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What is the truth?
How can we tell what the truth is, in this supposedly ‘post-truth,’ ‘alternative facts,’ world?
Does the truth even matter any more?
Let’s break this down, dearest nerdlets.
Caution: This is one of those existential crises type posts with more questions than answers! Enjoy! 😅
So, what is the truth?
The truth is something that’s real, right?
But how do we define that? Is it something 100% rooted in fact? Something for which there is incontrovertible proof?
Or do emotional truths count as true as well?
People may consider God as true — there is no incontrovertible evidence for the existance of God.
But if God is true to you, who am I to argue?
In the same vein, gender or sexual identities can’t be ‘proved’ to anyone outside yourself.
…Because other people can’t feel what you feel.
But that doesn’t make it untrue.
(The opposite. Your identity is yours to define. Don’t let other people tell you otherwise.)