If you do not know the truth, if you do not know the difference between right and wrong, you should not and must not be involved in politics or public service.
You can tell if you do not know the truth because you will be prone to saying things like "everyone has their own truth" as if 1+1 equals 7 for some people and 1+1 equals 3 for others and these various answers are all the same. Yes, they are all the same: wrong. Not true. There is a post modern myth that comforting lies are "truths" and that people who reject these "truths" are bigots. They would indeed be bigots if the lies were indeed true. But even comforting lies are lies and we are bigots if we support lies. Post modernists and post Marxists are bigots.
Suppose that you have no idea of the truth, like the cultural relativists who think everyone has their own truth. Your actions are then based on subconscious grudges and desires and, worse still, on the ideas of the gangs that you want to join; the groups that it is fashionable to support. If you are a politician and you get into power you will enact your grudges and laws that are fashionable and you will have no true vision for the future. A country that is run by politicians like that will slowly spiral downwards into oblivion. The politicians might be able to convince their fellow lost souls that everything is getting better in every way, every day but none of you would really know whether that was true or not.
The truth cannot be found in words, words are just labels. The truth about objects can be found in the arrangements of objects in the world but this is not a truth about people. There are many people who, when they look at the world, believe that what they are seeing is objects, most people are naive realists. These people have no idea that what they are really seeing is a copy of the objects in the world in their minds. If you do not believe this then look in a mirror and check to see whether your eyes move when you look around your face. What you are seeing is an arrangement of objects in your mind which are copied from the world. The truth about people and the greater truth about the world is to be found in the arrangement of the mind. But what is your mind? What is this place that has dreams, perceptions and imaginings within it? What makes it good? These questions are the stuff of religion.
An Egyptian, considering the causes of the London riots, said of England that: " Religion is no longer even to be talked about." He had spotted that the truth is no longer an issue. Britain is operating on falsehoods and self deceptions and has lost the desire for truth.
You often hear people say that religions caused all the wars in history. Certainly they caused wars that killed millions but they did not cause the wars of the twentieth century that killed scores of millions. Wars are a tragic hazard of being human and are not due to any single factor.
The people who avoid higher truths, the truths about people, know no truth. They might think they gained truth in school but they have missed the essential point that the knowledge taught in school is for children - see: Science and religion
Perhaps the British are especially prone to cultural relativism and moral relativism. The British Empire in the nineteenth century used to run its possessions in the manner of cultural relativists but the home Government was clear about the way forward at home and eventually disbanded the Empire. Curiously it is as if the home Government got lost after the end of Empire and Britain has been left in the hands of the Imperial Government. The trouble is that the Imperial Government has no idea where it is going without a home Government to tell it the truth. Without the truth a culturally relativistic government will just balance and nurture opposing factions until it ceases to govern and the country explodes - as India exploded or Yugoslavia exploded.
see:
Science and religion
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You can tell if you do not know the truth because you will be prone to saying things like "everyone has their own truth" as if 1+1 equals 7 for some people and 1+1 equals 3 for others and these various answers are all the same. Yes, they are all the same: wrong. Not true. There is a post modern myth that comforting lies are "truths" and that people who reject these "truths" are bigots. They would indeed be bigots if the lies were indeed true. But even comforting lies are lies and we are bigots if we support lies. Post modernists and post Marxists are bigots.
Suppose that you have no idea of the truth, like the cultural relativists who think everyone has their own truth. Your actions are then based on subconscious grudges and desires and, worse still, on the ideas of the gangs that you want to join; the groups that it is fashionable to support. If you are a politician and you get into power you will enact your grudges and laws that are fashionable and you will have no true vision for the future. A country that is run by politicians like that will slowly spiral downwards into oblivion. The politicians might be able to convince their fellow lost souls that everything is getting better in every way, every day but none of you would really know whether that was true or not.
The truth cannot be found in words, words are just labels. The truth about objects can be found in the arrangements of objects in the world but this is not a truth about people. There are many people who, when they look at the world, believe that what they are seeing is objects, most people are naive realists. These people have no idea that what they are really seeing is a copy of the objects in the world in their minds. If you do not believe this then look in a mirror and check to see whether your eyes move when you look around your face. What you are seeing is an arrangement of objects in your mind which are copied from the world. The truth about people and the greater truth about the world is to be found in the arrangement of the mind. But what is your mind? What is this place that has dreams, perceptions and imaginings within it? What makes it good? These questions are the stuff of religion.
An Egyptian, considering the causes of the London riots, said of England that: " Religion is no longer even to be talked about." He had spotted that the truth is no longer an issue. Britain is operating on falsehoods and self deceptions and has lost the desire for truth.
You often hear people say that religions caused all the wars in history. Certainly they caused wars that killed millions but they did not cause the wars of the twentieth century that killed scores of millions. Wars are a tragic hazard of being human and are not due to any single factor.
The people who avoid higher truths, the truths about people, know no truth. They might think they gained truth in school but they have missed the essential point that the knowledge taught in school is for children - see: Science and religion
Perhaps the British are especially prone to cultural relativism and moral relativism. The British Empire in the nineteenth century used to run its possessions in the manner of cultural relativists but the home Government was clear about the way forward at home and eventually disbanded the Empire. Curiously it is as if the home Government got lost after the end of Empire and Britain has been left in the hands of the Imperial Government. The trouble is that the Imperial Government has no idea where it is going without a home Government to tell it the truth. Without the truth a culturally relativistic government will just balance and nurture opposing factions until it ceases to govern and the country explodes - as India exploded or Yugoslavia exploded.
see:
Science and religion
Source URL: http://indahrahmadewi.blogspot.com/2011/10/truth.html
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