TRUTH

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The Rhino has been thinking about the concept of truth for a while. What really is the truth. The Rhino mentioned this to his old friend BJ and got this email back from him:

I've always struggled with the same issue. Is it the truth if you believe, is it true of you can prove something through mathematics, science or some empirical method, do philosophy and theosophy provide a higher level of truth - who/what do we trust? I think that I was born a skeptic, so examining the subject from a distance hasn't been difficult. In a way, I've always been envious of people who have blind trust in a perceived truth - life is certainly easier for they in many ways. In the less educated or developed parts of the world (including the US), sometimes trust in a perceived truth is all that people have to live their lives by - whether it's the local shaman or political leader.

My wife's family is very Catholic -her uncle (the youngest of 13) is a priest. For them, trust and truth came primarily from the Church and those who were affiliated with it - family, friends in their small town. I see in her mother, today at 83, that same trust in the ways of the church, but sorely tested with the scandals and general decline of the Catholic religious institution in the US. How deep does truth have to drill into trust to create distrust? For most Catholics in the US, the drill down seems to have struck a nerve. I'm still in Italy, in Rome, so I see the power of the Church - but most younger nuns seems to be from Korea or the Philippines - not white European women. ((stop with the nun fantasies)) We know that in the US, there are very few new priests taking their vows and almost no new nuns - the trust is gone for a whole generation who failed to 'have a calling'. Do intellectual freedom and extensive education dispel the old theosophical truths?

The Urantia Book says, "Truth often becomes confusing and even misleading whein it is dismembered, segregated, isolated and too much analyzed. " It aloso says Free and inexperienced intelligence cannot possibly at first be uniformly wise." Expierience reveals truth? What do you think?