On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:23, Jason Van Patten <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/26/2011 10:15 AM, Alan Young wrote: >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:03, Jason Van Patten<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Truth does not take sides >> Not only does take sides, it plays favorites. And it's fickle. > I think my disagreement there is that i consider truth to be irrelevant > to side. I look at it as both sides can be right and both sides can be > wrong, and their affiliation to the truth is hap stance in most cases > and coincidental irony in the rest.
My assertion is that whatever we *collectively* decide is the truth becomes the truth. The "discoveries" we have made over the millennia have not been discoveries but alterations of the universe around us as theories and ideas have become popularly accepted. -- Alan Young /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
