Truth

What is truth? Is it something that we can grasp with our hands? Is truth a belief in something, an idea? Is it something that can be repeated over and over again by anybody? Would repeatability make one persons truth better than another's?

Humanity is bombarded by sound of all kinds from the time we're born until we take our last breath. Certain sounds formed in the human mouth and expelled by human breath made up words that when put together in a certain order has meaning for us.  It is the combination of the multitude of sounds in the form of words that becomes our truth.  Words are used to describe something that we can see with our eyes, touch, smell, hear and even see microscopically or telescopically.

One person's truth is no better or worst than anybody else's. In fact our truth is made up of years of knowledge and experience that is unique to ourselves. Coleridge says "The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material". Webster's Dictionary say truth is "The quality of being true". Webster also says true is "Conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate.

So often our truth is based on something we've read or heard from another person that makes sense to us at the time, but what we read or have heard are only the speculative idea or ideas of another. Ideas are formed in our minds and expressed in written form or verbally as facts. In order for a fact to be a fact, it must be scientifically repeatable through experimentation, otherwise it's only a theory. Webster says a theory is "A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation". Without experimental repeatable data to prove something is true, it cannot become a fact and must remain a theory.  An idea cannot become part of our truth without facts to base it on.

It is up to us as individuals as to what we will accept and believe that becomes our truth. We will even fight another person verbally or even physically just to prove our truth.  Does fighting really change anything?

We cannot force our truth on another person. They have to decide for themselves as to what they well accept or reject as truth.