Truth: A Study

To not believe in absolute truth is like someone saying that he does not accept his mother as his mother in the absolute sense. In other words, he might say, “It may be that she is my mother, but it may also be that she is not.” No serious person can tolerate this concept of nonabsolutism. In the same way, a serious person cannot accept to say that to him; the truth is not absolute but merely relative. That is to say, that A can be confirmed and B, too, and C as well, all the way up to Z! It may be equally true that from A to Z, everything is utterly false and that there is no such thing as truth! No serious person can accept this absurd intellectual jugglery. A serious person searching for the truth can honestly admit, “I have not yet found the truth. I am presently only a seeker.” However, no serious and sane person can say that truth is not something absolute and that there is nothing like Absolute Truth. Every single thing in the universe in which man lives is absolute. So, a star is a star; it is not an elephant. An elephant is an elephant, not a star. Likewise, everything is, in a known sense, an absolute thing. Moreover, if