What is your source of "absolute truth"?

Question

If you say "whatever my heart tells me" then you have declared yourself God.

If you say whatever the majority of society says, then what Hiter did was right.

If you say the Bible, then you must believe it 100% for it to be valid, as if you don't it no longer becomes absolute but pick and choose, which is the same as "going with your heart".

If you say there is no absolute truth, you have made an absolute statement and contradicted yourself.

Answer 1

The Bible.

Answer 2

Haha, you almost sound like a philosopher. The answer is simple. Not everything needs to be dealt in absolutes. It may be that there is an absolute truth, or a source for it, but there is no reason to believe that we have access to it, or that we can identify it. Furthermore, it may be more prudent to assume that some bits of truth can be found in different places, rather than speaking in terms of a holy grail of truth.

To further complicate things for you, truth is often regarded as subjective. Human beings may not be capable of understanding an objective truth, or communicating what it is even if they just experienced it.

Finally, since there is no reason to believe that there is any such thing, why bother asking the question? I might as well ask you what your source for fairy dust is? Or how do you get fur from Big Foot.

Your question, is absolutely nonsensical, aside from some intellectual msaturbation, so then, it's not absolutely absolute, just a little.

Answer 3

There are essentially two forms of reality:

Objective (fundamental) (absolute) reality - What IS... ('truth')

Subjective (personal) reality - What we THINK is, or PERCEIVE to be.

There is only one 'objective reality'... that which exists even when nobody is looking (although there is some doubt whether ANYTHING exists when nobody is looking). There are as many 'subjective' realities as their are sentient minds... maybe more, depending upon the level of consciousness of other creatures on this earth that we do not believe to be sentient, and other creatures tht might exist elsewhere in the universe.

The ONLY thing that we know for sure about objective reality is that it is 'non-local', in the sense of 'Bell's Theorem'. Even Quantum Theory doesn't really tell us anything about objective reality directly... it only allows us to predict how objective reality will respond, when we poke it.

In other words, we DO NOT HAVE ACCESS to the 'truth'... and even if we did, there is little reason to suppose that we would be able to recognize it or interpret it. So, for all intents and purposes, 'truth' is irrelevant. The best we can do is come up with APPROXiMATIONS of the 'truth' in the form of 'paradigms'... useful ways of looking at or contemplating things.

NOBODY knows or has access to 'absolute truth'; the best that we can achieve, by means of 'faith' and 'belief', is to create a compelling DELUSION, that tricks us into THINKING that we know the 'truth'. Or, alternatively, one could always take the 'rational' approach and say "We really don't know squat about absolute 'truth', but we've got some really neat ways of thinking about that stuff that allows us to accurately predict what's gonna happen when we fu*k with it."

That's probably going to be as good as it gets for the next century of two.

Answer 4

The Bible. Absolute.

Answer 5

I like what BRIAN L. said, he said that "what we know today is closer to the truth than what we knew yesterday"(paraphrase)

I was once not VEGAN because I could not see thru to BREAK FREE from the brain wash, now I am vegan, as I have reached "that level"

veganism is about evolution, the first step for me was to stop eating meat and other things like eggs and milk... then I learned that it was UNWISE to let a non-vegan cat out that I was responsible for looking after... I am still stuck because well what/where/how should the CAT really be living? So I am still searching for the higher truth on this one.(it's an odd situation because I am living with my non-vegan parents and every chance they get they let the cat out with no apparent care for mice or rabbits or birds, just like I once seemingly had NO THOUGHT to care)

here are just some points that I came up with: link.20fr.com

Answer 6

Your question is silly... No one can know absolute truth absolutely... It is impossible for mere, limited human beings... I believe the Bible is absolute truth and I do believe it 100%... The problem is that we all have different interpretations... Absolute truth won't be known to mankind until after this world ends

Answer 7

If I say "there is no absolute truth," that is only a statement made by a fallible creature, there's nothing absolute about declaring that I have no source of absolute truth, no contradiction. Yawn.

Answer 8

"If you say whatever the majority of society says, then what Hiter did was right."

No! Hitler and the Nazis, when they were retreating at the end of the war, went to great lengths to try to destroy the evidence of what they had done in the death camps. If Hitler and the Nazis really felt that the death camps were morally justified, they would not have tried to hide their actions. Logically, they should have even been proud of what they had done--if it had been moral. The truth is that Hitler and the Nazis knew they were using immoral and even despicable means.

Answer 9

I would say the closest would be out of the mouths of babes, but the older they get the more they hear from adults and they learn to lie. No human being is a source of truth. And true feelings you can really only get from an animal

Answer 10

Not necessarily if you say because you know in your heart that your source is correct
the Holy Spirit can move into you and show you the path
so then what would you say is the absolute truth then?