"Truth" is a place where all ideas, philosophies, sciences, religions, arts, and any other ideas are discussed to discover whether they correspond to reality as reality really is.
About Me: My name is Mark O'Neil. I am a theist (Christian), a scientist by profession, and an amateur philosopher. I have always been interested in the subject of "truth" what it is and how do we know it. I became ...very serious about "truth" when I had a personal religious experience in 1997. At that moment I became a genuine Christian and began the quest for "truth" more seriously as I wondered how can I be confident and sure that my religious experience was authentically true. Afterall, as Charles Dickens says via dialog between Ebenezer Scrooge when Scrooge encounters the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, face to face
"`You don't believe in me,'' observed the Ghost.
``I don't,'' said Scrooge.
``What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your senses?''
``I don't know,'' said Scrooge.
``Why do you doubt your senses?''
``Because,'' said Scrooge, ``a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!''
This point marked the serious beginning point of my quest for "truth". I began to research "truth", and discovered there are no simplistic "easy answers" to the question of "truth" and how do we know it when we come across it. I have been attempting to compile my research of this subject and related questions into some books. That is my ultimate goal, but while I travel along this journey you can perhaps learn from and share in my quest for truth as I post them here.
