Truth is an abstract noun. This means it cannot be perceived by any of our five physical senses. For most people this tends to mean that truth cannot be regarded as absolute. Truth is relative to one’s point of view or situation in life. What is true for a politician may not be what is true for an apolitical citizen. This website is intended to challenge the status quo from which faulty views of truth arise.

Although an abstract noun, truth is real, and I would argue that it is objectively real. That is to say, truth is something outside of our perceptions and therefore is not something we can actually control or manipulate. We can lie, but our lie does nothing to alter the truth. We can live or speak as if truth were self-defined, but in reality truth is unaffected by how people regard it.

Let us think about reality for a moment. Although reality is also an abstract noun there is a concreteness about reality that cannot be dismissed. We can speak of the reality of the moon that orbits our planet. We cannot deny the reality of the moon because we can perceive it with one of our physical senses: We can see it with our eyes. To deny that the moon is real is a symptom of insanity. All sane people are in perfect agreement that the moon is real. Every properly functioning eye can see the moon. It is real.

Truth and reality are essentially the same thing. A person is speaking the truth who accurately describes reality. Love and hate are realities. Peace and war are realities. What “happens” in the course of life is real. Our actions in life are real.

Our perceptions are real, but our perceptions can become so distorted and confused that we fall into  a form of mental illness. Peace of mind–a real and true peace of mind–requires us to correctly perceive what is real.

Of course, our experiences in life may be traumatic and frightening. And these sorts of experiences can effectively shatter our lives. The pain of a broken heart is real even though it is very different from the pain of a broken leg. It is easy to heal from a broken leg. It is very difficult to heal from a shattered life.

I will make the case that objective truth requires our real acceptance if we are ever to possess a real peace of mind. Human beings simply cannot function properly when they put the crosshairs on truth and then pull the trigger to kill it.