![]() Wisdom and Nature tells us that some things are binary/opposites... and some things are on a continuum. For instance Gender is binary (sorry folks, except for very very minor aberrations, there are only 2 genders - female and male.) And things like heat and cold have multiple distinctions.... from boiling to warm to neutral to cool to freezing. So Truth or Falsity is Binary - it is either True or False. It cannot be 'sort of ' True. Just as I can't be 'sort of' pregnant. I'm either pregnant or not. There is no such thing as 'my truth' compared to 'your truth'. Because that would put truth on a continuum. This popular concept of Relativism, has no basis in reality, and renders the concept of 'Truth' (with a capital 'T') as meaningless. But Opinion or Belief is a Continuum. So there can be my/your experience or my/your opinion - which can change and adapt and emerge. And yes, an experience or feeling or opinion can be true for you, but not necessarily for anyone else. For instance, if I tell you that I have seen fairies in the bottom of my garden, then that is my 'truth', and unless you have 100% proof discounting my experience (which is probably impossible), then you can't say I am lying. But equally it's not useful for me to insist that you believe in fairies, if you haven't experienced them. Hence they are my truth, but not yours. Even people who beleive in fairies have different degrees of belief... ie the belief is on a continuum. (By the way, I have seen fairies... that's another story ;-) Wisdom involves not mixing up these distinctions. Man Box Masculinity
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