The truth is…
that truth is hard to come by in this new age. We have a multitude of information at our fingertips, more exposure to other cultures and points of view and yet truth seems to be hidden. Not because people are actually trying to hide the truth, but rather there is so much noise out there that the truth gets buried…
You’ve also got the folks that are “plural truth” (hey dude, your truth and my truth can live together), or you get absolute truth thrust at you from different camps of people (including us Christians). Then you’ve got the folks suggestng that there’s an alternative truth (shout outs to D. Brown). This always seems more pronounced during an election year, and I don’t even know why I’m letting politicians get me lit up about this, but whenever the two sides are claiming truth on an issue, obviously they aren’t telling us the truth.
WAY Back (I’m talking early ’90s era), I was at a luncheon where the presenter said that the rate of information was doubling every 15 years. Guess what? It’s now doubling every three years – and that report is three years old! According to that report, we’re churning out as much noise, er, information the size of “all the words ever spoken by human beings” (which is 5 EXAbytes).
Q: Why am I being so technical and non-sensical? A: (1) I am geek, and (2) if you can’t filter through the information, you’re not setting yourself up for success in this new age.
CONCLUSION TO POST (shortcut for the ADHD afflicted) Most importantly, with the amount of information noise that is being generated, it will most likely by noted by the time my Grandkids are in high school that the Sacred Chalice of the Holy Grail is in fact, Mary Magadelene, wife of Jesus of Nazareth. Will our new society have the patience enough to wait for the truth to prove itself, or only go by what is G-dexed?
How ’bout you? Are you spending time in the truth?
[originally cooked up: 3/26/06]
Author: Brett Veenstra | Category: Disciple | Comments(2) June 2006
Just a little proof (as in a “math proof”) here about relative truth…CS Lewis style:<br/><br/>1. If you believe in relative truth, you believe that 2 opposite facts can both be true.<br/><br/>2. If you believe opposite facts can both be true, this is the same as not believing in truth at all…you believe in opinion.<br/><br/>3. If you say “I believe in relative truth”, you’re claiming that this belief, to you, is truth. <br/><br/>4. So far, we can reason, if you say you believe in relative truth, yet two mutually exclusive things cannot be true, your statement cannot be true.<br/><br/>5. Therefore, you’re full o’ crap. I should not listen to you, because you just discounted your own arguement.<br/><br/>Hence, this proves, either, it’s impossible for us to know any fact about anything in existance, or, absolute truth must be true.<br/><br/>——my 2 little cents…..
Ya know. This is interesting and reminds me of my engineering. When dealing with electrical signals you don’t want much noise. The more noise you get the better chance your system won’t work as intended and will have problems. If there is a lot of noise your system just won’t work right.<br/><br/>To combat that we need to put in filters to clean up the signal and reduce the noise.<br/><br/>This kind of reminds me of my faith walk and brings in the family askpect. Learning, teaching, and implementing filters on all of the noise out there is almost essential to living as we were intended to.