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Don't you agree? Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

NiceFarm 5 Aug 14
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One can usefully approach truth, even if one can't totally, objectively define it. And there is a path that enables that, called the scientific method. And even, less clearly, philosophy.

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I don’t think we can ever agree what truth is. Each of us considers our own belief or disbelief to be true. I don’t understand the conception of a path leading to truth....in my mind if there is evidence a thing is true if not it is false.

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No I don't agree. Truth is the reality that whatever is, is what's so. Not so obviously, it's also, so what?

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To approach is not the same thing as to apprehend or capture. Science is constantly approaching truth. Science is a path. Some religions incorporate a respect for science.

skado Level 9 Aug 15, 2018
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When we are called to the witness stand--something I've actually experienced--we agree to tell the truth. The great problem here is that, no matter how forthright we hope to be, our testimony is subject to our flawed memories, incomplete picture, misperceptions, inexact vocabulary and subjective biases. Truth is supposed to be synonymous with fact, but as we all know, each of us has our own set of filters--the biproducts of our experience and genetic constraints--which predispose each one of us to unique impressions, judgments, abridgments, edits and even revisions. As a result, it would seem a fool's errand to attempt to place the article 'the' in front of truth, for there could, in theory, be 7 billion truths.

@Matias Not sure how I would reply, but I know that this individual's interpretation of the divine is uniquely his/hers. We know that in nature there are no two organisms or objects of any kind that are identical. It seems absurd to me, and rather arrogant, to believe that my subjective interpretation of a being that cannot be accurately described, has never been seen or heard and will never be geolocated, may be exported to others.

The most hubristic and overbearing people are those who take it upon themselves to prosletyze, or bear witness for their faith. The prophets, preachers, apostles and missionaries are, and have been, among the most delusional. They never seem to understand that their experience, their 'truth' is entirely their own and that whatever they feel has been 'revealed' to them is necessarily limited to the first person. Here again, my avatar said it best.

"It is a contradiction in terms and ideas to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication. After this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it cannot be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner, for it was not a revelation made to me, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him."
Thomas Paine, 'The Age of Reason'

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I think there are external truths and internal truths

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"Truth is that which is; it is nameless. And so, the mind cannot approach it" - Krishnamurti

DES32 Level 4 Aug 15, 2018
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The search for the truth might be flawed, but the search itself is priceless T.P

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Is not the truth the truth?
William Shakespeare

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