Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Pools 1 & 2 — Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge, McBee, South Carolina
There is truth, and there is assumed/presumed (And where does that line lie?) truth. And there is inquiry into the nature of truth, which is rarely explored, which is tragic, because truth is everyone's method of getting/serving what they want.
Trump and his supporters declare the truth at every opportunity. Russia and China fill the world with the truth around the clock. Preachers declare the truth without pausing to breathe.
Everyone extols truth to their own advantage. No one examines the truthfulness of the truth they call truth.
Truth is a perception not a fact. A tool in the hands of propaganda experts skilled at speaking the truth to their advantage, where the truth is there is nothing but self-serving opinion all the way down.
Every fact has to be interpreted/understood subjectively. That means the truth of the fact lies in the perception of the beholder.
When it comes to truth, it is all a matter of how we look at what we see-- or how we see what we look at.
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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