“Truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde
I have come to see truth as a useful construction for most people. That doesn’t mean the ‘truth’ they believe isn’t true, it means their reasons for believing it have less to do with it’s truth and more to do with the believer’s needs. The believer wants things to match their world and so constructing a truth that validates that world is very helpful.
But equally interesting is the phenomenon of when a person turns their own world upside down, converts to a new ‘truth’, abandons an old one, rejects prior reasons something was ‘true’. That destruction, or deconstruction, is simply a process by which one ‘truth’ that no longer fits their needs is jettisoned and a new ‘truth’, one closer to reality maybe, maybe not, is found to replace the fallen ‘truth’.
Drawing © 2022 Marty Coleman | napkindad.com
>That is the dilemma, how to share and express something ephemeral, something beyond your grasp in it’s sublime nature. Once you start to express it, which you really want to do, so you can connect to another person in the world, then you start to wall it in as well as give it freedom with the expression.
I agree Chelsea, basically you are saying that naming something means not only does it have that unique name, but it doesn’t have any other name either. All the other options for it’s definition are put away.
Beka, yes the stuff I am learning about in science definitely leaves one to understand that truth is an ever unfolding surrealist origami piece.
>of course she thinks this one is true- its Oscar Wilde! Anyway- I remember once when I was a very strong christian and rebekah was not she told me: the deeper you delve into the “sphere” of religion and spirituality, the closer you are to the other half of the coin- agnosticism. I didn’t believe her at the time, but it was true:) The more I learned about the beauty and truth in the world through spirituality, the more I didn’t want to confine it or call it names. I was so amazed by everything going on that I couldn’t call it God anymore. It almost demeans the beauty in the world to call it by any name….
>Just so you don’t think I only leave comments when I disagree with a quote. I totally agree with this one. ^_^ This is hugely true in neuroscience and I imagine science in general. But even if the truth isn’t pure and simple, it’s very often beautiful.