In a day and age where we are always struggling to find more time in the day, I was pleased to see that I could skip reading the entire 8,000 pages that make up the Bible and go with the Reader’s Digest version.
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Ah… but are facts and truth the same thing?
@ forkboy1965,
I’d suggest no, facts are not the same as truth. Truth strikes me as something deeper, more profound and more permanent than facts.
Facts are to truth as bricks are to a steam engine.
@ Jordan,
So, no relation at all?
Or maybe truth carries tons of facts across the country on its back?
@Liam,
I’m a postmodern, so facts for me are peculiar, slippery little devils. There is objective truth (i.e. reality), it is just really difficult for us with our methods of perceptions to get to it. We can find pieces of it from time to time, but if Science is our tower of Babel, it is fairly short; two or three stories tops.
@Jordan,
Is your reality the same as mine? If not, then can your truth really be objective?
@Liam,
I don’t personally have a reality. No there is only one reality (unless there isn’t). But once you realize how different your perception is from reality you start to question you beliefs about it. For one thing, there’s no color in reality. Color is our perception of the wavelengths of light radiation reflecting off, emitting from, or filtering through objects. We see light, not objects. What we think of as solid matter is really only a vacuous substrate held together with the electromagnetic force. There are actually ten dimensions of space, we are aware of only three.