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Truth is the only thing to set you free.
posted by
serpico
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September 22, 2008
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Truth? Schmuth!
Gimme the facts, and I'll figure out the truth.
posted by
Pat_B
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September 16, 2008
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It takes two to argue...
And that's the truth! thuuupt! I think.
Woof! from the wonder dog
and from me too!
posted by
Whacky
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September 15, 2008
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Truth is the hardest thing to get to...and the easiest thing to feel in your heart. Everyone's is different so you are right Taps ...why waste our time arguing. It is what it is. :-)
posted by
Sinome
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September 15, 2008
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All these wonderful comments I am in awe. I spent my years at university
but I never was an academicy type person. So I think that truth just has to be reality. What realy is.
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Kabu
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September 15, 2008
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TAPS
"Truth ever lovely-since the world began,
The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man." (Campbell)
Good thoughts in your posts luv.
posted by
WileyJohn
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September 15, 2008
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TAPS
Philosophers have written books on the subject - but I shall spare you...
posted by
Nautikos
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September 15, 2008
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truth is the ethical way the only way
posted by
lustorlove
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September 15, 2008
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Man has no truth
It is the truth you know that sets you free. That is the Holy Word and only that! Facts are not truths. i can see right and wrong because of the truth I know.
posted by
Justi
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September 15, 2008
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This reminds me of a disagreement I had with my step-son's teacher
I got called into the school because he had hurt another child and was refusing to admit what he did.
As I pulled in the parking lot I could hear him crying from inside. "I am telling the truth." I went in and found my child crying and I stopped to talk with him before I spoke with the teacher (this used to make them nuts, that I listened to my child).
He explained in his way of viewing the world what occured THEN I talked with the teacher who was irate because he wasn't telling the truth. This child in my opinion to this day is borderline autistic yet, I couldn't get the doctors off the ADD thing to get beyond that. For him everything was in a very small box and if you veered outside of his perception he could not see it. His perception and the teachers perception were different. Had she just listened to what he was saying, she would have realized that but her truth in her world was the only truth.
posted by
Bel_
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September 15, 2008
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Ah TAPS.. therein lies one of the big philosophical questions..
It seems to me that all we have, at anytime, are our perceptions and presuppositions and general subjectivity. No matter how much of the big picture we see there's always more outside the frame that we impose and even the stuff we frame can be very different when viewed from another angle. By the way, I do feel sorry for you guys in the States.. your election cycle just seems to go on and on ad infinitum!
posted by
robdon67
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September 15, 2008
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There are so many permutations of truth...
but the real problem, as you're pointing out here, is when someone decides that the truth they believe in is an absolute Truth, and starts believing that their world isn't satisfactory unless everyone accepts the same.
It gives them, they imagine, the authority and permission to be invasive, mean, inconsiderate...
posted by
Ciel
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September 15, 2008
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I think truth is objective. Truth is fact, but sometimes we only see
partial truths through our subjective, limited perception...but truth remains truth whether or not we see it or believe it. Good post!
posted by
Ariala
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September 15, 2008
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nice work
its really excelent
posted by
khyal
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September 15, 2008
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