Sunday, March 12, 2006

What is Truth?

We're all living in denial, but everybody refused to accept that (and thus, Denial!). Doublethink is not a fictional Orwellian word, it's happening to everybody. We've all been selectively believing in wat we want to believe to be true, and selectively rejecting the rest. And yet we all claim that we have Truth in our hands, objective truth, when the truth is all of our standards of truth are made in subjective terms, influenced by our personal experience, may it be interpreted as accidental or divine.

"What is truth?" Pontius Pilate asked. We all should be asking the same questions ourselves. Cuz none of us seems to have the answer. The best answer I can think of is "Jesus is truth", but honestly, wat exactly does that mean? And why didn't Jesus reply Pilate then, when faced with such a question?

What is Truth? Why has the answer been so elusive all this while? Or perhaps there never was, never is, and never will be, an answer? That truth is however we choose to view the world, whatever we choose to define the meaning/ purpose of our existense? That truth can only be understood from within, shaped by the lived experiences of reality as each individual defined them, in their own respective manner?

That truth is subjectivity? Or perhaps there never is truth in this world, but only in the one beyond? Then all search of truth in this world will amount to nothing, and only a leap of faith brings a solution to this dilemma? A decision made, based not upon rational thoughts or analysis, but upon surrendering our trust to the highest Being, and believe, without adequate or substancial evidence or understanding of any kind?

Is Faith the answer to Truth then? Or at least, the path that will one day leads us to Truth itself... whatever it is?

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