Truth
With A Capital 'T'
Bob Webster
From: "Bob Webster"
To: "'Positive Atheism'" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
Subject: Positive_Atheism_Letters_Section
Date: Monday, June 12, 2000 7:29 AM
Hello again! I just read some of your discussions on Truth (capital T) and felt I had to add something to the mix.
It seems to me that Truth is a dangerous commodity; it's OK to chase it but not to catch it. A pursuer of Truth is called a Thinker, but someone who has captured the Truth is called a Fanatic. I prefer to think of myself as pursuing Value, meaning I study to understand more and more about Reality without the danger of losing my spirit to continually question and seek. Even if I "catch" it, it only means I've gained from the experience and I can keep working toward the next bit of Value down the road. That doesn't necessarily mean I'm successful at any of this, but it helps me to not lose the appreciation of the wonders of the real world, which totally outclass the fictions created by our Theist philosophers and apologists.
Glad to see you're back to updating the site; it was a rather arid few months! Keep up the good work!
Thanks,
Robert Webster
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