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Truth ain't what it used to be
Once upon a time there used to be "Truth" with a capital "T." Everybody knew it, agreed that it was so, and navigated their lives accordingly. Kind of like an internal spiritual GPS.
Once upon a time there used to be "Truth" with a capital "T."
Everybody knew it, agreed that it was so, and navigated their lives accordingly. Kind of like an internal and social spiritual GPS.
But at the same time, we are quite aware of that any given human being's capacity for recording truth is not especially high.
Who can argue, after a dozen years of CSI television programming, that anyone of us has a handle on a Truth we can all agree upon?
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It seems that we confuse "occurring reality," the way things seem to us, with "the Truth".
They are not the same and confusing the two is deadly to our relationships.
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What most of us call reality is much closer to our opinion than fact or truth. What we have labeled as true is:
- our belief about the data in view,
- how it came to be that way, and
- how we expect it to go in the future
At best we are left with "our truth" alongside "their truth," and we hope that our subjective truths together land somewhere in the general vicinity of what actually happend...
In relationshps confusing the truth with how things occur to us is toxic to love and intimacy.
What is your truth? Do you have one? Can you support it objectively in a way we can all agree upon?
How does truth function in your relationships?