Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for August 11, 2020

Truth does have liberal bias, unlike some people’s wishes.

Is there still scientific truth out there?

Is there no truth in art, then?

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“You are entitled to your opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts.”

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Believe what you will. Believe it with all of your heart. It doesn’t change the facts at all. approx. Carl Sagan

Hold up a coin with one side facing you and the other side facing someone else. Ask them what image they see. Does it agree with yours? You are both looking at the same coin, but what you see does not agree with what the other person sees. Which version is the truth?

That’s not what my college professor told me

To coin a phrase, “What is truth?” Is it synonymous with mere factual accuracy? Sometimes we use it as such, as on “True/False” tests, but we also use it to mean something else.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness; That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

Are Jefferson’s truths factually accurate? (Are they in fact self-evident?) If I point out instances where these rights have in fact been alienable, or question whether or not they were endowed by a Creator, am I speaking “untruth”?

Betty, and everyone else here it seems, is making a common mistake. Truth and facts are not the same thing.

Ask people from two different religions what truth is and they’ll argue forever. Each sees their religion as the “truth” and cannot be convinced otherwise.

Facts, on the other hand, cannot be argued.

That was why Kelly-Anne Conway was so roundly criticized for proposing “alternative” facts.

If you only believe what you believe because someone else told you to believe it, then you have no right to expect anyone else to respect your opinion

Amen.

Yeah. Truth is truth and is not affected by my opinions or perception of it. Or yours.

Preach!

Brilliant

“It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.” ― Stephen Colbert

“Que scais-je?” – Montaigne

Truth is absolute. Otherwise, it is just an opinion. Not your truth or my truth.

Got that right. Opinion, preference, belief – all good things but not Truth.