A friend wants to explore the meaning of “Truth”.
I understand you object to self referencing a term when attempting to describe or define the term. It is especially egregious if offered as “proof”.
Yet, as to understanding the meaning of a term, meaning is often understood by simply hearing the term used in proper context. Often examples are better than can be communicated from a dictionary definition. If fact, that’s how most of us learned most of the words we use every day. That’s also why we can often learn more depth of meaning, if we hear a term used in other correct but different ways than we usually hear it used.
What is True
I used to work on motorcycles and if we replaced the rim on a wheel, and tightened the spokes without any concern for whether we tightened the right ones or how tight we set them, the rim would wobble erratically. It would shift from left to right and right to left and sometimes up and down like the bicycle of a circus clown.
Before most people are happy with the performance of a newly installed rim, the wheel has to be “trued up“. If not, most would not be happy with the ride experience. When the wheel wobbles erratically, nothing is consistent except the consistency of variation from what is wanted.
Right and Wrong
But first, let’s talk right and wrong. I know, you probably think those terms are subjective. Well, Ok; In actuality everything, even in physical reality is subjective. But I digress …
If you want a wobbly ride, then the wheel is set just “Right“. But for most people, the wheel would be considered setup wrong. When something that affects your ride is set up wrong, the experience is undesirable. That is; we will usually find the vehicle will fail to provide us with an experience congruent with our discerned preference.
When your wheel is not true, your ride is not right, and you can never be sure if when you adjust your course with the steering bars, if the ride will take you where you want to go or not. Most of the time an untrue wheel will put you in the ditch with an undesirable ride experience.
Truth
(Hang in there now, I am about to tell you a more general meaning of True and truth as it applies to more than motorcycle wheels).
What did the word true mean in the illustration? Perhaps the definition of a true wheel will help.
A true wheel is one that spins at a consistent distance (radius) from it’s axle, AND in a plane that is at a perfect 90 degree angle to its center axle. When a wheel is true, it is congruent with it’s specification.
That’s all true means!
Truth is the specification. A statement is true when it is congruent with the specification the statement is attempting to describe.
In the context of reality, a statement is true when it is congruent with the previously identified specification of reality. A statement about reality is true if it conforms to all that is believed true of reality.
Without a specification, nothing is true. If we want to change the wheel specification and adjust the wheel so it is congruent, the wheel is still true.
If we create the specifications identifying reality by stating emotionally charged firm beliefs that are consistent with them, those belief statements establish what is truth. If we create our own reality and change some aspects of it, the statements describing those aspects are TRUTH!
If a circus clown needs a bicycle that hops up and down and wobbles back and forth and provides us that specification, we would only have a true wheel IF, the bike hops up and down and wobbles back and forth.
If the clown says the wheel is true and it hops and wobbles, he speaks a truth.
If you say your wheel is true and it goes straight and according to your specification, then you speak the truth.
That’s the truth
The above illustration is true, and the statement is truth according to my specification of reality. It is true even if it is not consistent according to your own individual clown specification.
My description of truth is consistent and congruent to all I know and believe of reality. Therefore, this definition of truth is true one. Subjective? Yes, but then everything in all that is, is!
Belief and Reality
So, what I really want you to understand is, if you make your own reality, then you set your own specification and what is true to it. If you set your own specification, you establish what is truth and what is true. You define what is right and wrong as well. Could I also say? If you identify the discerned preferences regarding value in your reality, you also define what is good and evil too. I think so, It may just be my humble opinion, but I think it agrees with Seth.
QED, even if NOT proven, that’s MY reality and I am sticking with it!
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Other Study:
“On the one hand, quite simply and in a way that you cannot presently understand, —-> evil does not exist. However, you are obviously confronted with what seem to be quite evil effects.”
SESSION 568
“Consciousness is not basically built upon those precepts of good and evil that so presently concern you. By inference, neither is a soul. This does not mean that in your system, and in some others, these problems do not exist and that good is not preferable to the evil. It simply means that the soul knows that —-> good and evil are but different manifestations of a far greater reality.”
SESSION 528
“Remember, even false beliefs will seem to be justified in terms of physical data, since your experience in the outside world is the materialization of those beliefs.”
SESSION 615