"This is my truth"

DomnNC · 03-13-2011, 11:11 PM

A friend and I had this discussion tonight sitting outside a coffee shop. She said something that was really quite simple regarding "this is my truth". She used the color of the brick in the building. She said sitting here I can look at that brick and I will say it contains shades of red, black, brown and tan, that is what I can see, that is my truth as I see it. She said you may not see the tan as tan but a color called cream or some other shade because that is what you were taught, that would be your truth as you "see it". She said now Joe over there is color blind and doesn't see shades of red at all, so he would say that brick is probably gray, black, brown, and whatever color he may see other than red and that is his truth as he knows it. No matter how hard you and I try we will never get Joe to see that red color, ever, because medically he cannot see it. So who's truth is wrong in this example? I had to say no one's truth was wrong.

03-13-2011, 11:11 PM	#11
DomnNC Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Male Preferred Pronoun?: He/Him Relationship Status: Widow Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Permanently Banned 11/15/2011 Posts: 1,223 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,618 Thanked 2,582 Times in 837 Posts Rep Power: 0	A friend and I had this discussion tonight sitting outside a coffee shop. She said something that was really quite simple regarding "this is my truth". She used the color of the brick in the building. She said sitting here I can look at that brick and I will say it contains shades of red, black, brown and tan, that is what I can see, that is my truth as I see it. She said you may not see the tan as tan but a color called cream or some other shade because that is what you were taught, that would be your truth as you "see it". She said now Joe over there is color blind and doesn't see shades of red at all, so he would say that brick is probably gray, black, brown, and whatever color he may see other than red and that is his truth as he knows it. No matter how hard you and I try we will never get Joe to see that red color, ever, because medically he cannot see it. So who's truth is wrong in this example? I had to say no one's truth was wrong.