You can't handle the truth

The truth. How do we know something is absolutely true? Is there such a thing as truth?

In class we each presented an object or a statement that we thought to be true objectively. How can we know if there are really an infinite number of points in a circle, and how do we know if the cover of a DVD box really displays what the DVD is about? To be honest, there is no real answer. It might or might not be true, depending on how you look at it.

In 1984 the people their truth is manipulated easily because the government makes up and changes the past, the words and the truth every day. The citizens are manipulated in believing everything they’re told, but is their truth the truth? What is true to one person doesn’t have to be true for everyone. If the truth changes everyday then it can’t be an objective truth. That’s why the definitions for words in a dictionary aren’t objectively true. Definitions change and word’s meanings change every day because we give them different meanings. Laws of Physics are relatively true because we can’t prove them wrong anyhow. Then again we base our judgments on our senses, on what we see, hear or feel. And people might sense something different than the others and then the law might be proven wrong to that one person. Also if the person is blindfolded, how do we know something is happening? A good example of that is the law of conservation of momentum of a pendulum. Even if you are blindfolded, the pendulum will not hit you and you can therefore prove to yourself that even though you didn’t see the pendulum swing back and forth, that it didn’t hit you and didn’t swung back higher than before.

Believing something is true gives us security. We feel safe when we don’t have to question everything. When we can believe the cup we’re drinking our coffee out is red, then we feel safer than if we had to wonder if it was green or red. The truth is something that can be manipulated, and therefore there is probably nothing that is true all the time, everywhere and to everyone. It is hard to define truth because truth is what is true to us, but how do we know everyone sees it the same way? We don’t and therefore we can’t define something as being absolutely true. I think that there is an exception though when it comes to actions. To our personal actions. We know what we did, and how we did it. No one can manipulate our actions in the way that we believe them to be not true. Our personal truth is hard to manipulate unless we believe everything we’re said.