Teachings,+3-Dimensional+Truth

=3-Dimensional Truth= (By Sam)(ael) (Return to Teachings)

How many times have you had trouble debating or even just discussing things with other people because their views of the truth were different? It happens a lot even if it has not happened to you yet. Why is this?

There are a lot of arguments about the nature of truth. -Some say that some things are true forever. No matter what, or where. -Others say that truth changes and things that used to be right or wrong change with the times, thus moral truth is entirely created by people. -Others say, truth is a misconception. Who can ever really know any one thing in all of it's facets, and thus know the truth of it? -And some, just don't care about truth in any form of fashion.

This subject addressed why this is, and presents my own views of the nature of truth.

Most people view truth in a two dimensional way. If you will imagine that 'truth' is like a square drawn on a piece of paper, people often compare truth in a two dimensional way. If they believe that that square is the whole truth than any other drawing on the page (beliefs, morals, oppinions) should never touch that square. The space it takes up is absolute in their minds and that is how they judge their world. The shapes they call truth block out everything else in the picture.

The reality of truth is that it is three dimensional. Like a wooden post holding up the roof in your house. No matter how many different-looking angle you can take on the same thing, the same 'truth' it is real. And it holds up your house. If you try to walk through the truth it will put a real bruise on your head.

Remember, a three dimensional object looks different at different angles, a two-dimensional object can only be viewed as it was drawn, or in the exact opposite (if you look at the picture from the opposite side it was drawn on).

This is why truth is so confused. People think about it as a two-dimensional component of their lives. They think everyone will see it the same and even if it was true. People could just as easily see the reversed side and lose all of the meaning of your picture. When you view a reversed picture it loses all meaning pretty quickly.

(//Truth as one person sees it//)

But a three-dimensional object is physically real. It may look different from several angles, but the space it takes up is undisputed. So in this way we learn that though many of us have different oppinions on truth, we may all be right. From a certain point of view.

(//Truth as another person sees it. Missing some meaning isn't it//?)

This is both a caution and enlightenment on truth, because our need to believe that we have everything figured out is a falsehood. Especially if we only allow for our own perspective.

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