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But in General; Do we only Know what we've been taught ?
Like we've been taught our different languages, we have to rely on those teacher's to Teach us well.
If they ever fail we can alway's check it out here for a Balanced Global View - Can't we ??????
http://globalresearch.ca/
http://thetruthseeker.co.uk

2006-09-21 06:59:57 · 7 answers · asked by Tommy D. 5 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

Edit: All you can do for now is pass it on and Pray.x

2006-09-21 07:10:50 · update #1

7 answers

"Think from Truth about life, not from life about Truth."

"HEALING TRUTH

'How can I be different?'

'Be the way you are.'

'I don't understand.'

'You must always be the way you are because there is nothing else.
Pretending to be different will chain but not change you. A sheep
who imagines he is a lion is still a sheep.'

'But how do I change by being what I am?'

'By seeing what you are. See the difference between your real nature
and your dozens of stage roles. When realizing the price you pay to
be onstage, the roles fall away of themselves.'

'I see. Awareness of what I am changes what I am. But I fear such
self-honesty will hurt.'

'The truth that hurts is the same truth that heals. Remember that.'”

"The Truth is for those who no longer want to suffer."

"SEEK TRUTH

Only empty people seek power over others. If obtained,
everyone aches. A power-lover hopes to fill the terri-
fying vacancy he feels, and so he fills, fills, fills,
but feels more hollow than before. As cleverly as he
conceals his horror, it will not let him go. He fills
a flower basket with rocks, then indignantly wonders
why life is so hard. You don’t need power over others.
It hurts, for you fear losing it. Seek Truth-power."

"LIVING TRUTH

A truth is understood only when it favorably influences what the
individual does, what he is. He must not only know the truth with
his mind, but must live it with his whole being. Everyone must
guard against taking mental knowledge of the truth for living it
out in daily behavior. An honest glance at the actual inward con-
dition is enough to prevent a mistake here. Speaking the phrases
‘kindly attitudes’ and ‘mental health’ is not the same as living
with those qualities.

You want a way of life, not a pill to be taken when desperation
dictates. You want a freely flowing day requiring no stops for
pills. You don’t want just the words; you want the lasting ins-
piration of the music."

"POSITIVE TRUTH

Careless people say, 'But these higher ideas seem so negative.'
This is painful and dangerous delusion. A negative mind looks at
Truth, but cannot take its brilliance, and so turns back to see
itself, which it foolishly thinks is negative Truth. Darkness sees
only darkness. Such ignorant people would call a scientist negative
if he warned them against drinking impure water. Let positive Truth
declare what is negative. It makes you positive."


"Truth does not exist to be organized and interpreted by man,
but to save him."

"Truth's strength does not depend upon your belief or lack of
belief in it. You can be very grateful for that. Truth's power
is as independent of human thought as sunlight is independent
of the wind. To understand this, blend with Truth."

"Truth wants only to help you. Falsehood wants only to
hurt you."

"Truth's compassion is beautifully apparent when it asks,
'What are you doing to help yourself?'"

"Truth is not on the level of words, which is why it is easier
to see truth than explain it."


"Truth can be explained with simple words, but deluded man
thinks that the obscure is the profound."

"Truth seems harsh and negative only to dishonest people,
dishonest people who would rather attack than yield."

"Truth is tough on pain. It is not tough on you."

"TRUTH POWER

Suppose you are passing a rioting mob. Someone in the mob
exclaims, 'This is madness. I’m getting out.' You sense the
sanity in that remark. How is such wisdom won? The more power
you get from society, such as money and approval, the more you
are under mob-terror because you are part of it. But the more
power from Truth, the more wisdom you have toward the mob that
is human society. You know enough to stay out! Know enough!"

"Truth is very much concerned that everything is all right
with you."

"Truth knows exactly what you should do with yourself all day long,
so why not let it tell you?”

"Truth never condemns anyone for anything. It simply informs
everyone that he lives unknowingly in a state of psychic
hypnosis which attracts all his griefs. Truth cordially
invites everyone to listen to the necessary instructions
for self-awakening. Truth teaches, 'See your need for facing
an entirely new direction. Remember, when facing the sun,
the shadow is at your back.'"

"TRUTH’S INVITATION

Truth does not say an individual must approach without his angers
and frustrations. If a man is bound by these chains he has no choice
but to come with them. Asking a prisoner to behave like a free man is
both impossible and hypocritical. Truth says this to the chained man
or woman, ‘Come with your very angers and frustrations, but add some-
thing else. Add a simple and earnest wish to drop your chains. This
wish itself is a new power. By permitting it to enter the action you
permit it to become the key to liberation.’

No man who asked insincerely ever received an answer. No man who
asked sincerely was ever denied an answer. Truth always knows which
of the two attitudes is asking.

Inspiration is the beautiful explosion of understanding that occurs
when a truth meets a willingness to receive that truth."


"Truth is compassionate to all

Because the truth is gentle and kindly, it also shocks.
It has no motive in shocking except to awaken suffering
humanity. Falsehood fears to shock, for its selfish in-
terests require sleeping people to remain asleep, there-
fore falsehood is ruthless and cruel. Knowing its own
innocence, truth can say, 'Sacrifice to others in hope
of securing their support for your shaky self-structure
can only bring heartache. That wonderful person you idol-
ize is just as lost as you are. Do not call evil good.
Let that begin your self-rescue.'"

"Truth will go anywhere to rescue anyone. You need only be ready to
come back home. It makes no difference how long or far you have
wandered. Since Truth does not fear what you fear, it can seek and
find you in the deepest jungle, and guide you back to where you
really belong."

"Truth does not hide from anyone, which means that it is men and
women who hide."

"Truth is absolutely delighted with anyone who walks toward it
while simply wondering what it is all about."

"Truth is the only force on earth that will not betray you after
asking for your obedience."

"Truth never argues with what is wrong."

2006-09-22 07:46:54 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 0 0

It has been said that ‘there is only one truth but facts are many’. If this is the case then either we are totally devoid of Truth, or Truth is what are based upon. We know we are not without truth in us therefore we want to know all Truth but we cannot be the all Truth, and we cannot be all evil either. We are in fact factual expressions or physical forms of one single Truth.

The reasons behind our need for recalibration and ‘checking out’ for balance are not internal; they are external or alien to our essential being. We need to retrace our steps back to righteousness and goodness just because there are things around that are not Truth. Things we have experienced in opposition to our wellbeing. The reason for doing this is not natural to us. We have an innate urge to do be right, to be know as right and do right things for supreme causes that WE identify ourselves with.

If we are merely what we have been taught to be then what about the people who taught us, and the people in the beginning who taught those who teach us now? We have need and ability to learn, and then we choose to learn what we sense is right for us to learn. This all belong essentially to us and we did not get all this from any outsider source.

Nevertheless, if I assume a subjective stance upon life for a moment and say – I am the way I have been brought up. Or I am what I know I am. This does not take into consideration what I do not know, and what I could have been if brought up differently. These are limiting thoughts and very narrowly personal point of view. But even things like this and believing in this does not take away my capacities to be what I can be and, if not necessarily what I can know through experience, what I should be to be right and good.

All sorts of teaching and means of acquisition of knowledge build us our personality. It is like providing for our mind a dress or a uniform for the purposes of living and behaving in the world purposefully. Our essential human nature with all its capacities of development and improvement, stay unaffected all that while we spend dressing up. We are naturally open to wider opportunities of all possible encounters and ever so more better and wonderful experiences of Truth.

We intuitively know and sense that Truth is there but we cannot have it all, or know it all. We seek avidly and enthusiastically. We want to get to what we see with our inner eye, and we want to get there unrealistically fast – this is our problem. We want to acquire, achieve and posses but we do not want to be what we seek because we do not know how to let go of what we are in order to be what we want to be, and can be.

2006-09-22 02:53:24 · answer #2 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0 0

If we are taught correctly from an early age, then we will have the ability to learn and evaluate new information.
I prefer to get my news through osmosis... I look at how it is reported from many sources and evaluate my opinion based on the information I receive. It's important to question everything and keep knowledge up to date... we are not, after all, a bunch of automatons.
2 alternative sites must be balanced with many others including conventional/mainstream ones... this will give you many choices.

2006-09-21 17:59:55 · answer #3 · answered by tattooed.dragon 3 · 1 0

part of what we know is what is taught but through each individual interpretation over rules and we make our own assumptions of 'truth' I always like to say truth is in the mind of the beholder no matter if something is a pr oven fact our opinions outweighs that belief sometimes

2006-09-21 07:06:40 · answer #4 · answered by Missbribri 5 · 1 0

The "truth" is what you concieve as "true". Jesus was "the son of God" (Judo-Christian), "a significant prophet" (muslim), "a myth" (atheist). And so on, ad infinitum. We all believe what we believe until someone demonstrates to us that we may be mistaken, when we may, but not "do", take another look, and might, but not "will", adopt a different "truth"

2006-09-21 17:34:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Amen

2006-09-21 07:07:00 · answer #6 · answered by The Foosaaaah 7 · 1 0

very good sites man. thanks

also check out the movie "Loose change" 2nd edition on google videos

it opened my eyes

2006-09-21 07:07:58 · answer #7 · answered by vick 5 · 1 0

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