“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King
George Orwell declared that ‘during times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act’. I believe that ours is an age of such deceipt: political, financial and mass media to name a few. However, despite this many of us still hunger for truth. But what is truth? How do we know when we are witness to it? Indeed, truth as we conceive it may simply not exist. Therefore, all knowledge may only be partial; a glimpse of a total reality. So, is truth absolute, or simply the outcome of our experiences and perspectives?
Gallileo declared, ‘ all truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them’. A starting point for Socrates was that ‘the only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing’. Elsewhere he concludes that ‘the unexamined life was not worth living’. So, for these thinkers to search for truth, however elusive it may be is still worthwhile, for if found it promises to lead us to a freedom, a freedom that cuts through the ties that bind and exposes the lies that blind.
This blog is a search for truth and represents my thoughts on its multi-dimensional nature. I source knowledge… but seek insight. Thus, this search is an open-ended, continuous process and I welcome any challenges it may present to my existing beliefs. For, as Margaret Lee Runbeck warns, ‘learning is always rebellion… Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before’.
Orwell, himself a man of great insight warns also that ‘the essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection’. So, to you the reader I humbly submit, my reflections, thoughts and comments, mindful that my striving here, principally, is to become fully sentient. To this end, Socrates declared ‘to find yourself, think for yourself’. This is my attempt to do just that.
Herein many sources will be considered but the reflections and comments given will be my own, so for all errors I accept full responsibility. Ultimately, my aim is not to shape the reader’s ideas or form their conclusions, but to claim the freedoms to question, to speak my truth, and have it feature in a wider social dialogue.
Finally, I thank you for reading. However, should anything on here trigger a reaction then I hope you will share it, for as Henry David Thoreau advised, ‘it takes two to speak truth – one to speak and another to hear.’ So, if truth is to be spoken then please enter the conversation.
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King
George Orwell declared that ‘during times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act’. I believe that ours is an age of such deceipt: political, financial and mass media to name a few. However, despite this many of us still hunger for truth. But what is truth? How do we know when we are witness to it? Indeed, truth as we conceive it may simply not exist. Therefore, all knowledge may only be partial; a glimpse of a total reality. So, is truth absolute, or simply the outcome of our experiences and perspectives?
Gallileo declared, ‘ all truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them’. A starting point for Socrates was that ‘the only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing’. Elsewhere he concludes that ‘the unexamined life was not worth living’. So, for these thinkers to search for truth, however elusive it may be is still worthwhile, for if found it promises to lead us to a freedom, a freedom that cuts through the ties that bind and exposes the lies that blind.
This blog is a search for truth and represents my thoughts on its multi-dimensional nature. I source knowledge… but seek insight. Thus, this search is an open-ended, continuous process and I welcome any challenges it may present to my existing beliefs. For, as Margaret Lee Runbeck warns, ‘learning is always rebellion… Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before’.
Orwell, himself a man of great insight warns also that ‘the essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection’. So, to you the reader I humbly submit, my reflections, thoughts and comments, mindful that my striving here, principally, is to become fully sentient. To this end, Socrates declared ‘to find yourself, think for yourself’. This is my attempt to do just that.
Herein many sources will be considered but the reflections and comments given will be my own, so for all errors I accept full responsibility. Ultimately, my aim is not to shape the reader’s ideas or form their conclusions, but to claim the freedoms to question, to speak my truth, and have it feature in a wider social dialogue.
Finally, I thank you for reading. However, should anything on here trigger a reaction then I hope you will share it, for as Henry David Thoreau advised, ‘it takes two to speak truth – one to speak and another to hear.’ So, if truth is to be spoken then please enter the conversation.
Russell