Is Truth Relative or Absolute?
I've been tossing this concept around in my head for a few days and I started to wonder what other people think.
Is Truth Relative or Absolute and what problems are caused by someone misinterpreting one for the other?
I've found that what I consider to be Truth is mostly Relative with exceptions for Scientifically Based Truth. Scientific Laws are the Absolutes to me.
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For me, truth is absolutely relative.
But what is your truth?
I mean, I love my wife, but I know my "love" for her is just a set of ill-defined variables shoved into the shell of a human construct. Love is not immutable, and aside from biology, it's hardly universal or enduring.
*kicks pebbles*
I win.
People who don't understand that gets upset when they're told "truths" that turns out to be different from the Truth, when in reality, nobody can ever hope to know the Truth. Consequently, the closest people can get to the Truth is to know as many "truths" as possible, and hope that the union of all those "truths" will bring them closer to the Truth.
Now that I think about it, this is sort of like the difference between accuracy and precision. Just because we have very precise measurements doesn't mean that they're accurate.
You lift me up Jason, especially when my Google Reader sees an update from Quaedam. However, as of late, I've been down. :P
However, I am pretty sure a husband/boyfriend would give his life for his wife/girlfriend even though she is not carrying his kid, and a wife/girlfriend would do the same for her husband/boyfriend, and the same goes for homosexual/ bisexuals. Heck it doesn't have to be your boyfriend or girlfriend just need to be someone that you truly love.
Granted, I am talking about real love. I do not say the word love to many people, I said to my mom, my dad, my brother and sister. What I mean is that when I first came to this country I heard the word love a lot of times. And I thought: "Wow, is nice to see people that love one another". But later I realize that many of them really didn't mean it at all.
Then again, true love and true hate are just one leap away.
Also, if love does not exist why is he fighting for?
I have a couple of things in the works, but I've recently change job schedules and it has thrown everything into turmoil. Also, I'm fighting to only write things I think are some standard of quality. I had several posts I just deleted about 30 minutes into the writing because they seemed plastic and petty. Plus, other things I've really wanted to talk about we've already covered thoroughly in the forum. The other day I was pumped to write a rallying cry supporting Wal-Mart, but realized it was just rehashing a thread from last year.
Probably not true but, worth thinking about.
The truth is relatively absolute and absolutely relative.