“Your Truth” Isn’t Truth — It’s Just a Dressed-Up Opinion
If Everyone Has Their Personal Truth, Then No One Has Any Truth
There’s a phrase people love to use these days.
“Live your truth.”
Sounds so inclusive and empowering, right?
Yeah, not so much. Here’s the reality…
In the history of the human race, there’s never been a more asinine aphorism than “Live your Truth.”
This whole notion of “my truth,” “your truth,” and so forth is why we live, in many respects, in the Age of Lunacy and Insanity!
Think I’m being harsh?
Then, try it with your bank!
You: I’d like to withdraw a million dollars, please.
Bank: I’m sorry, ma’am, but you only have $27.04.
You: Pfffft. That’s your truth. My truth is I have a million bucks in there. Give it to me!
The reality is, there’s no such thing as one’s “personal truth.” Either truth is truth or it’s not truth. Your approval of it or feelings toward it have no bearing on its truthfulness. None!
People who say “your truth” usually mean something like:
- “This is how I feel.”
- “This is what I’ve experienced.”
- “This is the meaning I’ve assigned to those experiences.”
Fair enough. Personal experiences matter. Emotions matter. But truth — real truth — isn’t based on how we feel about it.
The moment we turn truth into something private and personalized, we lose the ability to talk about what’s real.
And that, Dear Reader, is where we are.
I think of those giant map signs in tourist areas or shopping malls with the arrow “You are Here.” Imagine a map showing us the inane, confusing, and contentious age in which we live. The only way out of Crazy Maze is to reject this “personal truth” nonsense.
Say it with me…
There Is No Private Truth
Gravity doesn’t change because it makes you uncomfortable. History doesn’t rewrite itself to flatter your sense of identity. And morality doesn’t become whatever you want it to be on a Friday afternoon.
Truth, by definition, is that which aligns with reality.
Don’t like reality? Well, too #*$^ bad!
Don’t get me wrong.
I understand that sometimes we’re unaware of the truth or at least the whole truth. Sometimes, it takes work — a lot of work — to get at the truth. Sometimes, there’s confusion and disagreement.
What’s more, the human brain only has so much capacity, and the knowledge we don’t have will always exceed the knowledge we do.
Yes, the postmodernists are right when they say that truth is not always completely knowable. But they are wrong — dead wrong! — when they suggest this means that truth doesn’t exist or that it’s relative to each person, tribe, or group.
Truth is not relative. It is objective. It’s our awareness of the truth that can be relative. That’s not playing with words. That’s an extremely important distinction, and we must understand it.
I will further grant that we are not always trapped in our reality. We can change some things about ourselves and we can sometimes influence people and circumstances around us, but…
We will get nowhere constructive if we ignore, deny, or try to redefine truth itself. Truth doesn’t become relative simply because we don’t like it.
Whether we’re talking about politics, sex, relationships, religion, money, career, success, health…whatever….
Face the truth and deal with it!
That’s what sane, mature, and responsible people do.
What kind of person do you want to be?
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