Truth

Matthew made apple turnovers for the party we attended Friday night. We also tok a dessert roll that his partner had made. Later he made scones.

Thursday night M cooked smash burgers.

Charlie Woods: then and now.

DENISON: we are living in a “post-truth” culture. The claim that all truth claims are personal and subjective is known academically as “relativism.” It is illogical, to claim there are no objective truths is to make an objective truth claim. It’s like saying, “It’s a fact that there are no such things as facts.” The delusion that reality must conform to our opinions is pervasive and dangerous. A recent study found only 61% of Americans believe in the existence of heaven and hell. Only half those who think hell exists believe it will be a place of suffering.

I can deny the existence of the Washington Monument, but that doesn’t make the Washington Monument less real. Such spiritual relativism is one of Satan’s subtlest strategies. If he can lure us into viewing eternal realities through the prism of our personal beliefs, by the time we discover how wrong we were, it will be too late.

What is the relevance of a dictionary if its editors can change definitions based on their personal subjective truth? What will we do when different dictionaries offer conflicting definitions?  If words can mean anything we want them to mean, we cannot have speed limits or traffic laws. If your “north” is different from my “north,” we cannot have a map that works for us both. The nonsense of such a worldview is intuitively obvious. This is why relativists only exercise relativism when it benefits them personally. People who have decided there is no such thing as heaven or hell don’t want to live with the fact their beliefs and actions in this world have eternal consequences in the next.

https://www.denisonforum.org/daily-article/home-depot-employees-return-lost-envelope-filled-with-cash/

BROOKS ROBINSON  [SABR Bio] first World Series at-bat, homered off Don Drysdale on 05-Oct-1966 in the top of the first,^t after a two run HR by Frank Robinson. No player in major league history played more seasons for one team. Brooks’ 23 seasons w/BAL is tied with Carl Yastrzemski’s 23 w/BOS. As a boy, Brooks operated the scoreboard at a field in his hometown and then began his playing career there. That field is now on the National Register of Historic Places: Lamar Porter Field in Little Rock, is a point of immense civic pride.