Week 3 Journal Assignment

Q: What’s Truth? An Idea? Reality? Abstraction? Can it be represented in (an) image(s)?

Truth is undeniable. Truth is pure. Truth is not reality, it’s the other way around: reality is truth. Existence (reality) is undeniable and pure, even though at times it may seem as though it is not. You are here, and alive, and that cannot be argued. This is the truth. Nature (the world, the universe) is truth, because it exists naturally. The functions and constructs of society are not the truth. They are not a lie because they do, in fact, exist, but these notions are arbitrary. Human emotions are truth, so long as they are detached from description. Society, media in particular, masturbates the idea of emotions and we get caught up in the ideals of them as oppose to the feelings themselves. Our feelings and emotions, in and of themselves, are undeniable and pure. The words and ideals we attach to them are arbitrary, and simply constructs of society. They serve as a tool of communication so we may attempt to collectively understand them. While this is, in most cases, beneficial, it is secondary to reality (truth) and experience itself.