What is the Truth? (church, Commandment, Jews, sunday)

[mordant]

Originally Posted by Jumbo10

Just curious as it's mentioned from time to time.

If you say you know the Truth with a capital T what are you referring to?

Or if you're someone who reads the Truth on here, what does it mean to you?

I believe that truth is something that can be usefully approached but not objectively and finally attained. There is therefore no such thing as capital-T Truth.

Truth (basically, societal consensus about what comprises the set of data that constitutes established fact) is relative, contextual, and therefore only relatively and contextually "objective". It is fostered by how fully one apprehends the corpus of data that is available on a topic, the effectiveness of the epistemological approach to that data, the (il)logic of one's handling of the data.

Given that most people have their thought processes riven with failed epistemologies such as religious faith, and do not even really make self-awareness and other-centeredness a priority, the light of truth in the world, such as it is, tends to be a guttering candle more often than a roaring bonfire. Particularly in these dark times, when the darker angels of our nature are reasserting themselves. I was out of town over the weekend, pretty much disconnected and out of touch, and literally checked the morning news today to make sure we're not at nuclear war (yet). So it goes ...

[Richard1965]

Originally Posted by Jumbo10

Just curious as it's mentioned from time to time.

If you say you know the Truth with a capital T what are you referring to?

Or if you're someone who reads the Truth on here, what does it mean to you?

The Torah....

[Lumpino]

Truth abou a God? About a Religion?
What a meditation about a god/goddess name? And ask him/her what he/she thinking about? Like it performs Hindu bhaktijogis (See Ramakrishna and his visoion of Kali), Hebrew kabbalists (see Sefer Raziel hamalach), Christian mystics and many others? But, take it a longer time. If you have not too much time, so you could used sleep (the last thoughts before bedtime) like in ancient Egypt and Greece......

[GoCardinals]

Originally Posted by Orion Rules

Well, gosh, it's not true that the more one studies they will not eventually see that something that small really isn't all that little.

Just a single star in sky that when it went up straight right over a certain area of land that when it hit the exact moment lentils.

That the Egyptians could know exactly when to plant crops to be harvested: Sirius star it's called re: annual flooding of the Nile.

So, it is false the more we study we will never find out how God plants the fields himself twice watered with the early and latter.

So if confusion persists as to why whole lakes are being created where cities do their business, perhaps it has to do with cattle.

That they belong to the LORD not man, to eat away the flesh, as to when man is consumed in the sockets of his eyes for villas.

Psalm 50:10~ For every beast of the forest is his, the cattle on a thousand hills, man's stolen from the LORD for blood sacrifices.

The LORD shall cleanse the Earth of everything which inhibits the handiwork of God from spreading forth as he told those animals.

"Be fruitful and multiply" the scripture has not changed that God intends to have Kingdom called his not filthy lucre ch. 1 Genesis.

There's only one religion that's right and it's the same one started out in Genesis ch. 1 that he created everything in just 6 days.

Day 7 it is finished the same way he said it was that if man wants to know where to begin from that is the place he said he rests.

Keep defying what the Lord said straight in the beginning as do so at your own behest save that all are rained upon for injustices.

"The Gospel Essene of Peace", "The Gospel of the Holy Twelve", God is a consuming fire and water is just the beginning for spaces.

Then go check out "The Egyptian Book of the Dead" and see if hell is real or if love is all God is about; well it's good to never guess.

Read a few lines in the start and honestly, I have no idea what are you talking about.

[Rafius]

Originally Posted by Matthew 4:4

After on prisoner started studying the Bible someone said to him that he was being brainwashed.
He replied that the bad condition his brain was in that his brain needed a good washing.

Isn't it amazing just how many prisoners 'find' Jesus...just as the doors close behind them....and then lose him and return to crime when they come out.

[L8Gr8Apost8]

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.


Umberto Eco

[L8Gr8Apost8]

Originally Posted by Matthew 4:4

After on prisoner started studying the Bible someone said to him that he was being brainwashed.
He replied that the bad condition his brain was in that his brain needed a good washing.

So cringe worthy. That's exactly what someone who is under the influence WOULD say. Example here:

https://youtu.be/M0xf2Hdxo6o?t=37m8s

[Pleroo]

Originally Posted by L8Gr8Apost8

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.


Umberto Eco

I believe Umberto is on to something important there.

[nateswift]

Originally Posted by Pleroo

I believe Umberto is on to something important there.

I think you are right. Most importantly in the matter of doctrines. Boy howdy how ANY variance from the accepted formulae causes closed minds! A little laughter would be a breath of fresh air.

[L8Gr8Apost8]

Originally Posted by Pleroo

I believe Umberto is on to something important there.

One more by him then?

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.