Zangetshumody
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I hope there is no objective truth, not so that we are free to flounder, but so that we are free to grow. unleashed.
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That is one of the things I hoped to accomplish here: finding overlaps.(I read some other posts just now and it looks like this has already been said. heh)
To answer or for your liking?There are too few accepted universal truths.
There are too few accepted universal truths.
[*]Look into yourself.
[*]Feel, think about, grasp at the idea of truth that you find in there.
[*]Ponder the best way to put it into words.
[*]Put it into words.
[*]Submit it.[/list]
Welcome!
The purpose of this thread is to survey the various conceptions of truth that are ingrained in your minds. In order to participate and win a rabbit, please go by the following steps:
It is neither necessary nor requested that you think about how truth should be, could be, or is defined by others. It is all about you.
- Look into yourself.
- Feel, think about, grasp at the idea of truth that you find in there.
- Ponder the best way to put it into words.
- Put it into words.
- Submit it.
I hope your answer will in itself answer the following question; if it does not, however, please answer: According to your conception of truth, what is required for statement 'x'* to be true?
* 'x' could be anything, for instance, 'Yeshua of Nazareth died on the cross'.
What is true for me are certain things I don't understand. I don't understand why integrity is so over-ridingly important for me. I can't understand why I almost make a fetish of intellectual integrity. I don't understand why integrity is a real thing for me.
Of course I can see that compromise is useful, even necessary in the world, but my heart isn't in it.
I think that the answer, in the rag and bone yard of my heart, is that integrity brings me joy.
I'm going to throw this comment out there: Nobody really cares about Universal Truth.
This seems to me to be the ultimate in reductionism - reducing a rich, complex, joyful, living person to two letters.
The concept behind those two letters is extremely rich and complex.
I see MBTI as narrow and impoverished, designed to reduce living persons to types so we can be categorised and manipulated for the benefit of those in power.
And that's why I said Fi and not Ti.
You don't actually value intellectual integrity.
You value integrity to your own subjective value judgments.
And there is nothing wrong with that.
It is who you are.
An Fi-dom.