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Old 05-18-2001, 11:58 AM   #21
Fljotsdale
Thoth - Egyptian God of Wisdom
 

Join Date: March 12, 2001
Location: Birmingham, West Mid\'s, England
Age: 88
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Originally posted by Yorick:

OK Fjlotsdale, let's move past postmodernism for a moment and hypothesise about say: an affair in a marriage, an incurable disease, the knowledge of nuclear weapons, the knowledge of the matrix, the knowledge of how others really percieve you or that you are adopted etc etc etc.
Was that postmodernism? (Fljotsdale blinks in somewhat stunned amazement )
I never did that. Avoided it like the plague. Must be in the air I breath, lol!
As for the points you raise: yes. I see what you are saying, and part of me agrees with you - but another part keeps saying 'hang on a minute, it ain't necessarily so!'
Ok, the mother/grandmother bit etc, is valid - but so is the bit about the hamburger/vegetarian. And anyway, who is to say that there IS any Absolute Truth?
Scientists are currently trying hard to construct a theory of 'everything' that will reconcile contradictory 'facts' about the universe. They think that if they come up with a theory that works they will have solved the mystery of the origin of the universe.
Believers in a god think they already know the answer, and that science is wasting its time. Both are going for the jackpot of Absolute Truth - and it is highly unlikely that they will have the same conclusion. But to each of them THEIR truth is/will be Absolute.
And who will be right? Will either of them be proved right in the long run? Or will a little green alien arrive from the depths of space with its own version and who should we believe then?
We CANNOT presently define truth in anything other than limited, partial ways based on our own experience. Truth is largely subjective rather than objective. Even in science and Religion!
IMHO!

Life experience is a case in point. Like yourself and many others, I have endured a lot and it has inevitably coloured my outlook. Someone without such unpleasantness in their life will see the world with very different eyes, even when viewing the same things we do. Which viewpoint is true? BOTH are!
Would I change my life experience? Well, it has made me who I am, and helped me to understand others. But, yes, I would change it if I could so that my children could have grown up in a happy, secure family. They would not now be so beset by lack of confidence etc.. But that's life.
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Fljotsdale

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