The Function of Truth

The underlying function of the so-called truth were conceived and implemented by people of superior intellect, to help commoners differentiate, be it between rights and wrongs, or simply between ones own belief.
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The Quest

In search of the Holy Grail of truth, off I went to the very sources in question, but only to understand and characterize the basic underlying definitions of the word “truth”. The key to understanding the truth about truth starts with understanding the meaning of the word- the meaning of the word as accepted by the majority of the population. Like any university educated professional would, I turned to the web to seek the fundamental definitions: Merriam-Webster® defines truth as “sincerity in action, character, and utterance” “the state of being the case: fact” and “the body of real things, events, and facts: actuality” The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language defines truth as “Conformity to fact or actuality” “A statement proven to be or accepted as true” “Sincerity; integrity” “Fidelity to an original or standard” When I Googled the word truth, I observed a very interesting set of advertisers trying to catch my attentions, three Churches and one story about sex slaves in Cambodia. Coincidence? I don't care.
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The Truth

What is the truth? A very common question we encounter almost daily- be it while finding out why the pizza crust failed to swell like promised by the maker, or why your co-worker who works less than you gets to keep his job while you get canned. My quest was not to find the reasons to support the truth, in other words I am not after the facts that support a statement making it true or false, but simply to understand what we perceive as the truth and everything it encompasses. I am not talking about the philosophical meaning of the truth either, but the everyday accepted notion that you and I are so compliant with and consider true.
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Prelude to the End of Truth

Years ago, when I wrote a response to a blog concerning truth is news reporting, I defined truth as “a pretentious concoction formulated by oneself to nurture their moral idiosyncratic predisposition”, and was not surprised by the outcry that followed. Individuals disagreed, dismissed my ideas as radical and asserted that truth has no versions, only lies does. Some even went to the extent of pointing out that my opinion were as muddled as my name, I thought that was funny. Strong conviction and ideology are not necessarily complimentary, one can believe abortion is bad but is for capital punishment, the end result of both are the same, systematic termination of a human life. Though the point in contention was not what was true, but what one believed was true, their convenient oversight of a simple observation that differed from their own belief provoked me to dissect the human acceptance of an “interpretation” as a “fact”.
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