I'm noticing a trend recently that might be amusing if it wasn't serious. As we learned from the postmodern worldview, there is no truth,
So, it's strange when someone who is free with the term "your truth" and who denies the existence of truth, gets bent out of shape when they decide that someone else is lying. There's not truth, but lying is bad doesn't seem to make sense.
This phenomenon is being supplanted by people who always demand proof of everything, they want research. Yet, they seem to believe in things that not only haven't been proven true, but that have actually been proven false. It's almost like there are certain subjects that must be protected from research, from looking at the data, from being falsified.
One of the hallmarks of the Scientific Method was that something be falsifiable, yet now it's out of bounds to even suggest that some things could be falsified, let alone actually trying to.
What a strange time we live in.
2 comments:
Craig... "it's strange when someone who is free with the term "your truth" and who denies the existence of truth, gets bent out of shape when they decide that someone else is lying."
I'd be willing to bet that you can't produce this straw man. I'd be willing to bet that if you THINK you can point to someone who has said this, that you've only misunderstood them.
You'd be more rational-sounding if you would talk specifics. Give details. WHO has said WHAT that makes you THINK that they don't believe in "the existence of truth..."?
Is it possible that they DO recognize that people can and do lie/make false claims because they DO believe in reality and they're not talking about some esoteric "truth," they're talking about facts and reality?
I doubt that you're understanding whoever it is you're basing such comments upon.
Ironically, that would be a sort of false claim you're making in a post ostensibly defending Truth.
Coming from someone who's been actively avoiding this exact request, this strikes me as hypocritical at best.
Let's start simply. You've already announced that you are NOT going to accept anyone or anything that would provide evidence, because you've already prejudged any possible person I could provide.
Two, are you completely unaware that the postmodern worldview denies the existence of truth?
Three, let's say that someone who repeatedly claimed that there is not one singular truth, but that there are a multitude of truths. Yet this same person criticized others for lying. In a world with millions of multiple truths, isn't one person's lie another person's truth.
Four, you do understand that it's occasionally appropriate to speak in generalized terms about general trends, don't you?
Five, it sounds like you're somehow trying to divorce truth from facts and reality, how does that work exactly. Aren't facts (pretty much by definition) true, and isn't truth (pretty much) the word we use to describe fidelity to reality?
Sixth, it's interesting that you didn't touch the notion that the people who seem most determined to demand evidence of everything, frequently believe things for which there's no evidence or which the evidence shows to be not true.
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