ENT.1 WHAT IS BUILT FOR TRUTH

The name Built for Truth stuck with me when it came to ideas of what I wanted to call this site where I practice articulating my thoughts on a larger scale. Writing about thoughts and interests that I have can be a little confusing, even for me, as there is no cohesive category to put my interests into. Am I only interested in faith? Science? Fitness? Psychology? Philosophy? Finances? Yes, not all of these alone, but in fact I find interest in all of them and more. Not individually but truly inter-connectedly, as I believe they all are, held together by similarities below the surface and ties to deeper foundations. All of these categories listed above are truly subcategories of truth or are subcategories of our attempts at finding the truth around us, whether in this world's social structure or within its natural being outside of ourselves. In a way, in all of these things, we are searching for truth. In this very way, though, we can not spend so much of our time and lives searching for something that we don't think exists! Therefore, in acknowledging our interests in these subcategories, we validate an innate belief that there is something to be found, there is truth.

In every aspect of human endeavor, we are innately searching for something: the answers to our questions, the discovery of something unique, the ingenuity to design something not yet thought possible. This is what drives the cutting edge of human endeavor. Research, study, practice, writing, art, all of these things that drive ingenuity in the modern age are fueled by the underlying desire for something found outside of the already known. It seems counter to this line of thinking, then, to say that we have this innate desire so subconscious to us, yet so impactful in all our actions, if a part of us was not built for it. Why is a part of our being designed to think, to wonder, to experiment, or to be curious? What purpose is there if there is nothing to be found by our efforts? No, I believe it is evident that we were built with this desire and curiosity with the innate understanding that there is something to be found. There is something that is outside of our understanding that if we look into it enough, a part of ourselves will be liberated from our past understanding and brought into the reality we were once blind to. We have this innate desire for what we know exists but is unknown to us. We were built for truth.

For me, this is what ties all of my interests together. Everything that fascinates me can be summed up in the category of a desire for the truth. Nothing stands alone in and of itself. Everything is connected in understanding and in truth. Of course, the truth I am talking about is both the subjective and objective truth of the reality that we live in. If you believe in objective truth or not the irony is that there is an answer to its existence, making your belief or unbelief in it irrelevant, and making the truth of objective truths' existence objective in and of itself. This makes for a remarkably hilarious and yet confusing conversation where everyone becomes lost as to what we truly mean by the words that we are saying. 

I do find it interesting how individuals, myself included, often fall into the predicament where we say things without consciously knowing the underlying truths that support the things that they are saying or arguing. Statements and arguments are built on propositions from which you need to draw your conclusion in those statements. Just making a statement without stating any propositions means one of two things. Either the statement automatically loses all validity as it has no foundation, presuming that it truly has no presupposed propositions. Or there are presupposed propositions, presuppositions, to the statement that are not exposed and often even subconscious, or unknown, to the individual making the statement. Breaking down the presuppositions beneath an argument is a good way of exposing the truth of the argument. Additionally, it is easy to make contradictions when you are not clear on the underlying presuppositions you are making in previous arguments and statements. All this to say. It is easy to say things without really truly knowing what it is that you mean by what you say. Ultimately, the meaning behind what is said is more important.

In writing this blog, I want to have a space and challenge myself to really explore my interests in all these areas in the hopes of exposing the truth around me that I am blind to. To have a space and a reason to think through and research ideas thoroughly in order to articulate the meaning behind them. Hopefully, along the way, some of my thoughts, opinions, and ideas change. I invite failure of thought, I welcome the possibility of being wrong, and I hope to be changed by others much smarter than I am, who have unlocked more of the truth around and within us that we have not yet seen.

You choose what you believe, but there are things that exist whether you believe in them or not.