Hi all, just to intersect here...
<< Truth is what you make of it, trust is just one aspect of the truth,
whatever
that may be...
It boils down to the same arguments raised on the Morality- thread, who
are we to decide what morality is and is it moral after all to decide what
morality is!? The same argument we can apply for the truth.
Truth is never Absolute, trust is....!!
All the best,
Kenneth
----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Knight <sdk24@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: MD Pirsigian Test
> > > To be absolutely certain of something, need I have experienced it
> myself, or
> > > do I just have to be absolutely certain that others speak the absolute
> > > truth?
> > The latter. I just talk to my daughter in Connecticut who said it was
> snowing there.
> > I'm absolutely certain it is snowing there though I'm not there to
> > experience it myself.
> >
> > You question reminds me of a saying penned by one of the early
> > participants to this site, Doug Renselle:
> > "The only thing certain about the Uncertainty Principle is its
> uncertainty."
> So it boils down to trust? As regards the question of the Holocaust, in
whom
> should I put this trust? In Daniel Jonah Goldhagen and Deborah Lipstadt,
or
> in David Irving? Given that there is a difference of opinion, can anybody
be
> said to be telling the absolute truth? And as I never experienced the
> absolute truth of it myself...
> Not denying the Holocaust, but wondering where and if the Absolute Truth
of
> it exists or existed. None of use know the whole story, so can the truth
> ever be absolute? I'm certain about lots of things, but not absolutely so.
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