Truth. I used to think that it was a pretty solid word, then I found out otherwise.
I Googled the word today, and about 32, 500, 000 results came up. I’m not even going to pretend that I looked at them all, but I did sift through quite a number of them. Well, five pages, but it took a while. In those five pages, there were political ads, religious beliefs, books, bands, quotes, software and businesses, magazines, blogs, definitions, games, interviews, related searches, and guides. Confused, I set off on a quest to discover: what is the truth, if there is indeed such a thing?
Merriam-Webster says that truth is fidelity, consistency; sincerity in action, character, and utterance. I have no idea what utterance is, but that seemed like a fairly good definition to me. But, wait, there was more- much more! It went on to say that truth is the state of being the case; fact. The body of real things, events, and facts: actuality. Now theres a word for you, actuality. Well, of course, it made the link to “Christian Science” now, there is when it really set in that truth is actually very controversial. But, I didnt let that stop me on my way to the realizing truth (no pun intended). I went back to the main page of Google with hope that there would surely be more solid cases of what the truth is.
I found out that if you want people to think you have “it” whatever “it” may be, you need to say that you are telling the truth. Like Jesus. He always said “truly I say to you…” Maybe thats incredibly irrelevant, but it just stood out to me when I was on my quest.
Well, I’ve been writing this over the course of about three days and I still dont know what truth is. Maybe it’s one of those things that can never been pinned down. To some extent, I feel like a bad blogger for leaving you all (all two of you who faithfully read this) hanging. But, I simply have no idea. I think that possibly Im having my mid-life crisis. I dont know, but if any of you know what the truth is, can you let me know?
that is certainly a question that I’ve never thought too much about.
As far as that’s concerned, I know that truth itself can be explained broadly, but it will never explain itself completely. For it to do that I think it has to be very specific details, like statistics for example or specific religious aspects. and the entire world is biased to their own opinions and such so I don’t think we’ll ever come across that original “definition” per se, which has been warped through the years.
and mid life crisis my butt!! XD I would try to not think this deeply on a regular basis. you might hurt yourself.
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ya? i guess your right about the “no right answer” thing. haha, i wont think too hard about it, i got the prompt from an online prompt-generator and let it bug me for a while, but im pretty over it now. =]