Posted by
prying1 on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 9:04:29 AM
For
my first Townhall blog post I figured I would drag out, dust off and
re-present to the world my original first post from my
prying1.blogspot.com blog site. First published 12Jan05 - I always
thought this was one of my most important posts because it set the tone
for everything that followed as it will here.
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In
starting my first post to my new blog I find a lot of stuff in my head
wants to come out all at once. One word however comes to the forefront
and might be found to be a recurring theme throughout my blogs.
TRUTH!
As
I have visited other blogs I have found that the majority of those who
post are concerned with accuracy in what they post. When giving
opinions they state so. When reporting on news they provide links. When
they discover they erred, without hesitation, they fess up and offer
corrections.
I believe this is because a lot of bloggers are
concerned with and for the truth. The funny thing about truth is the
adjectives that can go with it. Immutable is one that comes to mind. If
I tell you something, ie... "The sky is blue.", and you take me
outdoors and show me a grey overcast day I find I did not tell you a
truth. I must modify my statement, "The sky is usually or sometimes
blue." If I chose to remain adamant and make excuses I appear to be a
fool.
I cannot claim to tell you a truth one day and then, say a
week later, come up to you and tell you I have a greater truth that
supersedes lasts weeks truth and now makes it null and void. Last weeks
'truth' never was true or perhaps this weeks 'truth' is really flawed.
If conflicting, either one or the other is really true and therefore
conforms to facts and reality.
One problem I have with the
(unchangeable) truth is sometimes I do not like it. I might prefer to
ignore it but it in no way ceases to be the truth because of my
attitude or wishes. So it goes.
Protogoras, the fifth century
B.C. greek Philosopher, maintained that all is illusion, and that there
is no such thing as truth. But Aristotle refuted him by the following
dilemma: " Your proposition is true or false: if it is false then you
are answered: if true, then there is something true, and your
proposition fails."
TRUTH
LOVE IT OR HATE IT,
IT IS BEST TO ACCEPT IT!
Paul Young - prying1 -