Truth of the Truth
The professor in his philosophy class said
“There is a close relationship between the truth and the power. Whatever the power
says, it becomes the truth. A person who possesses the power bears the capacity
of changing untruth into the truth. The professor continues “Actually there is
neither truth nor untruth in the world. Truth is something that can be proved as
a truth with logics. Common people also accept them as the truth. Likewise, untruth
is something that can be proved as untruth with logics.
Most of the students couldn’t understand what
the professor said. One of the students seemed interested when he asked “You
mean there is no truth. How is this possible, professor?”
The professor replied immediately “Yes, there
is no truth.” The student asked again “The sun gives light. Is it not the
truth?”
The professor gave explanation of his answer.
He said “The truth that the sun gives light is absolute truth until the sun
gives light by burning itself. But when the sun stops burning and gets cold
then the truth that the sun gives light would be untruth. So the sun gives the
light is truth only until it burns but when it stops it would be untruth.”
After listening to the professor’s explanation
the student asked “You mean the truth has life time. Isn’t it?”
The professor said “Yes, truth has life. And
not only the truth has life but it is relative term also. The truth differs
from place to place, time to time, and person to person.”
With a confused face the student asked the professor
“Tell me how is it possible?”
The professor laughed and said “If someone
believes something as a truth in one place that may not be the truth in another
place. Truth is something that is perceived as a truth by the people. If
someone says to the people living in the desert region that the deadly floods can
kill thousands of surrounding people, nobody of that region will believe. They might not have ever seen the flood and
that is why they would not believe. In the same way, if someone says to the
people living near the river that the flood cannot take the life of people then
no one would believe that. The people who live near the bank of a great river
might have witnessed deadly floods that have killed thousands of people.”
The professor laughed again and said “people
do things that are done by the majority of people. What all the people believe
as the truth, is the truth.”
Although the professor had a lot of
explanations about the truth he stopped his speech because he could see the
hint of disinterest in the face of his students.
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