The urge to impose one's notion of truth and worth perhaps comes from one's insecurity.

Many a truth is compromised in thought's search for meaning.

Of late, the scholarly propensity to hold that something can be known in entirety and with certainty has become quite disquieting.

New beliefs

It is concerning that the new systems of beliefs I am being socialized into, even when tentatively held as truths, seem to shake the very foundations of many beliefs I held dearly for years.

Truth

Why does lie appear so easy to utter? Is there an evolutionary theorizing for truth?

Lie and statement

Is it not problematic that falsity of an utterance assumes the symbolic unity of the statement?

Truth and lie

What indeed is a lie if all that I know is at best a tentative truth?

Thoughts and beliefs

What thoughts eventually become beliefs? Are they the ones that are adjudged at least provisionally as logical, meaningful and/or functional?

Pertinent realities

A couple of days back I began my morning browsing the headline story on the closely guarded hanging of one of the accused terrorists. A skeptic that I am, I wondered whether the accused was really hanged or was he still kept secretly alive for some reason that a common man such as I may not fathom. As the question soon faded, a more basic one popped up - "Do I really care about the veracity of the matter?". In so questioning I did not realize that I had inadvertently embarked on a journey toward understanding truth.

Two + two

Of late, there are a few questions that are taking up too much of my mind share. The commonality of these questions is that they appear elementary and seem to frequent more often than due. Every time they occur they cajole me into unfolding them, and in the process they beget more questions and leave me increasingly embittered by my inadequacies to find any reasonable answers.