we are not equal. What is truth for you may be not as good for me and also what is truth to me may be not as good for you.
Are the same things working for all of us or we are different?
2006-08-30 22:32:13 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is entirely possible for some things to work for you, but not for me.
We are not all equal, and by virtue of inequality, we are all different.
And if I had a God, I would probably thank him for that.
2006-08-30 22:59:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
We are equal, but different. We are made this way for a reason. It forces us to listen and learn from each other. No one person can embody all truth. When we combine our truths, we form a new truth...until someday, Truth will be the prevailing Entity. We are all part of a Whole...one not being less or more important than another.
2006-08-31 05:41:50 · answer #2 · answered by riverhawthorne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Within each of us lives the spark of the Divine. The Divine (lets call the Divine It) likes to conform to our expectations of It. If we expect It to be a certain 'mythological' being like a god or goddess, It will gladly take that persona up including the ideas that other people project about that persona. It's conforming to you, but since you expect It to be on a certain 'wavelength', It's conforming to other's expectations about It too. If you expect It to be something that noone has ever projected onto It before, It is weaker because It has less to draw upon. The Flying Spaghetti Monster, for example, is a pretty weak diety because that representation is so new and it's a mockery anyhow. The expectations upon It, in that form, aren't heart-felt so It doesn't really have to try all that hard. The human spirit is universal and all faith are 'true' to those who follow them. There is no One True Faith that makes all others False and Paths to Damnation. Sh!t ain't like that.
Perfection is a good example of this. My idea of Paradise could be Hellish to, let's say, Rush Limbaugh. Rush's idea of Paradise could be horrid to me. How can there be a singular Heaven that conforms to both our expectation? Therefore the concept of Perfection is an Ideal and not something which can be brought to bear upon our physical plane. An Ideal is a good thing to work towards, but won't probably even be reality, but you must work towards it anyways because that's the best way for things to improve. This used to make no sense to me when I heard the Dalai Lama say it. But, it makes sense now. It's because there is no limit to how bad things can get. Negativity is limitless, too many options. This means that there IS a limit to how good things can get. Which makes getting a grip on constructive and positive concept easier since there are fewer of them. Attitude is the most important thing in spiritual endevour.
2006-08-31 05:49:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can't both be right and have the truth if our truths conflict either you are right and I am wrong or you are wrong and I am right but we can't both be right or have differing views as truth, we may have different things work for us or you might really say differing preferences, but preferences are not necessarily truths are they? you cant say this book here is white and I say it's black and both of us be right that is impossible especially since our views don't agree the only way we could both be right is if we agreed about the same truth and if it really is truth! and yes we are all different different in the priority of really true or just sounds true some of us want to get to the bottom of things and find out the truth and others are just content with what may sound true to them
2006-08-31 06:13:19 · answer #4 · answered by I speak Truth 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You know the answer to your question before you even posed it if you have been on this site very long.
I believe in Christ, he is the way , the truth, and the life. But for others that is not the case. So obviously the same thing does not work for all people.
2006-08-31 06:59:34 · answer #5 · answered by Only hell mama ever raised 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is only one truth, not "truth for me and truth for you".
Now, of course that truth might be good for me and not for you, for example if I make more money than you (or vice-versa, if I make less).
But as for the questions that people tend to argue about here - existence of god, of souls, life after death - there's only one truth. There is no god, there are no souls, there's no life after death. You may choose to believe in those things, but that doesn't make them true.
2006-08-31 05:38:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Truth is truth regardless of context. If your truth is different to my truth then one of us must be wrong. A person can be fervent in their beliefs yet be partly or completely wrong.
2006-08-31 05:39:36 · answer #7 · answered by uselessadvice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know three things.
Jesus said that he is the Way, The Truth and the Life.
There is a God.
I am not Him.
2006-08-31 05:43:34 · answer #8 · answered by dillonsdream 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's true to a certain extent, but you just cannot get around the fact that some people are uneducated, and thus will act so.
2006-08-31 05:38:17 · answer #9 · answered by kitty fresh & hissin' crew 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the same thing worked for all of us, there would be no christians or muslims, would there, since we would all be Jews.
2006-08-31 05:48:24 · answer #10 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋