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Originally Posted by outback  My personal answer to your question is "cohesiveness". Whoever is telling me they have figured out the "ultimate truth/reality", I listen to how they explain the entire system, how everything jives together from the smallest of scales to the largest. If it is all cohesive, and if I am not asked to harm any other creature in following this system, I take it as true. |
But you have to admit, all we are going on is our perspective, and our ability to comprehend what they are saying, right?
Maybe they are a prophet, and I understood them as they intended. Or maybe I completely misunderstood the prophet, but still arrived at something that I felt was deeply true? Or maybe the person is not a prophet at all, but due to my misunderstanding, I still arrived at a truth that a real prophet might have said? I have no way of differentiating these cases, do I?
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Ultimately, your conscience is the judge and you are responsible only for yourself. If you think you figured out the ultimate truth, then that's all that matters.
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I agree with you on that, and in a way that's my whole point... I just don't see how we can claim something is "universal" when all we have to go by is our own experience.