YesuWangu wrote:@Tycho, how can truth be absolute and at the same time relative?
If it is relative, it is not truth but a modification of truth. I am not referring to modifications of truth, but to truth.
Ideally, we modify our identity to conform to the truth, we do not modify the truth to conform to our identity. Thats what you are doing. If the truth says humans will die, then humans will die. There is no other way about it because it is absolute.
Without further ado, what is truth? Pontius also asked this question though he did not wait for an answer.
Today in the morning I found time to take a look at 'my life'. It was a very brief affair. But then it seemed like eternity.
My meditation was specific; it was about my regressions. And I could hear a voice saying, 'The problem is you have always taken yourself as the center'.
And indeed, I could see that all 'my life' has been centered on 'me'.
'Then I should have no center!' I said.
It was brief experience, but I am still looking at it. And now I have just realized that since I am a chooser I must have a center.
'Christ is the center!' I heard Bonhoeffer say.
The Man God is the center! For where is Christ? In my 'heart'? In my mind? And who am I? As long as there's a 'me' and a 'Christ' there are two centers. But can we have two or multiple centers?
There must only be identity.
What is truth? It is a spoken word. And can there be perfect communication? 'Only when there's a perfect conversation'. I'd say.
For conversation implies multiplicity. It also implies shaping perception through collective activity. That is, restructuring relativity. For example, God sending the children of Israel to captivity due to their rebellion, and at the same time raising a prophet among them.
The prophet is stimulating a conversation between the individual sinner and his maker.
Picture the blind man that was healed by Jesus. What can you see? People like trees. And then, What can you see? I can see! I can see!
Would you say, 'how can people look like trees? Are you sure you have gained your sight ama zako zime touch!'