Truth?
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I was recently asked the question " What is truth?". Wow, this could be a most interesting and deeply philisophical explanation if I could be so bold. What can one say about truth other than it is what one believes to be fact. There in lies the difference, it is what we know to be a fact. People in everyday life just "believe" things to be true without any proof. For example, many of the worlds most popular religions which in my opinion are just a bunch of fairy tales made up to explain things to the simple man. Or believing something to be true because everyone else does. One must question one's self and ask is science the true religion? Based on facts, nothing supernatural, and can eventually be explained using a method. But does that take the "magic" out of the world? I don't believe so. So if you believe something to be true, that is faith, if you know something to be true(for example the earth is round) it is fact. Time to wake up and see what is really going on and base more important decision on facts. My only hope is that America will evolve and start seeing itself for what it really is. We are the only ones on this world who don't.
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Comments (13)
I think science only has the capacity to prove something false, not true.
Nice. I am very interested in what people consider to be the truth, and how and why they got to that conclusion. You humans are an interesting race sometimes ;)
Wow, I'm honored that my post has grabbed the attention of the great Anna. I am told you are the mog elite.
There's a MOG elite?! Where do I enroll? ;)
Chris speaks highly of you, especially your razor sharp wit and fascination with Placebo. I think he may even fear you.
I deeply admire people that have faith...
I am concerned with people that say they are the keepers and knowers of truth...
I am especially concerned when people of faith follow those people that say they are keepers and knowers of truth...
A valid point and faith definitely plays an important in everything. I think it is a part of every dualality. My concern is either one clouding ones judgement. It is important to have something to believe in.
So you ask in you post: " One must question one's self and ask is science the true religion?" The question implies that science IS a religion, which it is not. Science and religion serve very different purposes. Its a bit like asking if we should replace the microwave in the kitchen with a bicycle. Both are useful, both are well suited to their individual purposes, but a bicycle would just look silly on my kitchen counter.
The fundamental differences are the questions each seeks to answer and the tools each uses to answer those questions. Science asks the how, religion asks the why. Science fits the empircal data we observe about our universe to theoretical frameworks. Religion uses faith, ritual, and "fairy tales" (or stories) to guide people to an answer.
The line becomes blurred in the popular media as we try to reconcile what science tells us and what the stories of religion tell us, as some scientific results contradict the literal interpretation of those stories. While it may be useful for folks to re-evaluate their religious dogma in the light of scientific discovery, it is my feeling that to confuse the two only degrades the purpose of each.
So to seek "truth" using science or religion is to look for very different things.
Yes it is kinda like apples and oranges, but still it is a question. One that invokes some kind of thought, no matter what kind it may be. That was my reason to probe minds for a reaction. Of course they each serve a different pupose, it would be foolish to assume that they don't. Don't know how general you can keep something like this before you have to start splitting hairs. Too often they become confused, then again what should we expect. Its a primal urge I suppose, kind of like man's ego and the need to be better than another, to wage war, and so on. I'm glad to get a response such as yours, this is the kind of thought I always hope to encounter. You can see how touchy a subject matter such as this can be.
we never know and can believe all we want.
so here's a possibility - faith could very well be the practice (as much as human faculties allow such practice) of truth within a factual context.
things being interconnected and all.
I like your universal outlook on this, its a refreshing view. I fear that I may have alienated many people with my little "experiment". What can you do?
nah. this place is made up of benevolent aliens (who are suckers for angst and profoundness) and crappy trolls (those, you should avoid). took them months to warm up to the personal demons i hurl out there, but they did. i dig the post, keep 'em coming.
Sweet, trying to keep em' thinking! Or fail to think.