So true! Facts are interpretive, and not necessarily the truth. Truth is realized in ones own self, and therefore relative to belief, and not always based on fact. IMHO; Absolute "Truth" does exist, however it is unattainable. You believe what you want to believe, as they say. Truth is not a question of right or wrong, only of what is closer to the Absolute Truth.
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>>> Tom Hula <[log in to unmask]> 07/26/02 09:55AM >>>
I believe you meant science and facts, not truth. Truth is more important
than facts.
As Madeleine L'Engle put it:
"Once when I suggested to a student that he go to the encyclopedia when
he wanted to look up a fact, he asked me, 'But can't I find truth in stories
too?' My reply: 'Who said anything about truth? I told you to look up facts
in the encyclopedia. When you're looking for truth, then look in art, in
poetry, in story, in painting and music.' Now this student was doing no
more than making the mistake of many his elders, confusing provable
fact with truth, and then fearing truth enough to try to discount it. If I
want to search for the truth of the human heart, I'm more apt to go to
Dostoyevsky's 'Brothers Karamazov' then a book on anatomy."
Tom Hula
Victor S. Barnes Company
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