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Re: Why the inability to fathom absolute truths?

Greetings Ayinde,

and i give thanks for the response, illuminating as always...

I agree that the distinction between what i have labelled facts and truth may be a false one, in no small part due to the inadequacy of language to convey what i am trying to express.

So like yourself i will rely on a combination of experience and learning to have another go at this.

The trouble with a great many facts is that they are frequently a moving target. Iwil give an example. The speed of light is a fact, yes? According to the good old wikipedia "1,079,252,848.8 km·h-1, which is approximately 186,282.397 miles per second"

Well, as it turns out, perhaps not. According to the engineers that i work with the speed of light is in fact an average, photons being subject to the same kind of wacky variation that makes quantaum mechanics so head spinningly difficult to come to grips with (at least for the likes of me)Some light travels slower than the speed of light, and some travels faster, which is supposedly impossible. In fact some scientists have actually been working out a way of making a special kind of light that travels faster than light by filtering for the quick photons.

Anyway, all of that was be means of trying to point out that even seemingly incontrovertable facts may be, well, un-facts as it turns out.

Overall transcendant truth, of which the idea of univesal origin is a component that i too would agree with is also a bit problematic. As far as my understanding extends it is, in its overall sense, inexpressable. And often has to compete with the many 'expressed' and dogmatic version of truth that exist.

I am not sure that this makes much more sense than my last effort, but such is the nature of the truth. if i had 1 cent for every word that has been expending through time in trying to define the nature of truth i would make Bill Gates look like a pauper.

love and life
paul

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