The Truth
September 29th, 2016
The truth is constantly debated; does it exist? Where can it be found? The truth is often seen as a fact, something indisputable and widely agreed upon. People use this “truth” to invalidate other people’s claims, or their attempts at the truth. People obviously all have different lives and perspectives; however, so how can one person’s truth be more valid than another?
People all have their own truths, so they must contradict at one point, right? Yes, the often do, but the ways they contradict each other vary, and mean different things. Facts are the basis of truths for all people, these ideas are proven and engraved in the mind of all, but how people piece together facts are impossible to predict. So if two people interpret the same fact in two different ways, you can’t call either of them wrong. Depending on who the person is, their interpretation of facts and what they have experienced will never be the same as someone else, leaving everyone with different, complicated truths that will always be impossible to prove or disprove. With that in mind, a truth that undermines facts is no longer a truth, no matter how many people choose to believe it.
Through our limited experiences, we all hold our own truths. These truths, however, are just fragments. To one person, a meal may be too dry, and to another it may be just right. There is a defined way how the chef made the food, but the truths that are taken away by the consumers may differ. These customers’ truths are relative to their own opinions so it doesn’t matter if they disagree, their opinions won’t change. These pieces of truth may all coexist, and what is true to someone is individual for everyone, as are their lives.
As people’s truths are relative to their own personal beliefs, the only concrete way to invalidate truth is through the distortion of facts, the basis for which they are built from. As long as the fundamental ideas are kept in line, one may take the truth however they please, but when the underlying principles are misconstrued, then there is falsehood. When it rains, someone may say it is nice out and someone may say its bad weather, as long as they understand that it is raining they are both speaking their truths. But when someone says “it’s not raining,” that is no longer the truth. Truths are not ideas, they are theories, each one with it’s own reasoning, and as long as it has that basic logic behind it, no one’s truth is less valid than another, and nothing may stand it it’s way.