What can we say is 'true' nowadays?

Question

Please don't launch in with 'Jesus Christ' unless you're prepared to make a good argument for it.

For goodness sake, stop sulking, Christians! You are perfectly entitled to say Jesus is the truth --I'm just asking for a good reason why! Honestly...

Answer 1

What is the point of this question?

You dont believe in objective truth... well, youre wrong.

Pulling out the "everything is subjective" card is what people do that tire of thinking too hard about their lifestyle choices and the problems that plague our world. Our society hasnt only bred individuality... its bred apathy and laziness... its bred egocentricism and arrogances... its bred hedonism.

People give up on the world and on their lives because its hard to fight everyone else... but few consider changing themselves. Its hard to change yourself, even. Everyone selfishly wants their problems to go away without considering that their views and habits in life -is- the problem.

And the easiest way to justify a lack of control and continued personal failure and continued problems in our world is to say "hey... everything is subjective... so why try?" "Why try? Lets live for the here and now, for ourselves... " "Why should -I- change?"... "Why should I contribute or voice myself... what can I possibly do for the world?"

And those problems persist as a result.

And to prove peoples arrogance and egocentricism... watch as my down thumbs pile up. Im calling them out at the bottom of my post, since I know they wont read it up until here anyway... because they will be so personally offended and turned off by the prospects of my argument.

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In response to your Additional Details, I now see the point of this post. Thanks for your anti-Christian bigotry... I like knowing some things in our world dont change.

I dont have to be Christian, or religious even, to firmly believe in an objective truth/morality.

Answer 2

I am about to answer this question - True

I live therefore I am - true

Everything I just said is a lie - not True

There are so many way to look at truths. I have only used two to show that there can be differences and each one that reads them will have a different out come to the three lines.

Bottom Line: To say what is true is the some as what is right and wrong. From group to group it will differ and we must then fall back on the one line of a great writer: To thy own self be true. and that to me is the only truth nowadays.

Live Long Live Free - True

Answer 3

noun

the quality or state of being true; specif.,
- (Obsolete definition) loyalty; trustworthiness
- sincerity; genuineness; honesty
- the quality of being in accordance with experience, facts, or reality; conformity with fact
- reality; actual existence
- agreement with a standard, rule, etc.; correctness; accuracy
that which is true; statement, etc. that accords with fact or reality
- an established or verified fact, principle, etc.
a particular belief or teaching regarded by the speaker as the true one:

Just because you don't know what is "true" doesn't mean that "truth" doesn't exist.

By one definition, sincerity is truth. Because it is defined that way, this is one example of truth.

Conformity to facts... therefore, when more facts become clear, that doesn't mean the prior truth wasn't true based upon the facts present at that time.

BTW: I'm Christian.

Answer 4

Truth is really subjective anymore. In other words, there is no truth. A rock may appear solid, but from a different perspective you see that the molecules are still seperated, just like in every other substance.

Haha, you forewarned everyone and you still had people say jesus stuff?

Answer 5

Something is true for you and the same thing is not true for others, like for example, what taste sweet for you, has not taste for a cat.
The truth in this mundane reality is relative and the truth in the spiritual world is absolute, it is perfect.

Answer 6

Nature.

Answer 7

It's all in your head, it's all in your head! And in books! In our ancestor's experience. In our experience. In our past, present and future.
The truth is, that you never know what is really going to happen in the next five minutes....

Answer 8

i think the only thing that is completely true is doubt. basically a lot of things seem real but theres always doubt regardless of everything - cos you cant be sure of anything - even ur own existance. (but we just assume everything else.)

Answer 9

The truth is only what YOU believe is truth. Christians look for their truth in churches, I look for it inside my brain.

Answer 10

If we are enlightened we realize that real 'truth' is pretty rare. We believe stuff, we act as if it was true, for us it is true. We don't expect others to feel obligated to see it the same as we do.

Scientific 'fact' is about as close as we can come to truth, and even there no 'fact' is absolute, it is only tentative, pending the discovery of more evidence.

The only place you find absolute 'truth' is in religious doctrine. But of course you have to subscribe to the doctrine to believe that it is 'truth'. And often in talking to religious people who believe these 'truths', I get the idea that they don't really understand them, they only profess them because those are the truths people of that faith are supposed to profess.