Can You Handle the Truth?

hi, my first time here and it could be the last, who knows, so if my contribution seams
interesting to a reply, please forward it to my blog post, thanks.

and now my contribution to your discution:
i've read recently a book of ken wilber and i think he as some interesting points there. He claims we have to look from three points of view to get near the truth. One of this points is the easiest, its the out side of what you are looking, for that you just have to take a good look.

The other two you have to go inside and you have to ask and you have to choose the right context so you can interpret the answers you get. This are two points because you have to do this for th e subject and for the group where he is. I am talking as if about a person, but you can do this for everything.

this post of mine is a reply to this link:
http://www.citizenlab.org/ modules.php?op=modload&name=NS-Polls&file=index& req=results&pollID=23
at the time i reply this was the comments:

Re: Can You Handle the Truth?
by Anonymous on Dec 03, 2005 - 05:31 PM

Truth...is it true that if the truth is not true, it is false? IS there just true and false in this world? There must be more mustn''t there? There must be a not-fully-true or not-fully-false position...so if i can''t handle the truth, then i must be able to handle the not-fully-truth or the not-fully-falsehood...

So i have a better question: What do u think of this statement: "ugliness is in the eye of the beholder"...

Re: Can You Handle the Truth? by Anonymous on Dec 12, 2005 - 02:16 PM

The truth is always true..thats what makes it the truth. It is constant, unchanging, unmoving, infinate and perfect. It is indeed true that we live in a world full of shades of grey rather then black or white, but is there not a constant inner struggle to achieve that ultimate truth? Most if not all religions think so. If you were to achieve it...could u handle it?

Re: Can You Handle the Truth? by Anonymous on Dec 14, 2005 - 11:11 PM

That was some neat first year philosophy stuff - I have the textbook from 1992 IF YOU''D LIKE TO RE-READ IT!!! There is no evidence to support the idea of an objective reality/truth so we just have to do the best we can at understanding the perspectives that are offered to us. At least this way we can have a momentary glimpse of the "truth" as another sees it and maybe, for an instant, participate in the truth they perceive. Maybe we will have the chance to share ours while understanding our perceived reality is equally nebulous. Truth exists in listening with acceptance to the experience of another and entering into that experience with compassion and respect.