Posted on 10/15/2021 2:47:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
In an era of rampant misinformation, propaganda, and biased opinion in politics and society, you may have at least once asked yourself - what is the truth and how do I go about determining truth to save my sanity?
As long back as I can remember, I was always obsessed with the truth. In my personal, childish, opinion, either something was true or it was a lie and this is the absolute attitude that many children and some adults have before they realize that absolute truths seem few and far between and lies and half truths are quite numerous. Many truths are not absolute which means that they may be true 90% of the time and untrue or false 10% of the time. Similarly, a truth may be true only 10% of the time and false 90% of the time. The percentages vary depending on what truth that you are talking about.
Up until my last year in high school, when I took physics, I deluded myself into thinking that science would have all the answers to any question which could be asked and was the true source of all truths. Then I was shocked when I learned about Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle which stated that you could no longer measure the exact location and velocity of an atomic particle because the act of measuring the phenomenon with light altered the position of the atomic particle so that you could never be sure where the particle actually was. From that moment on I knew or understood that science would never have all the answers to all the mysteries of nature or the universe or would never be able to quantify or clearly show how nature or the universe worked, especially with respect to human behavior.
What is truth?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.” ~ George Orwell
The idea that human ethical behavior can be established using statistics is naive beyond belief.
Put an Almighty God and His book into the equation.
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