December
2006
Truth
How can you tell what is true? Is it something you hear from a reliable source? Is it something you witness? What is a reliable source? How do know that what you see or witness isn’t an illusion or somehow a trick, made to look like something it isn’t?
We live in a digital world, any photo, video, sound recording, or other media can be distorted, layered, cut and pasted, or changed until the material could be the exact opposite of what the original source had. Another thing is that all “history” is based on writing’s or recordings of past events. Now I know most people will say that for almost every date or fact of history that we know there is more that one record to back it up, but what if those people were trying to cover something up? What if all of the people behind the sources conspired and made it up? Anybody can think up/ write down anything they want, and if everybody recites what they thought of, does that make it true? This is one of those never-ending questions that I have always thought about. If you post a comment please give some feedback on that idea.
