Monday, November 15, 2010

Perspectives of Truth

Arun - "I AM" is the biggest dream. One needs a spiritual suicide to snap out of that dream.... (just a wild thot.)
Me - I am inclined to he following thots of Kierkegaard:
"What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except in so far as certain knowledge must precede every action. The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die...."
Maybe God is just another like all other illusions the mind is said to conjure.
Why I am what I am is just an existential reality!
Arun - 100% true
But do you agree with his philosophy that "Subjectivity is truth" AND "Truth is subjective"?
Me - I really haven't explored the philosophical insights. But, a superficial understanding does resonate. In a way it explains to me why I feel no guilt, regret, remorse.
Arun - Well, do you think Truth is subjective or objective? Is it to be found in science or religion? Is it to be experienced or learned? Is it to be found by logic or inference? Is it black and white or grey?
Me - What each of us does is, in that moment, and is based on a Truth for us. This individual Truth may be guided by relevant and preceding knowledge existing that, he/she knows has been evaluated as right or wrong by experience, society, Faith et al. Action is triggered by the need to achieve the most "comfortable" fit in the situation and/or response to the circumstances. That need is usually one of inclusion. To belong and also be recognised, as per the terms of one's conditioning.
So the Truth is this individual perception that is the basis of one's actions in a moment.
Subjective or objective is a point of view. Is it to be found in science or religion is a matter of belief. Experience and learning keeps Truth dynamic. Absolutes and logic....???
Arun - Is Truth individualistic or universal? Is it like saying my God is better than yours? Is Truth constant, or can Truth be dynamic? Has it not been there for eons?
Me - What is Truth? An undisputed acceptance. The aspects and qualitative attributes, being subscribed to by majority community for personal reasons that encompass experience, belief, faith logic and all such approaches to explain and understand phenomena and experience. Aggregated experience provides a body of knowledge to explain things. That which is perceived and known to be real gets accepted as a universal truth - fuels scientific endeavor. Belief systems have idealised knowledge and ascribed Truth a divine spin to it. Possibly requiring their version of Truth to be unquestioned while also perpetuating an elite as interlocutors. All God believers, swear by their own God!!
Truth is dynamic. Belief held as Truth, continuously being negated by fact. - The earth as the centre of the Universe belief of Christianity. Beliefs about anatomical functions spawning remedies. The tangible ultimately can get proven beyond doubt as Truth and, upturn eons of belief held as Truth.
What is beyond doubt, is Truth. Even those aspects presently held on Faith, not in the realm of definition of fact, could over time become Universal Truths beyond doubt OR, linger on as individual Truths - dogmatic prescriptions of belief/Faith.
Arun - You have this unique knack of complicating things!!
Me - A little knowledge is always dangerous.
Truth also is what answers one Whys and Whatfors and results in peace of mind.

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