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• James Sirois. There is an infinitely transcendental truth which is absolute, and all relationships to it are the relative truths that emerge from it (subjective Individuals).
• Haris Shekeris. I have been a relativist about truth and I am trying to reconcile this with assigning a bit of a special status to number 0,1,2 and 3 and to shapes such as the line, the circle and the triangle. 'Truth cannot be known, it can be felt' resonates with me and circulates in my brain.
• Jon Brett. What is your relationship with truth? (How do you deal with truth in your life? What does truth mean to you personally?) Truth is a metaphor for our experience within a specific context. Where experience within a specific context might be equivalent to perspective. Physics suggests that as soon as you add an observer to a situation, the situation changes. My take on absolute truth is that we can search for the boundaries of experience where that "truth" always seems to apply - in most people's experience. Because everyone is different, we need to allow for variation in experience, and also that the context may not have defined the boundary of truth precisely enough. For example, we used to think the world was flat, and this "absolute truth" was useful when most people never travelled more than 100 miles. I am sure that a very small minority disagreed with this "absolute truth" but remained true for most people. What is your deepest value in life which includes all of your other values? Interdependence. Adventure is a value that motivates me, but at a more abstract level, the idea of interdependence perhaps includes adventure where you must depend on Nature, but also respect it and be dependably sustainable. Interdependence values diversity and that introduces a challenging paradox. I must also value other people's valuing dependence or independence and conformity (just another example of diversity). The challenge then, is how to be interdependent with those individuals also. For me, that is an adventure!
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