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What is the Truth? They say that each individual has his own truth.. Then, are there many truths, or only one?,

What is the Truth? They say, that each individual has his own truth and lives up to it. The, are there many thruths, or only one? How to describe the concept of truth?

Algimantas
2006-03-06 15:51:33

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Algimantis,
Have you considered scanning it on to disc. CD media is very cheap here. It would be a time consuming process, but would allow you to proceed. Perhaps you could even do it as an audio disc. This might be faster as you could break it into sections and get a few people to read into the mike.
Great effort. I'll be back.
Bill,
Faith son

Bill
2006-07-19 01:59:39

Thank you for your good intention and the contribution to the Forum which is actually OURS.
I HAVE STUDIED THE PAPERS FIRST IN ENGLISH. And then, translated The Urantia Book, being only a tool in the hands of the Father, into Lithuanian. It took me ten years to translate and edit it. And Urantia Foundation printed it in Canada. Our translation has been available for less than two years only. Plus Urantia Foundation is not shipping new books to Lithuanai for almost a full year claiming they have somo problems
with the Distrubutor in Lithuania. And I go on the street of Viljnius, our capital, with The Urantia Book almost every day and people do come up to my desk an ddesire to buy a copy but there is none on sale. That a sad story, SO FAR.
I did notice more or less similar changes while reading The Urantia Book, and then while translating, that my concpets were deepened every time I was reading it. And in some cases I noticed that, due to such an extensive information, my concrepts have been also not only corrected and deepened but also reshaped. And the porcess is going on.
Pece be upon you.
With brotherly love,
Algimantas

Algimantas
2006-07-17 21:14:49

Algimantis,
Thanks for the thanks. You certainly demonstrate great understanding of the Papers. Did you study the Papers in English or Lithuanian? I ask because I wonder if the magic of the composition of the Papers comes across in other languages. Having read the Papers several times in English, my only language, I notice that each reading alters the previous perceptions. I take marginal notes so I can see what I thought in 1999 or 1989 and compare it with what I think as I read the same section today. Has this been your experience in your study? It took me quite a while to begin to grasp the evolution of the Supreme. Understanding itself seems to be evolutionary.
I will check back here frequently and try to keep the ball rolling.
Bill,
Faith son

Bill
2006-07-17 14:33:57

Thank you, Bill, for your sincere response.
I do agree with you, that there is the ONLY TRUTH - THE FIRST SOURCE AND CENTER, manifested to the creation as the Universal Father. Our Father, and your Father, and my Father.
I posed these three questions just for others to speculate on to start our English Forum. I have been presenting spiritual teachings to those who desire to grow spiritually in Lithuanian since Saulius and I started this website as individuals, and he is responsible for the technical side of the website while I am responsible for the contents.
This we have been doing for almost eighteen months and our Lithuanian Forum is becoming more and more live with discussions on spiritual issues. And the majority of the participants have not read The Urantia Book thus they need basics, at first.
That is why I also put the three questions as the litmus paper to start the English version of our Forum for I did not expect that the very first attendee would be well versed in The Urantia Book.
And as you may see from the date I have posted the questions on the FIRST ANSWER ARRIVED ONLY NOW, FOUR MONTHS LATER. Congratulations on being the innaugurator of the English Forum of the Lithuanian website of The Urantia Book. I do belleve that soon there would be other joining our duet.
To what you have just expressed I may add that even though there is only ONE TRUTH, but that part of it one has experienced personally becomes an ASSIMILATED TRUTH and turns into a higher step for discovering a still higher step to be assimilated thru one's NEW personal experience.
By stating THEY SAY I mean different people with different vantage points on the very same issue of truth.
And the truth is beyond description for it is A LIVING TRUTH. THE MOMENT YOU HAVE DESCRIBED IT IT HAS ALREADY CHANDED, EVEN BY A FRACTION OF A SECOND. Thus, truth is LIVING and that is why IT MUST BE LIVED.
Peace be upon you.
With brotherly love,
Algimantas

Algimantas
2006-07-16 21:50:21

Algimantas,
There is no such thing as individual truth. This is the philosophical error of relativism. The major truth is GOD. All other understandings are relative to this truth, but are all consistent with it as much as they are correct. Relativism allows for inconsistencies with the only knowable truth. GOD is.
In reading the Urantia papers keep in mind that truth is revealed to the level of comprehension of the seeker. However a number of basic truths assumed by some major religions are clearly stated to be false in the Papers. If individual truths are accepted in your thinking then you would have to assume that these things must also be true if so many believe them to be such. Yet as a student of the Papers you must immediately unincorporate these false assumtions from your reasoning process. Not to do so is self delusional.
So, yes, there is absolute truth. There is also relative truth which allows for varied percentages of truth perception, but does not incorporate nontruth other than as scaffolding.
By the way, who are the they that say?
Bill,
Faith son

Bill
2006-07-09 02:51:26

Dear Bill, thank you for the advice. This we have in mind for the future. At the moment we do not have material resources for this. But, as you well know, everything is in the Father's hands. And it is wonderful that we have this website that holds all the Lithuanian text. Thus I travel around Lithuania and on the streets of different cities I speak out a living word of God and the message of The Urantia Book and along with this I distribute leaflets with the information on The Urantia Book and our website. But my resources are limited since I live only on donations and there are very few who know The Urantia Book in Lithuania and even fewer who donate to me. Thus I am stricly limited in traveling. The more so that I have sold my 16 year old BMW so now I am stuck to my own city - Vilnius where I go on my bike. I have a small foldable table that I place into a plastic bag and hang on the handle-bars, while three copies - two in Lithuanian and one in English - of The Urantian Book I place into a bag that I carry on my back. So this is my material gear.
But I trust the Father and lean exclusively on His leading.
Peace be upon you.
With brotherly love,
Algimantas

Algimantas
2006-07-19 10:03:34

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