Fjlotsdale, I'm not talking about absolute truth regarding religion, although it may consequencially apply to that, I'm talking about the theoretical possibility of absolute truth as a concept. Certainly there are cases where what is "truth" is subjective, but at the end of the day, a rock either exists or it does not. We may well merely only percieve it to be so, and it may just be a mental projection of mine for all I know, but in that case it still exists - as a mental projection. Whether it exists as a physical manifestation is also something that is either true or not - regardless on how anyone percieves it. The truth may be hidden, but is at some point absolute whether or not someone percieves it.
I found an unusual situation when I first did interviews. It was said in magazine articles that I was from Gosford (just above Sydney). Another said I was from Perth (Western Australia).
To anyone that read those articles (and cared) I come from Gosford. If that was the limit of any record of my life, "Yorick" came from Gosford, so that becomes the percieved truth in any record left to posterity.
The absolute truth was something totally different.
I'm not talking in purely theological terms, though this does have theological consequences. The theological ponderings are as a result of the exploration of the concept of absolute truth - not the other way round.
The result is that either the universes creator awareness exists as a separate enity from the universe, or it does not. Of course there are other theories, but in purely focussing on this one "he" either exists or not. "He" cannot both exist and not exist at the same time.
How could you explain that? If "he" exists purely as a construct of peoples minds then he is not existing in the sense to which I am referring. We will not ultimately know the absolute truth in this regard, but it is there.
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I am the walrus!.... er, no hang on....
A fair dinkum laughing Hyena!
[This message has been edited by Yorick (edited 05-18-2001).]