Simply…T-R-U-T-H

A certain thread on the forum has me concerned, infact very concerned. I was accused of ‘protecting and defending a friend’ who many have assumed is a danger to females on this website by displaying “stalker tendencies”. For the record, i have no idea who this person is.

As the thread progressed daily it became quite obvious to me that People want the truth.

We hold trials to find out if an accused person is guilty or innocent. News organisations employ fact checkers to make sure that errors do not creep into their reporting. School boards want to be sure that student textbooks are accurate and trustworthy in presenting the truth.

People want the truth. Life is full of important decisions, and we don’t want to rely on faulty or misleading information lest we make a mistake of monumental proportions. But sometimes we want something so badly that we lose sight of the truth.

I’m not sure if any of you, the readers of my blog, are familiar with a man named Joseph ‘Joe’ McCarthy. If not, here’s a quick breakdown. In the 1950s, he was on a crusade for truth—but he was so convinced that America was filled with communist sympathizers that his quest for truth turned into a witch-hunt instead.

People want the truth, but we don’t always embrace it when it comes along. Some truths are uncomfortable or challenge the way we look at the world around us. When we don’t like the truth, we are tempted to ignore it or reinterpret it in a different light. Because people behave this way, some now believe that truth is an illusion, that what is true for you isn’t necessarily true for me. Of course if truth doesn’t really exist, then trials and congressional hearings and fact checkers are pointless. If there is nothing you can rely upon, then science is an illusion because it is supposed to be founded on scientific truths.

People want the truth. And truth does exist, even though we sometimes disregard it or twist it to suit our fancy. People may lie while under oath, but hiding the truth does not change the truth. People may get their facts wrong or jump to incorrect conclusions, but in spite of that the truth remains waiting to be discovered.

Where can you find the truth, undistorted by human failings?