Do you believe there is absolute truth, or is truth only what people percieve it to be?

Question

do you think that what we see as truth is percieved by all to be true, or is it only the truth because individuals percieve it to be the truth and therefore they make it truth.
Please provide a supporting arguement for your answer, or a list of what you believe to be absolute truth...

alright, not to get into a religious arguement but to say that god is absolute truth is wrong, not because he does or doesnt exist but because you cannot know whether god exists or not, therefore it cannot be absolute truth, but you believe he does exist so this is the truth as you percieve it to be not absolute truth. Its true because you believe its true but others dont know if this is the absolute truth ( for example atheists and agnostics) Im not bashing god just bringing up a good example
ps. I am agnostic

Answer 1

I do not think there is an absolute truth. Someone used 1+1=2 as an example. There is a philosophy argument (I believe) that argues that. Anything and everything can be questioned or argued.

The example you used also has a basis in faith. The more faith you have the more you believe it to be true. People have a tendancy to make it the truth when they believe it strong enough. It can also be based on events that people just get wrong. Here's an example.

A red car comes flying through a red light and hit's a young boy crossing the street. The boy is carrying a pinwheel. When he gets hit the pin wheel lands on the side of his head as the car speeds away. 20 people see it all from different angles. The police get different stories from just about everyone because of their "point of view" including one that says it was a girl because of the bow in her hair (Remember the pin wheel?). Each one believes what they saw to be the truth.

There are things that are "Common Truths". The sky is blue, water is wet, ect. But there is stil the argument. "IS it?"

Good question, Let the debating begin!

Answer 2

All truths that can be observed in the world through sensual perceptions, mind and intellect are relative.

Some are more absolute than the others. Some being almost to the extent of being "absolute". For all practical purposes those truths can be considered as being absolute in the world.

Like if one is in U.S.A. then one observes that the sun rises in the east.
Or a human being needs food, liquid and nourishment to live a good and healthy life of a normal person.
Or honesty is a good virtue.
For all practical purposes one may consider the above truths as being absolute. But in reality they are not 100 % absolute.

See how Albert Einstein has proved that even quantities like Time and Space are relative and not absolute.

The only thing considered absolute in the Theory of Relativity (and General Theory of Relativity) is the speed of light through "free space".
However there is always a possibility that the way the great Einstein proved Time and Space to be relative in contrast to the previous scientists and the previous scientific principles a later day's scientist may prove the Speed of light to be Relative too.

But that does neither prove nor disprove the existence of an absolute truth.

In a nutshell if an absolute truth exists it is only 1 and one can not get to it, neither prove or disprove anything about it through logic and intellectual arguments and explanations. (If it is not 1 it can not remain absolute truth but will become somewhat relative at a certain level or from some perspective).

If one wants to find out about the absolute truth including its existence then One has to go on a "True Search".

Answer 3

Truth works. Lies do not. Complete truths work better than partial truths.

Think about it: If you decided tomorrow that you could fly by flapping your arms, that stones were edible, and that cars could operate on ice cream instead of gasoline, how well do you think that would work out? It wouldn't. Those are all completely untrue.

If you decided that people liked being punched in the face when you saw them, and you didn't end up in jail, you would probably soon find yourself surrounded only by people who DO like to be punched in the face. This is a good demonstration of the 'Pygmalion effect' - sometimes you can MAKE something true by acting as if it were, if only locally.

And then we come to some of the more ephemeral things. Like ice cream. Is it true that chocolate tastes better than vanilla? For some people, absolutely. For others, absolutely not.

Likewise, some people find their lives immensely enhanced by believing in a god. Some find it likewise improved by not doing so. And for each of those people, their version of reality is true for the simple reason that it works for them. At least during their lifespan (all bets are off for the next life).

Or, to put it another way - if the point is to come up with a way NOT to get to work, maybe putting ice cream in your car DOES make it work better for your purposes. If the point is to deal with the grief that you feel when someone dies, maybe it IS true if you believe that person always hated you anyway, or that they're not really dead after all. In this sense, there are quite a few rather odd things that are completely true, just not for most of us: aliens, conspiracy theories, and faeries to name a few.

This is part of the point of science - to distinguish universal, objective truths from those which are more subjective and personal. But make no mistake: just as there are truths which must be so for everyone, so too are there truths that can be completely different for each person.

Answer 4

There are some absolute truths - you can't change the laws of physics, although our perception and understanding of those laws changes.

There are some moral truths, whether you take them on faith, or believe them experimentally - communities that place a high value on life, voluntary compassion and sacrifice toward others, and a tolerance of other, less significant beliefs have wealthier societies, longer lifespans, and an overall higher quality of life than communities without such grounding.

But those absolute truths are few - the nature of God, whether we have the right to take our own lives, or the lives of criminals, or the lives of an developing embryo - are far from absolute.

Answer 5

You look at truth from the wrong type of perception. As a Indian Medicine Man I look at such things in regards to their energetic facts- the energy of it it ! Everything runs on energy my dear, even that volt and a half that runs from the sinus node in your heart down to your heartwall to make it beat ! Electricity never dies just changes form after it is unable to flow. Quite trying to imagine God or the Creator as a little man somewhere out in the sky, he is all there is, the energy going on inside the trees, in animals and birds and plants and rocks, inside the core of the earth itself and all that is in the existence of the universes. Think of supreme intelligence that is total energy -a flowing emcompassing flow of electrical spirit that can shapeshift into any form desireable. The book of John states in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God and through him all things came into being. A word is your intent, a verb that shows action and action is energy in movement. If I say I am going to the store that shows intent and energy movement. Some the Word Jesus Christ is that energy that was used to create and also has supreme intelligent. What was the Creators will and intent? It was to put forms of thought into spirits and put some spirits into solid mass. Good wishes Chief Weylin Lighteagle

Answer 6

i don't think that there is absolute truth, but there is just truth from what people percieve it to be. think about it, everything in this world might not be what it really is, but its just what we think or percieve it to be. how are we sure that 1+1 actually equals 2, as crazy as that sounds. we'd love to believe that it does. so therefore, theres only truth, but no such thing as absolute truth.

Answer 7

Although there is not an absoluteness in our universe, yes, ther's
only an absolute truth, which is the exact consideration, the exact
place,time, form and event.That which works. And that which works most broadly to what which it is applied. Truth by definition is what is. (LRH)
What we see maybe not the truth.What we see around us is what we agreed upon to existing. Truth is what was in the first place and we could reach,probably, by elimination. Absolute truth
-the way it was presented-has no time,space,form,wave-length,
matter or energy. It is a static.-

Ciao.........John-John.

Answer 8

There are two truths, the first is anything that meets common agreement or acceptance and can be proven by empirical knowledge ,science or plain common sense and may as well serve as absolute truth . The second truth is that the first truth is always liable to amendment.

Answer 9

You are what you perceive. However, I will tell you this Truth and there is no other among all that is in this world. God is the Almighty living God and there is no other.
(Exd 20:3) Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
(Jer 25:6) And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
Therefore, it’s kind of like this.
You exist right, for now. Moreover, you made me to do for you, obey you, and even love you. What if I were not to ever acknowledge you existence at all, ever. How crazy would that make you? You see the point?

Answer 10

there is absolute truth : God
there is truth : 1+ 1 = 2
1/2 the truth : what bosses, dads, presedents show and tell
kind of the truth : a person ur talkin with on line
+ made up truth : media
and there is no truth = lie : every day deal