Redeemer

An interesting question you pose here.

What is my truth? My truth is all that I have experienced, am experiencing and will experience, and not what other people have experienced. For I don’t know what it is like to be somebody else.

For other people, their ‘my truth,’ or their truth is all that they have experienced, are experiencing and will experience, and not what everybody else or myself have experienced.

My truth is what I know to be true about my life. My truth is what I think I know to be true about somebody else.

My truth is how I perceive the outer world and other people, and how I react to those things. But my perception could be false. My previous experiences and my preconceptions inform how I think and feel about situations, places and people. For example, I might meet a person I find to be really obnoxious and antagonistic, and how I react to this informs me of how I might react to other people who share similar personality traits. I might meet another person sometime after, but my experience has informed me to be defensive around this person and to avoid interacting with them for fear of not wanting to be antagonized. I could be wrong; that person could be the nicest person in the world and just happens to share similar traits with the previous person, or there might be some kind of external reason as to why that person might be acting in what I perceive to be an obnoxious and antagonizing way (they could have just stubbed their toe or something). My preconceptions could be obscuring me from seeing things as they really are, and clouding my judgment. Of course I could be right, that person could just be obnoxious and antagonistic in general.

So if my perceptions and judgments could be incorrect, is it really truth? Truth should be absolute. Truth should be correct. Truth is not incorrect. There should only be one truth, one objective reality. Truth is not false. Truth should not contradict.

That’s not to say how we have reacted to certain people, events or situations is false and invalid. We had some kind of emotional and physical response to certain things. Our brain has established neural links with how we should react to external stimuli based on how we have previously reacted to those stimuli before.

Currently, what I think is my truth at this particular moment is that something bad is about to happen or something isn’t quite right, and it is going to disrupt a state of calm and equilibrium that I have managed to maintain for the past month or so. If I were to be completely objective about how I am feeling right now (which I am trying to), I would probably say I drunk too much coffee today after I went cold turkey and relapsed (again) and that as a result of drinking too much coffee and consuming too much caffeine, this has caused certain chemical reactions in my body to make me feel nervous, jittery and anxious. You would think I’d have learned by now to not drink obscene amounts of coffee after I have done so many times before and reacted the same way but oh no, not I!

Is it possible for a person to be completely objective about something?

Most of this is what I have taken from watching a film titled “What the bleep do we know?” – it’s a really interesting, thought provoking film about neural connections, psychology, quantum physics, philosophy, spirituality and that kind of stuff. Some of it is pretty “far out” and I’m not really that much into being “far out” these days but it’s still a fascinating watch for me.

Thanks for posting

Joe