Can you be a seeker of genuine truth?

[Chike]

By questioning and analyzing EVERYTHING told to you. Questioning authority, and researching the entire world. Exercising your mind to make it stronger.

 

[BiblicalAtheist]

how can we really rise above what has been programme in us a children to even begin to understand other truths....

By critical questioning and reasoning. Where did that idea come from? Why do I feel compelled to think that? Have I ever experienced that belief I have? What basis do I have to think this/that? Who influenced those thoughts?

Edit: the more this is done the more it becomes apparent "shit, I don't know anything, all I think I know is what I've read or heard".

 

[toktaylor]

By critical questioning and reasoning. Where did that idea come from? Why do I feel compelled to think that? Have I ever experienced that belief I have? What basis do I have to think this/that? Who influenced those thoughts?

Edit: the more this is done the more it becomes apparent "shit, I don't know anything, all I think I know is what I've read or heard".

But if you were raised a particular way and then is confronted with other beliefs (which seems like rubbish to you) how are you going to trust the edicts of a new particular structure or organization, how do you know that the structure is telling you the truth?

 

[Chike]

But if you were raised a particular way and then is confronted with other beliefs (which seems like rubbish to you) how are you going to trust the edicts of a new particular structure or organization, how do you know that the structure is telling you the truth?

By questioning and analyzing EVERYTHING told to you. Questioning authority, and researching the entire world. Exercising your mind to make it stronger.

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[BiblicalAtheist]

But if you were raised a particular way and then is confronted with other beliefs (which seems like rubbish to you) how are you going to trust the edicts of a new particular structure or organization, how do you know that the structure is telling you the truth?

Critical thinking skills and an open mind help a great deal. Imo, the best way to test the veracity of the new structure would be to see how far you can experience it, reflect on it and reason it out.

 

[alissowack]

I don't think it's possible to seek The Truth. Maybe we can easily obtain a truth or a lifetime of truths, but to find the truth that defines all truths is a search no man is fit to do. If anything, The Truth will find us and when it does, it will hold us captive and it either be "heaven or hell" to the soul that it reveals itself to.