Truth

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Truth: Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be. “Purity from falsehood”

Fact: Can be proved.

Reality: The state of things as they exist as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.

What is truth?

It is sad how we have been drawn away so far from reality as a society that we even find it difficult to answer the simplest fundamental questions, like what is a woman? I recently attended a discussion where the topic of discussion was "What is a woman?" I couldn't help but think that 50 years ago, it would have been a waste of time to have a four-hour discussion on this topic because the answer would have been obvious to everyone back then. Or maybe it was because society 50 years ago was less enlightened and less woke than today? During the discussion, the presenter called a man and his wife to the front and asked a child to join them to provide an example and help answer the question., the child was asked if there was a difference between the two parents, and the child without prejudice could clearly distinguish between the two parents outlining certain features and traits in character. According to the child, a woman is a human being who is not a man, “The opposite of a man.” Now it is true that what matters most in any human communication is the intention or meaning behind the words, the words and syllables themselves are less functionally important in most day-to-day communication than the intended meaning, and so part of intelligence in being able to understand what the child meant even if the child didn’t have the eloquence of speech or words. It seems that even some of the most educated people in the world fail to understand the principle that a child was trying to convey - that there is a fundamental difference between men and women. Despite their ability to analyze the cells of the body and determine that males have an XY chromosome and females have an XX chromosome, some professors and scientists still struggle to comprehend this basic fact. Even in the social sciences, it has been determined that there are differences in the personalities of males and females for example temperaments, yes in personalities there are more similarities than differences but the differences are significant enough that a clear-cut distinction can be made. And so why the deviation from the Truth?

“A woman is an adult human female” I mean it's obvious Wena can't you get it 😏...

“Thought must be judged with reference to the truth, and not with reference to the honesty of him who thinks it. This plea of honesty in thinking is a justification of every error and crime, for we must, in the very nature of the case, take the thinker’s word for the honesty of his thought’’ (Gleason, 1893).

It doesn’t matter what your opinion is, the opinion must be subjected to fact and reality and if it doesn’t stand the test of fact then what needs to change isn’t reality but your thought process. But nowadays people are more inclined to change reality than they are their minds and, in the process, end up destroying society as a whole.

“We can reason intelligently only from what we know, and without demonstrated facts our fancied knowledge is worse than ignorance. With those who take no delight in true history, the proverb may apply: Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.” (Gleason 1893)

Paradoxically, the 20th century has the privilege of all this accumulated information and knowledge but it seems that the more knowledge we have the dumber we become, I mean have you taken time to watch any debate on gender pronouns? It's as if one is talking to a ranting child without any sense of reality “ I feel like a woman therefore I am a woman”, of all the dumb things that have ever been said in the past 100 years I think that statement tops the list.

“An error is no better for being common, nor the truth the worse for having lain neglected; and, if it ever is put to vote anywhere in the world, I doubt, as things are managed, whether truth would have a majority, at least while the authority of men, and not the examination [demonstration] of things, must be its measure.”— Essay on Human Understanding, Book 4, Chap. Ill, Sec. 6, by John. Locke, the great Christian philosopher.

God Help us.