.

People engage in mighty conflicts over this thing they refer to as 'truth'. They get hot and heavy over demanding to know what is 'true'.
Attacking each other and belittling, ridiculing, shaming, and exposing those who do not agree with them.
Thus it would appear that truth has more to do with humans outdoing other humans, in a staged social posturing exercise, than it has to do with any higher purpose.

There is no truth, and nothing is true, beyond anybody's own direct experience. And even then, true and truth are only words for abstract thoughts involving judgments over things, people, and events.

It would be a handy thing, this notion of true and truth, if they were universally agreed upon as being true and truthful. And, no doubt, that is where such notions originally sprang from. But, like every other human invention, they have - over time - become degraded and a poor substitute for the things they were originally intended to represent.

I assume nothing, these days. I do not assume that anything written, spoken of, recorded, or proved, by humans, as having any validity at all.
Instead, I have a rock-steady approach to any and all things: It Is What It Is.

This serves me well.
Edited by crow, Jun 1 2016, 11:53 AM.
"Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space.
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