Theos-Talk Archives (October 1999 Message tt00043)

Well I find it hard to define self-evident truths as well.
When I get up of a morning, the only self-evident truth to me is that I have
to
put up with another day.

The way this world is going, truth of any kind is becoming harder and harder
to discern.

----- Original Message -----
From: clint mccray <imuisurme@yahoo.com>
To: <theos-talk@theosophy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: Theos-World self-evident truths


> Give me a break, how the hell are we supposed to know
> what kind of thoughts we would have growing up alone
> on an island, unless we actually had.  Any answer
> would be pure conjecture.
>
> We are direct results of our social and physical
> environment (including genetics), self evident truth
> is as subjective as our native tongue.
>
> When I get down to it, it's hard to believe that any
> of this is really happening.
>
> --- WLR7D@aol.com wrote:
> > I would like to discuss with interested parties
> > self-evident truths.  If you
> > were alone on an isolated island, what could  you
> > come up with in terms of
> > your origin, purpose and destiny.  What I'm looking
> > for is to assemble
> > self-evident truths that could be apparent to any
> > thinking person and not
> > parroted constructs from"holy books" or
> > sages...unless these are revealing
> > such self-evident truths.
> > My feeling is that this is the starting point for
> > any grounded cosmogony or
> > life philosophy.  Let me know if you are interested.
> >  I can send you the
> > ideas I have thus far assembled.
> > Thanks, Randy
> >
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