Truth

Is truth a singular thing or a component of many interrelated things which feed into and shape the "truth".

Is there a surety in truth which we crave or is truth,  one man's truth, another man's falsehood, a moving target which can never be known.

Are there different kinds of truth. Some, which based on faith, are as much  a creation of the mind to support that other mental conjuring trick, 'religious surety' which we then use to put off the emotional enormity of the 'finality of life' question. 

The truth of particle physics is itself a moving target as new discoveries reveal new truths. The truth of what is morally right or wrong varies with culture and environmental necessity. The truth of a political statement is defined by circumstance.

Andrew and I were walking down the beach in Swansea this morning yacking away about politics and the rights and wrongs of Andrea Leadsom's argument, that having children some how brought you into a collegiate of mothers who's experience of having children gave them greater insight into societies problems and our responsibility to plan well into the future so our children wouldn't suffer.

His view was that it didn't make any difference whether the "leader" was a mother or a father a man or a woman for that matter, these questions were dealt by "leadership" and the influence of child rearing or being childless played no part in the sensibilities of tackling that particular issue. Being a transvestite didn't bring particular skills to solving the problems of being a transvestite, those problems could just as easily be defined by a person of either gender so long as they were humane and intelligent.

Truth or the correct application of a healthy mind must arrive at the same destination since there is only one answer.

If you set up the truth as a goal and work backwards to find ways of obtaining that truth then you better be sure your truth is correct. I have propagated the idea that truth has no fixed position and that society, as it investigates itself and the world around changes its conception of what is the truth on a continuous basis.

If truth is as is love, seen through the eye of the beholder, then we arrive at many truths each dependent on the specific experience of the person holding that truth.

If your 'fortitude' (truth) is cemented in a belief system then you will move heaven and hell to ensure your truth fits the result you want. With the result that your truth will be narrowly defined and somewhat totalitarian. 

If your truth is less sure and changes as you bring more and more factors into the attempt to define it, then perhaps like adding too many ingredients into a receipt, you loose the concept of the dish.   Perhaps allowing too many influences into your definition of anything, can so muddy the water, that our perspective of everything is then lost. But sadly we are still no nearer "the truth" but our journey to find it  has been massively educational.