Is there an absolute truth and if so, what is the basis of that truth?
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Yes, There is an Absolute Truth & Basis of that Truth and you will find it in the Bible..(John 14:6)...If you agree, fine and if you don't agree, fine...Do your research and choose what you feel is right!
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What does it mean to be "true"? The quantum theory (I suppose that's what you're asking about) can explain a lot of physical experiments, so, up to a certain extent, it has been proven true. It is also the truest physical theory for small scales up to today.\nScience isn't about finding absolute truths, it's about providing a description of reality that suits your needs. Take newton's gravity laws for example: while proven false in absolute by einstein's relativity, they are still really useful and tought in many places.\nOf course the goal is to one day provide a theory (a description of reality, not "a guess") that explains everything, but for now that's still a dream.
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There are none. Simply the truth.
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it's not based on truth
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Really, is that the truth?
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there isn't a particle of truth in what you just said
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Never accept you have the answer until you have experienced the totallity of life. What you propose as the truth or meaning today could prove a falsehood tommorow. remain openminded until your last breath then decide what it was all about.
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the plain truth is variable\nmy truth not necessary to be your truth
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In the past, there was a Ch'an master who had three disciples. One day, two of them got into a heated argument. One of them went to the Master, stated his case and asked if he was right or not. The Master replied: "Yes, you are right." The monk then went back outside and told the other two monks. The other monk who had participated in the argument didn't believe him and went to see the Master himself. After stating his argument, the Master told him that he was correct. Upon hearing this the third monk was confused, thinking it's impossible that both monks are right. Thereupon, he also went to see the Master and asked: "Isn't one right and the other wrong." The Master replied: "Yes, you are right." The three monks then went to see the master to ask how it was possible for all three of them to be right. Had he made a mistake? No, all of them had been right.\nThis story illustrates that it is meaningless to get into any kind of argument. In this world, there is no absolute truth. From the Buddhist point of view everything in the world is impermanent and conditioned and therefore can only be considered from a comparative or relative point of view. When we judge one thing to be better than another we always do so from a relative or comparative standpoint. The Enlightened mind, which sees things as they really are, does not attach to any particular thing as being the absolute truth nor does it reject any particular thing as not being the absolute truth.
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That would depend on your definition of truth.\n\nFrom a mathematical point of view, logic can help you derive the truth by reasoning your way into verifiable conclusions.\n\nFrom a religious point of view, logic will not help you in any definitive way since truth in that sense comes from faith, and faith cannot be reasoned. It requires a leap of faith to arrive at the truth.
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Logic is not used to ASCERTAIN truth, it is used to reason truth and prove it's fallability.\n\nThe aspect used to ASCERTAIN truth is the question.
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I believe that no god could be true if he/she were swayed to and fro by the many winds of the doctrine of man.  The only God I'll follow is the one who is the same today, eternal past, and eternal future.  We are right to look to God for guidance in the art of morality.  As wrong as man is apt to be, God is the only one I'd consider even asking.
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Check out Godel's theorem.  The way I read it it states that given any language you can write sentences that are true, false, or neither true nor false (i.e. "This sentence is false.").  I see God as the language which is Truth.  If you have the concept of truth, falsehood is derivitive from truth.  So if you have a true omnipotent God who is all good, you can have the false concept of his opposite, suffering, or any other sort of bad or evil thing you can imagine.  Just because you can say it in the language of God, doesn't make it true.  The material world is an example of sentences which you can construct in the language of God which are not true, i.e. illusion or relative.  As our thought becomes more spiritual or absolute, we find that the so-called evil in the world falls away from our experience, not that we ignore it, but our thought changes the world within the sphere of our consiousness.  The world is our collective shared consiousness, lots of people think that it is all that is real and filled with both good and evil, so it sure seems like God must have created all this suffering, while in fact he is of purer eyes than to behold anything but pure 100% good everywhere.  Just because you can have the concept of suffering or anything else bad, doesn't make it necessarily real.  We are God's image and likeness, we have free will, therefore, we can believe that which is not true to be true, i.e. believe that illusion is reality.  Without free will, the universe would not be infinite.
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God is all the truth in Univerese.\nI think  that truth is time lived in God .
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Philosophers have wrangled with this question for centuries and I comes down to this:  You simply cannot prove that you exist.  You can't even prove that the outside world exists.  After all, 'you' could just be a brain in a vat somewhere being stimulated by electrodes that make you 'see', 'feel', and 'touch'.  What philosophers have come up with is the concept of a "Properly Basic Belief".  It means that if there is no evidence whatsoever to the contrary, then you can probably safely assume that it's true.  However, that doesn't mean you can prove it.  And of course you have to be open to the possibility that evidence may turn up at some time.  So until there is evidence that I don't exist, I'll stick with the philosophers and say it's a "Properly Basic Belief" that I exist.  And of course, there's the old standby of "I think, therefore I am."
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If you are telling the truth, then the statement, "Everything I tell you is a lie," is a lie itself.  If you are lying, then the statement would actually be true...which brings us back to you telling the truth.  It's all just one big circle that never, ever ends!
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Absolute. It is a chance to grow and learn from it. \nI believe that it is one of the reason why we are here,\nand live our <journey>, meet the right people at the right \ntime,be at the place at the right time ,to accomplish\nwhat we have to.(Even if we don't like it ,sometimes.)\nThat's the miracle of life.