Truth

I have a philosophy in life. This philosophy I sum up as "One Truth". I consider myself rather scientifically minded. To that end, I realize there's not much, if anything, I can ever really know. That doesn't leave any room in life for faith.

Still, sometimes we just kinda have to go with our gut instincts and build our philosophies on life on top of that. For example, I tend to feel like there's value in prayer and there's something going on with karma.

So, back to the "one truth" philosophy. This is, perhaps, one of the most core and fundamental philosophies that defines who I have developed into as a person. I tend to believe that, beyond our own perspectives of reality, there exists a true reality that we are attempting to perceive.

This is seemingly in contradiction to what a lot of modern thinkers believe. As an example, there is this notion that reality doesn't exist beyond ourselves and/or that our own mental projections are creating and forming the reality around us. However, given the broad scope of the idea that there is "one truth", I could easily say that if we are forming reality around us, then the one truth is exactly that "we are forming reality around us"... Understand how this works? Whatever the one truth is, it is, indeed, a truth.

This foundation is great because it gives hope to the idea of always trying to seek out the truth that exists beyond our altered perceptions of reality. I love that science works to do exactly this.

The human mind is extremely easy to trick. Instead of helping each other understand our true reality, we humans often tend to enjoy confusing each other either as a form of entertainment or for greedier reasons such as personal gain.

Having adopted this foundation in my youth, I've struggled and fought with myself. I've learned that I will lie to myself without hesitation. I will tend to believe those things that make me "feel" the best. I've recognized these patterns in myself and have worked hard to break them.

Unfortunately, I see these same patterns all around me! Sometimes I see people I care about and I get a strong feeling that they're running from what they know to be true. In fact, I see this kind of thing almost non stop.

I also know that I must be living in my own false reality... because my brain isn't capable of grasping it all... or understanding it all.. and I'm just as human as everyone else.

Still... this "one truth" thing... it's taken me to odd places. There is nothing I cherish more about another person than hearing absolute truths - even when I find them emotionally negative. There is nothing that hurts me more, emotionally, than knowing someone is telling me a lie or even hiding truth. It's sad when someone does it out of instinct... It's insulting when they do it consciously.

I do tend to believe that if we could be transparent to each other, something amazing and wonderful would emerge... something beyond what we're able to imagine. However, I think it would only take a single lie to destroy it.

I wonder when the human brain developed to a point where it learned to lie?