When a word moves into one language from another with almost no pronunciation or spelling changes it is called a transliteration. This happens often when a culture passes one word into another that previously had no word for a certain action or event. This certainly applies to this word: truth. αλεθεία is an ancient Greek word. It has been transliterated into English as alethia.
Truth is one of those divisive words that has absolute stature and evolutionary clothing. To say that something is true one would be assuming that it conforms with fact or reality, it is a verifiable or indisputable fact, or perhaps the actual state of a matter.
When the early cartographers began noticing the continental shape similarity of South America and Africa, they cursively deduced that at one time in the past geologic history of our planet that the two land masses were at one time hooked or joined together. Of course this was in the early 1600’s and apart from exotic theories of ‘earthquakes and floods’ what else could have possibly allowed such enormous land masses to wander about the planet? Continental Drift theory was proposed by Alfred Wegner in 1912 to solve this riddle. A loud roar of disdain was given to this theory. According to the leading scientists of his day, this theory was absolutely not true and could never be true. Period.
Today Continental Drift has become Plate Tectonics with many dimensions of proof. Today it is true, in the past, not true. Pangea existed a long time ago but only recently stood up for itself.
As you peruse these writings do what a humble person once advised me, “When you are eating a delicious home made cherry pie and you discover a pit amongst the scrumptious morsels, don’t throw the pie out!”
These pennings are not fact checked, attempted to be proved, conform to any thoughts or beliefs of any group or individual. They are simply my views that make some kind sense to me, as a result of my life experiences, contributions from individuals who have added their views to my journey, ideas and viewpoints that have grown over time, insights, studies, early morning wakefulness, myriads of trades and occupations working with the ‘down and out’ to the ‘up and out’.
The great part of this writing is the freedom to express. So join me on the query realizing that our journey is all we have, the arrival is just an illusion.
Sincerely
Virtual Saguaro
Truth is one of those divisive words that has absolute stature and evolutionary clothing. To say that something is true one would be assuming that it conforms with fact or reality, it is a verifiable or indisputable fact, or perhaps the actual state of a matter.
When the early cartographers began noticing the continental shape similarity of South America and Africa, they cursively deduced that at one time in the past geologic history of our planet that the two land masses were at one time hooked or joined together. Of course this was in the early 1600’s and apart from exotic theories of ‘earthquakes and floods’ what else could have possibly allowed such enormous land masses to wander about the planet? Continental Drift theory was proposed by Alfred Wegner in 1912 to solve this riddle. A loud roar of disdain was given to this theory. According to the leading scientists of his day, this theory was absolutely not true and could never be true. Period.
Today Continental Drift has become Plate Tectonics with many dimensions of proof. Today it is true, in the past, not true. Pangea existed a long time ago but only recently stood up for itself.
As you peruse these writings do what a humble person once advised me, “When you are eating a delicious home made cherry pie and you discover a pit amongst the scrumptious morsels, don’t throw the pie out!”
These pennings are not fact checked, attempted to be proved, conform to any thoughts or beliefs of any group or individual. They are simply my views that make some kind sense to me, as a result of my life experiences, contributions from individuals who have added their views to my journey, ideas and viewpoints that have grown over time, insights, studies, early morning wakefulness, myriads of trades and occupations working with the ‘down and out’ to the ‘up and out’.
The great part of this writing is the freedom to express. So join me on the query realizing that our journey is all we have, the arrival is just an illusion.
Sincerely
Virtual Saguaro