AllTimeJeff wrote: a timely and interesting essay to which I have this to say:
Hey Jeff,

This truth is often all too defined in our minds even before we set out to search for it. The trapping of 'personal truths' as you called them, is that we tend to adopt them because we're comfortable with them. This also the domain of religious 'truth'. Since we basically presume everything we know or is contained within our consciousness regarding reality, religion commits the greatest transgression in claiming an ultimate truth.

Everything we consider to be 'truth' requires collaboration of other (sentient) peers. Otherwise, we start thinking we're just imagining things. Organized religion is a subset collective. Whatever 'truth' is cycled within becomes The truth. It's pretty limited but it feels truthful, real, even ultimate to its adherents as much as it is a blatant lie to others.

My own 'personal truth' is that... there is no truth. There is however, collective awareness. It's a global collaborative effort aided in recent times by the Internet. It has no purpose, no particular meaning though. If it should have one it would become an example truthiness.


The collection of statements in my post were probably not true. Beware!