Cold Hard Truth

Appearance vs Reality is the distinction between the judgemental truth and the factual truth. To hide the reality, the world manifests more than one aspect of the circumstance. And, often reveals the matter that can satisfy or benefit oneself. Also, in order to conceal the earnest intention, one’s demeanor contradicts with the truth. Similarly, in Macbeth, the witches act duplicitous and decides Macbeth’s fate, to become king but for a limited time. The fate motivates Macbeth to become king and…

Religion is a special cultural phenomenon in the process of the development of human society and an important part of human traditional culture. It affects people's ideological consciousness, living customs and other aspects. However, under the influence of different social environments, political backgrounds and historical cultures, various countries have formed different religious cultures. In the history of Chinese civilization, religious culture, as an important part of traditional Chinese…

harmful than the truth and can have long-term effects. The person behind the bullshitting typically doesn’t care about what is true and what is false, he just wants to convince you that he is right. Sometimes, the person doing the bullshitting even starts to believe there own bullshit because they don’t have the insight of what the truth really is anymore. I think these are all important reasons behind why Frankfurt calls relativism bullshit. Relativism is the idea that knowledge or truth only…

Why is truth important to us or why do we think it is important? Why do we ask for the truth or swear on our lives that something is true even though sometimes it’s not? Even after we are given an answer, truth or lie, we will go further to make sure it’s true. Why do we do this? “being in accord with fact or reality, or fidelity to an original or standard. Truth may also often be used in modern contexts to refer to an idea of "truth to self," or authenticity.” Given this definition, truth is…

Have you ever wondered if Bigfoot is real? Due to all the creditable evidence I have found Bigfoot is real! He is known by many names; Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, to name a few. It reportedly lives in extremely remote areas of North America and other countries. But just because a countless numbers of people say they've seen the great hairy beast. Critics say people could be faking, due to hoaxes. Some evidence comes from videos, documentation, and National Geographic evidence. With all of this…

with being honest all the time. There are plentiful cons to being honest all the time. Nobody can imagine a person who is completely truthful. I know, the truth can hurt people’s feelings when you don’t want to hurt them. I have been in many situations where I had to lie because it might have hurt their feelings if I had told them the cold truth. So, I boldly believe that being honest all the time in a difficult position is laborious. But it lying might protect others, it might get you out of…

Western and Eastern cultures art reveals deep truths about the world. Cultures have different views and ideas about nature of reality. The direction of art is to portray beauty. With artistic realism in the 19th century and other shifts in taste, great art could be ugly in both its subject matter and its depiction. Western history, reality itself, created by God was conceived of as beautiful. The definitive voice in the identification of beauty with an ultimate reality was Plato theory. Beauty,…

Although there may be slight differences in the two subjects in present day, Religion was the earliest form of inquiry about the universe which directly resulted in modern Science and both intersect in the context of curiosity, belief and truth. Today’s most infamous religion, Islam, has many scientific allusions present in the Quran and the Hadiths (traditions/sayings of the prophet Muhammad). One of these allusions is present in the Quran describing the development of the embryo…

to relate fact telling and truth-telling. It is very easy to twist the truth without technically lying, but a fact is a fact. You cannot say something is a…

“When children ask such questions, they are trying to understand their world. They come into this world knowing and understanding very little and spend the rest of their lives trying to figure out everything (11).” This statement from How Do We Know? provides insight to the knowledge that many children and adults are grasping to understand. Children need adults to give advice and provide them the ability to grow up and be successful adults. Questions lead to answers which in return can turn…