| Is Truth Reality Or Perception? | | | | extrapolate truth from theories of the unknown. |
| Perception can very quickly become reality. If that | | | | When engaging concepts and theories one must |
| statement is true then a false statement can be | | | | retain a certain moralistic position. It is in the |
| presented as truth and perceived as reality. A | | | | morals of the individual that certainty and faith |
| person's perception of reality does not necessarily | | | | becomes personal. Everyone can have faith in |
| allocate truth. Truth is based in the minds | | | | crossing the bridge but only those who have faith |
| acceptance of its consistency. Truth is always | | | | in the unknown can experience a reality of inner |
| consistent but the perception of it is not. The | | | | meaning. |
| approach to one's truth is in his/her grounds for | | | | Consider your position. |
| deciphering realization. Each individual exist as a | | | | In order to explain this basis of thinking, one must |
| storehouse of information acquired from a | | | | first consider one's position. Obviously, |
| multitude of experiences Perception then is an | | | | understanding plays a great part in perceiving the |
| influential balance between an individual's mentality | | | | basics for comprehending the experiences in life. If |
| and reality. | | | | life is only a perception then what is that not |
| "People only see what they are prepared to see." | | | | perceived? I cannot form a conclusion of that |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | | | | which I don't know or experience. An event |
| What we think is true becomes reality in our | | | | taking place in your presence is no more |
| experience. | | | | significant than that being experienced around the |
| A few weeks ago gas prices soured to five | | | | world, because that which is not experienced is |
| dollars a gallon. There was no bases for the rise in | | | | impossible to observe. |
| price but the public believed there was a shortage | | | | Perception of reality can be divided into three |
| and panic set in which triggered high demand and | | | | categories: possibility, actuality, and illusion. |
| increased prices. So, a false rumor can influence | | | | 1. Possibility is the probability of that which |
| perception and change reality. Then, what we | | | | can happen. We change possibility through our |
| believe denotes our reality, not truth. | | | | association with it. Our perception is our view as |
| What is truth without faith? | | | | we experience the event. Our senses, culture, |
| Truth is in itself not enough to form a perception. | | | | morals, and values; determine our psychological |
| One must have faith that truth is consistent and | | | | outlook. |
| therefore, reliable. Faith is a realization and knowing | | | | 2. Actuality is that which we experience in |
| of an existence either in the present or future. | | | | real time. It is our environment as well as our |
| We have faith that a bridge will not collapse so | | | | certainties and uncertainties that bear on our |
| we cross it without concern. We also can have | | | | perspective. |
| faith in future events because we know in our | | | | 3. Illusion is false information that influences |
| minds they will happen. Now faith is the substance | | | | our thinking process and has the ability to bend |
| of things hoped for, the evidence of things not | | | | reality. |
| seen. In any case, faith has a great part in the | | | | Though complex, that which is proven contains |
| forming of perception. | | | | the potential nature to become reality within the |
| Faith must be optimistic yet preserve the morals | | | | mind. In the end, one's mind is the decipherer of |
| of the individual. | | | | all that forms reality. |
| We are then a mixture of materialist who | | | | Perception of reality or acceptance of conditions. |
| perceive history as stepping stones and spiritualist | | | | Perception is than, a confrontation between our |
| who perceive history as a divine design. The | | | | mind and truth -- a balance between the two. As |
| concepts of one are as real to one as the other. | | | | such, it is a mixture of sensations, concepts and |
| Each are set in the perception that there is truth | | | | truths of external environment and internal |
| in faith. Neither uses logic and reason to | | | | influences. |