Truth is Relative (Because it is Absolute)

E Unum Pluribus.

Imagine you are staring at a coin, like right at Abe Lincoln's dome piece. What shape is the coin? A circle, right?

Now turn the coin 90 degrees on its axis (so the dome piece is facing a wall parallel to the direction you are facing). What shape is the coin? A line, right?

Yet it is the same coin.

I'm learning to not get all bent out of shape when people see truth in a different way than I do. If I start to presume I am exclusively right (and I see the coin as a circle), then I'm missing out on learning from someone the beauty of seeing a coin as a straight line.

We can't experience everything, so the best way to learn and grow and learn more (about) truth is to devise means to clearly communicate with those we trust. I need to stop trying to convince people of what my reality says is real. It's just as distorted and steeped in experience as anyone else's.

Rather, my voice needs to be one in a collaborative effort to figure out this joyously amazing f'ed up redeemed sinful beautiful life. There is absolute truth, but my eyes can only see so much of it, and my mouth can only express even less of it. If I can give and receive love (which is damn hard, by the way), live humbly, and resist my fears (mainly of not being right), there might be hope that I can build a community that reflects a more holistic view of truth than what I know. Thus, this larger truth becomes bigger an more relative to a more diverse audience since it is perceived an reflected in more ways than I could ever reckon.

We are a body. We are a band. I can't drum and play guitar at the same time. Put us together and the music might be good.

The pundits of "absolute truth" should realize that in their attempts to glorify truth, they limit its scope and impact by assuming that one person can know it fully; or, they assume that someone who might not see it the same way is wrong. Truth know no lines or boundaries except those which it draws for itself, and we have no right to say that truth is a circle and dismiss those who see the same truth as a straight line. It is not ours to judge. It is not ours to judge.

There is absolute truth. We are not it. Therefore we can't know it fully. This, thereby, demands humility on our quest to learn more of it and bring others to see it. Unum > Pluribus.

Feel free to send me your thoughts!

-Brody