RE: What is "My Truth"?
December 19, 2021 at 10:04 pm
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2021 at 10:05 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(December 15, 2021 at 12:15 pm)brewer Wrote: I hear some many different people using this claim, most recently a Oprah commercial. Is My Truth actually a valid claim?
What if your/their truth conflicts with mine? Or facts? Or science?
Do people use My Truth to give lend some extra credence to their opinions, beliefs, experiences or views of reality? If they are how does it come close to truth, especially in light of objective vs subjective truth. truth objective.
Maybe My Truth is the other side of the Fake News coin.
(about time I got off my ass and made a thread)
Glad you made a thread, brew. Interesting question.
I personally don't think people can arbitrarily decide the truth according to their own experience. I mean, that's obviously biased and obviously prejudiced.
But at the same time, some people use the term "my truth" in an acceptable manner. Say someone who has been the victim of human trafficking and forced prostitution for 15 years of her life. (I'm thinking of a latina activist to whom this happened, but I can't remember her name.) Anyway, if this woman says "my truth" we would do well to listen. Her unique perspective can tell us something about the world with which we aren't familiar. Maybe how brutal and apathetic it can be.
But if someone is using "my truth" as a way of circumventing the truth, as is common with internet loudmouths in debates, then we needn't take them seriously. Not unless they can demonstrate why we should.
So I guess my answer is: "my truth" has its time and place.
