Society and faith
This podcast invites listeners to reflect on their own beliefs and assumptions, urging a deeper examination of the building blocks of truth, reason, and faith that guide our lives.
In a world where information is abundant and perspectives are diverse, questions surrounding the nature of truth, reason, and faith remain as relevant as ever. A new exploration into these fundamental concepts challenges us to consider how truth is defined, tested, and understood in both individual and collective contexts.
This podcast dives into the relationship between objective truth and personal experience, suggesting that while truth may be universal, our interpretations are often shaped by personal encounters, biases, and cultural influences. Drawing on insights from philosophy, history, and human behavior, I draw the focus in the importance of transparency in methods of testing truth, advocating for approaches that are rigorous, reliable, and open to scrutiny.
At the heart of this series is the idea that while reason and logic are essential tools in our search for truth, faith also plays a crucial role. Faith should not be seen as blind or irrational but as a necessary complement to reason, providing the foundation for understanding what is yet to be fully revealed or understood.
Ultimately, the exploration suggests that truth, morality, and human understanding are interwoven in a complex tapestry shaped by both objective reality and subjective experience. It challenges us to navigate these concepts with humility, transparency, and a commitment to continual learning.
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Society and faith
The commonality of human experince
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This episode will go into what I want to call the commonality of our human experience. History has collected past encounters and today we have close access to the field of this phenomenon called life. The human experience is our common meeting or encounter with life and pursuit of meaning. The collection of our common stories and what we have met as humanity gives us the ability to check the validity to claims of truths that have been made, and we have the chance to test them. In our time we have “big data” of history as technology has “big data” to go through in our time, through the internet. Again we find that the Interconnectedness has woven us together and we have million pieces of the worlds puzzle that needs to be put back together. Therefore, we have a great opportunity to discover findings that we are searching for.
If we succumb to limiting the collected data that goes against our experienced understanding, we lose objectivity. We also lose the mark of our original intended purpose in pursuing meaning and truth. Therefore, the value of going through “big data” is immense, and that is where I believe the positive sides of postmodern theory and perspectives can help us. Where prejudice is allowed to belong, it can really injure the quality of objectivity, and by that also our worldview is harmed and limited. Where past wounds and hurt distort our acceptance of findings, we find help in aligning it with the common encounters recorded in history.
Many truth claims have risen in history and have gained the acceptance of the majority. The reasons are several, all from the power of influence to the limits of understanding of the times that have gone. The focus of cultures has changed over time, and values and what’s of importance have varied. Societies have put deep meaning to their claimed truths, and ideologies and religions have implemented beliefs on the people. Nevertheless, truth itself was never affected by the shifting’s and changes, but the perspectives were. The collection of common experiences through time has varied, but what they have encountered has always been life. How history was written was influenced by their values. The collection of human experience through history and all collected data expresses different worldviews, but the building blocks were always the same.
To uphold objective truth there is an element of perspectival meaning that we need to acknowledge. As we previously have discussed; to have objectivity, the encounters must therefore stand for themselves when we testify of what we encounter, what we see, hear, smell, feel, taste. When these encounters occur, it can then be compared to the encounter's others have had.
Now human experience is not all positivistic. It cannot all be measured and controlled, as it can be with natural science. To observe from outside alone doesn’t give sufficient answers. History is encounters of the world translated to experiences. You cannot analyze from outer position alone, because there is an instrument of understanding that lies within humanity. That is why comparable transparency is what gives weight to claims. As we write down and as we speak out what we encounter, it can then be easier measured and analyzed.
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