Week of 9.20-26

I would like to add two more questions to my list:

What is true?

How do we relate to what is true?

I think the first of these questions was so ingrained in everything I presupposed its existence however crucial it really is.

The second however is of much more value to the average human since again there exist a relationship between to entities. Regardless of what is really, absolutely true (and the real effects of these truths) we live in constructions inside the grand and unknown structure of truth. These constructions are all learned, observed and shared. It is like a neighborhood on the edge of town. The city limit runs like a gerrymandered district through the neighborhood oft times splitting buildings in half. Those constructions which fall inside the city limits are accurate understandings on the part of the human that are in fact characterized in real truth. Buildings that are split by the limit have elements of truth (these being more micro while the building itself is a macro element) but also continue into an area and understanding unsupported by truth, and like the later half of this building those outside the limits complete are unbased as well.

The importance of seeking answer to this second question shapes a person and communities life in profound ways. If a person accepts something is true that does not necessarily mean this truth rules their life. However a person could accept something that is not true and it will command the way they live. This question is most important because it comes after a person/community has already discovered what is true.

The problem is that the discovery of truth is not so simple. The first question is a decision everyone makes, and the results can be quite different. This is the instance where beliefs about anything come together and collide. This is the locus of dispute. This is where the neighborhood can become unsafe based on how people answer the question "Who are we?" because if you are no one to me then your life is of little value and potentially in danger. Why we are here is informed by what is true. Our experience is also informed by truth and particularly how we relate to it.

Side note: the connection of all of these question makes me feel that these are essential to the overall quest. I am not surprised that I overlooked two such basic and important features of our existence, and will continue to search for others. In thinking I came across a thought and tried to categorize it in the extant questions of the time and found that it spanned a few but elements were also untouched. In fashioning the two questions I wanted to harness not just the ideological aspect of what is truth but provide a separate and specific opportunity to question how that truth is understood and expressed.