THE ALTITUDE

Is it possible to form a true conclusion without all the information of a system? Obviously yes — in a probabilistic sense, anything can be done, but not always consistently. What intrigues me most about truth is that it really has only one major component that separates it from information or noise — and that is consistency.

A lie, when measured against the highest degree of discernment, always falls short because it cannot check all its boxes without reshaping itself to make sense within known reality. Truth is unique in this matter because it shapes reality and is not shaped by it.

Human experience yearns to redefine truth as perspective. But perspective is merely the appearance of reality, not reality itself. The unsettling part of this is that no man or woman on earth experiences reality as it truly is. We are all blinded by noise and information that disguise themselves as truth.

The other side of this phenomenon is that we observe truth every day — yet it is our human psyche (senses, emotions, conscious thoughts, subconscious, etc.) that filters truth and conforms it to our personal beliefs, turning it into perspective.

Not all lies are big, but every lie manifests itself across many regions of thought, emotion, and the human psyche. One of the most fascinating parts of our reality is that if a lie is accepted as truth, your world will treat it as such — and only through observing the inconsistencies of that lie will it eventually fall short.

Remember how we said that truth shapes reality and is not shaped by it. If we accept this as truth, then we must also accept that truth is not only fundamental, but the raw law of reality itself — the very structure that creates this experience. To search for the fullness of truth, you must seek information that is both consistent and scalable. This can only be found in facts about the observable world that existed before man and will continue to exist after man.

A question for the reader: if most of our observed reality is filtered through our senses — and therefore often conceptualized as a lie — is reality’s existence contingent on a God-like being who sees the world as it truly is, whose perspective alone is truth? Could reality exist unless there were someone capable of observing it exactly as it is? In other words, could reality exist if there were no God who observes truth rather than perspective, as humans do?

This is a fascinating topic, and I love the idea that your perspective is yours alone — made up of truths, lies, and inconsistent thoughts and feelings. But the perspective of God is true: full of integrity and consistency, scaling the tower of discernment and laying the foundations of reality.