Dear Wisdom:

I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and you do not sound like a lunatic to me, not at all! You seem to me like an intelligent young person looking for answers, curious about life and what your path in life may be! You look here and there for what is true.

Different people believe different things about what is true, often contradictory things, so in trying to learn what is objectively true, I go by what I see, by what I observe, not by what I imagine or by what other people imagine and assume.

I will give you an example: I see that every single living thing dies, every person dies, no human lives forever. Some people believe there is heaven and hell after death. I can’t see heaven and hell and I see no evidence of those. From personal observation I see that all people die, so I know it is objectively true that all people die. I do not know if there is heaven and hell after death, so this may not be objectively true, it may only feel real to some people (subjectively true).

Another example: I observed that innocent children are killed and die even though they are innocent. I observed that through personal experience, statistics, history accounts. Some people believe that if they will be “good”, god will protect them and they will not die, at least not until they are old. This is what they believe. But I observed that young children who are good, die young. So I know that the objective truth is that there is no god who protecting those the innocent and good, at least no god protecting many, many innocent and good children.

These are the kinds of observations I am talking about, learning from what you see is happening and seeing the difference between what is objectively true and what may be only subjectively true to some people.

anita