"TRUTH" is not the [exclusive] possession of any one school of thought or practice. Do you agree or oppose this view?
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buttman
ANSWERS: 5
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I agree, notwithstanding certain exceptions, there are different perceptions of what is truthful and what is not.
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I do agree.
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In general, I agree.
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No, it's worse than that. It's not in the possession of ANY school of thought or practice. That's not how truth works. All the schools of thought are trying to ENCODE truth into ideas, which is a bit like painting a picture of a village from a particular angle. If you have a dozen artists placed at different spots around the village, they will all come up with a different painting -- and all of them will be "sort of right" and "sort of wrong" at the same time. Inherent in the process of trying to capture reality in concepts is this inevitable distortion that comes from the nature of conceptualization and the necessity of adopting a point of view for the whole process. Those two things ensure that the truth WILL get distorted, and any rendering into language will be "sort of right" and "sort of wrong" at the same time. So far, no problem -- the problem occurs when we fail to account for this distortion, and we start taking sides and fighting over WHICH distortion is "the right one". That's what turns an unavoidable artifact into divisions and conflict.
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Only in the case of subjective truth. There is an objective truth that is true whether you want to believ it or not. Your senses give a you at least a useful version if it. If you doubt this - then try for 1 day: blindfold yourself, block your hearing as much as possible, reduce all other senses as much as possible. The go about your ordinary business. An ordinary person living in most of the world wouldn't survive the day.
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