Here are some truths, about 'Truth'.
1. Truth remains truth forever - It does not change with persons, places
and time.
2. Truth does not require anyone's sanction.
3. Truth does not require proof. Even if it cannot be proved in a court of law
or before learned people, it remains as truth only. It does not lose out
its character and force.
4. Truth can be spoken by anyone. There is no need for a minimum
qualification or status to speak truth.
5. Truth shall not be mixed with untruth/lie, as otherwise both will lose their
credibility. A half-truth is more dangerous than a 100% lie.
6. Truth suppressed is justice killed. When one has a duty to speak out,
he shall not hesitate to tell the truth. Silence in such a situation will
harm the believers in truth, but not the truth itself.
7. Truth is priceless. It cannot be purchased for a value, nor its worth
evaluated in material terms.
8. Truth saves the deserving people, from whatever danger or evils.
9. Truth cannot be rewritten to suit one's requirements and compulsions.
10. Truth is the voice of the God, in that it wins His ready approval,
though it may not be outwardly visible to or felt by everybody.
I would like to share some views on the first point from quote above: 1. Truth remains truth forever - It does not change with persons, places
and time.
This what I write below...is only for discussion and analysis...I am currently in no position to debate the efficacy of the above point.
Time is abstract, but as a concept is physical. The end of time is said to be metaphysical or the start of spirituality. The speed of light is considered the fastest possible by any physical matter. Time being a component to calculate speed. When anything attains the speed of light, science says, it will cease to be bound by time. However, contradictingly we say light travels from the Sun to the Earth in about 8 minutes. The stars we see other than the Sun are multiple times farther away from the Earth than the Sun. Normally, we call them to be light years away from the Earth. Here, distance is being referred using speed of light and relating it to our calendar year of 365 1/4 days. One light year means, light takes 365 1/4 days to reach from the source to a point of reference. Most stars are hundreds of light years away from the Earth.
The funny thing that people normally may not have thought about is that: When we see a star today and if it is 100 light years away, then the ray of light from the star that we are seeing right now originated years before we were even born!!! Have you ever thought about this? So we can see the past. The beauty of looking at the night sky is that, we are looking at so many stars together, when the light ray from each originated at different points of time (5 years, 10 years, 100 years, even a million years).
So, we can actually look at the state of different objects/stars from different points of time all at once as though they are all happening or being that way just now. So we look at the past and think it is the present. We all know that stars have a life span, it may be just few minutes, few hours, few days, few years, few thousand years or few million years. If one of the stars we saw last night had a life span of 5 thousand years and if it is located about 10 thousand light years away from the earth, then the star we saw yesterday, did not even exist yesterday.
The fun part is: We normally call a person lunatic if a person says they can see things that dont exist. But, when all of us see something that does not exist like the star, we dont call ourselves lunatic. In other words, it would be our "bad time" if we ever saw something like that and others cant see it.
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