Thursday, September 24, 2009

Six blind men

I asked myself several times if is it there one/objective truth or rather several/subjective truths...?

Many times i had the feeling that each person's "truth" is true and valid. Somehow.
But, on the other hand, something was fishy in Denmark. However, I couldn't just delcare "oh, boy, you are so wrong!".

I agree, there might be different perspectives on a fact, but on its very essence that fact is only one.

The story below might help understand what i am trying to say here :)

Six blind men encounter an elephant – although how they knew that it was an elephant the story does not recount. The first touches its trunk and says that an elephant is like a palm tree, another touches its side and says that an elephant is like a rough wall. Another feels its tail and says that an elephant is like a piece of rope. Each comes into contact with a different part of the elephant and is convinced that their own explanation is correct and that the others are wrong.

None of them realises that they are all experiencing just one part of the same elephant and that none of their explanations are complete.

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