I had been planning on setting up a blog a while ago, but I wasn’t too sure anyone really wanted to read my random ramblings. I guess we are about to find out.
There are so many things in this world that just don’t make any sense to me. I don’t know if this is because I’m so extraordinarily different than most people or this is because other people have come to accept what they are told without ever actually thinking about it, but in either case I live my life in seemingly perpetual bewilderment.
Why are we told time and again that there is no such thing as absolute truth? This makes no sense.
If there is no such thing as absolute truth, than how can there be a right and wrong? If there is no such thing as right and wrong than how can we have laws or education?
If personal truth is all that matters than what do we do if the student says “It is my personal truth that two plus two equals five”? How could we say they are wrong? If this is what we are left with, why do we keep throwing money at an educational system that is no more than anarchy?
Without absolute truth there can be no laws. Law requires the universal claim that there are things that ought not be done, but why not? If there are no absolutes than how do we make the claim that something is a crime?
It is these and a thousand other imponderables that leave me bewildered.
