How is reality defined?
Seeing that each one
defines it differently.
Is it purely subjective?
The opposite of objective.
Meaning,
your reality
can differ from mine.
Yet, how do we communicate
if what I say
means something else to you
than what I intended?
And what you say
I interpret
differently?
Take Rose.
She presents as a she.
Yet to me
she merely is a he,
presenting as a she.
A he,
not a she,
to me.
Yet, when I address him,
I do so as a she.
To communicate effectively,
like talking in a foreign tongue,
I need to speak
not in my own tongue
to be understood.
And to understand.
Take the definition of Truth.
“What is truth”?
Asked Pilate,
an ancient character.
For millennia,
a subject
occupying philosophers
and preoccupying searchers after truth.
Igniting countless wars:
Religious,
political,
intergenerational
cultural
existential
territorial.
At times,
condensing into
a mere issue of semantics.
To add the preposition
“To me…”,
takes away the contention of
“I know, and you don’t”.
Which inflames
and shuts down.
If we aim
for effective communication,
yet insist
that reality is ours alone,
we hit massive walls
to being understood
and to understand.
To come back to Reality then,
is there such a thing?
“I think therefore I am,”
pronounced Descartes
and caused an avalanche of thought.
Much earlier,
“I AM’
pronounced His existence.
Defining His identity
His timelessness
And His unquestionable reality.
To everyone’s astonishment,
He confirmed it
while in the form of a man;
the main reason
they nailed Him to a cross.
Now, dealing with Truth,
the cousin of Reality,
do we fare any differently?
Again,
much controversy exists,
leading to the syndrome
Pilate must have been suffering from
when asking his famous question.
Interesting to note,
the One he was addressing,
defining Himself as “I AM”,
also stated to be “Truth”.
With the added ingredient of faith,
for Him to be understood
and for us to understand.
9 August 2020