Truth is not tolerent.

Truth. Take a moment and define the word.

What did you come up with? Was it a hard fast description of reality that is objective and unbiased for everyone? Did you find yourself asking “hmmm, what is truth for me?” Did you find your mind wandering into some Matrix-like meta-physical daydream of perception and how you look at reality versus how others do?

Dictionary.com’s first two definitions are; 1. Actual state of a matter 2. Conformity with fact and reality. If you follow their link to the definition of “reality” you find; 1. state of being real or fact. When you link to the definition of “real” you get; 1. True. Despite this seemingly simple and logical circle of thought, if you click on the “related topics” link along the left side of the page from the definition of truth or reality, you will get a long thread of postings where claims are asserted that there is something other than objective reality and truth. It seems many think this conformity to fact and reality can be interpreted differently byway of one’s perception.

It is an unfortunate incremental degradation that has advanced in education that the term truth is no longer taught as an absolute. The phrase “what is true for one, may not be true for others.” is scary when you understand the implications. If that statement holds “true” then the statement itself has no foundation. If everyone held to a position that everyone else’s position could be accepted as truth and thus reality we would have no solidarity in life to cling to.

When two mutually exclusive ideas butt heads one of them has to be wrong. Truth is a reality immune to perception and interpretation and only is exactly as it is.