Comments on: There is no absolute truth http://www.marclehmann.net/2008/01/there-is-no-absolute-truth/ are you playing the game or watching from the stands? Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:28:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Marc http://www.marclehmann.net/2008/01/there-is-no-absolute-truth/#comment-62 Marc Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:33:01 +0000 http://www.marclehmann.net/2008/01/there-is-no-absolute-truth/#comment-62 I agree blatantly accepting anything as truth its dangerous, nearly as dangerous as when people declare they have the truth and everyone else is wrong.... I'm just saying there are some things where it wont hurt anyone and while it cannot be proved Santa doesn't exist it's ok to let my kids believe. After all he is real, his name is St. Nicholas. He was a real person, a Christian who received great wealth from inheritance and gifted it to the poor. Sure the story has changed over the years a lot, that's just the magic you add to make a good story. Everything is just a story while the truth isn't know. The Atom was a story, it wasn't the smallest particle. The earth being square was a story etc. I'll post an after thought. Thanks for your comment! :) I agree blatantly accepting anything as truth its dangerous, nearly as dangerous as when people declare they have the truth and everyone else is wrong….

I’m just saying there are some things where it wont hurt anyone and while it cannot be proved Santa doesn’t exist it’s ok to let my kids believe. After all he is real, his name is St. Nicholas. He was a real person, a Christian who received great wealth from inheritance and gifted it to the poor. Sure the story has changed over the years a lot, that’s just the magic you add to make a good story. Everything is just a story while the truth isn’t know. The Atom was a story, it wasn’t the smallest particle. The earth being square was a story etc. I’ll post an after thought. Thanks for your comment! :)

]]> By: john evans http://www.marclehmann.net/2008/01/there-is-no-absolute-truth/#comment-61 john evans Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:48:39 +0000 http://www.marclehmann.net/2008/01/there-is-no-absolute-truth/#comment-61 I like your example of the coke bottle. Truth, it seems to me, is just like you illustrate with infinite layers of deeper understanding. But I would suggest rather than saying there is no truth there instead is truth (reality) but we can only glimpse it. There are countless examples of things where glimpsing it is quite sufficient. It is true to say that there are tree in California. One cannot just make up truth and say there are no trees in California without being considered a little dangerous. To tell your children they can just believe what ever they want is also very dangerous. We should remain open to all possibilities but use a scale of probability to determine if invisible pink unicorns or santa exists. Why waste our time devoting our lives to delusions when we could be really trying to get a better understanding of reality? Or easing suffering? Thanks again for your post. I like your example of the coke bottle. Truth, it seems to me, is just like you illustrate with infinite layers of deeper understanding. But I would suggest rather than saying there is no truth there instead is truth (reality) but we can only glimpse it. There are countless examples of things where glimpsing it is quite sufficient. It is true to say that there are tree in California. One cannot just make up truth and say there are no trees in California without being considered a little dangerous. To tell your children they can just believe what ever they want is also very dangerous. We should remain open to all possibilities but use a scale of probability to determine if invisible pink unicorns or santa exists. Why waste our time devoting our lives to delusions when we could be really trying to get a better understanding of reality? Or easing suffering? Thanks again for your post.

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