Do you believe you know the truth about life?

If a person has no idea and can see potential truths in many conflicting theories, what does that mean?
Is there such a thing as 'truth'? Or is that in itself infact an illusion?
Can a person believe they are a good person and it in fact be wrong? Or is your own perspective on yourself everything?

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DDonde · 31-35, M

[quote]If a person has no idea and can see potential truths in many conflicting theories, what does that mean? [/quote]
It means they don't know.
[quote]Is there such a thing as 'truth'?[/quote]
Yes. You can make true statements and false statements.
[quote]Can a person believe they are a good person and it fact be wrong?[/quote]
Yes.
[quote] Or is your own perspective on yourself everything? [/quote]
No.

MushroomFaerie

@DDonde I know it means they don't know... That's pretty much exactly what I said, I'm asking what it means to be unsure when everybody appears to have their own solid views on everything.
Truth about life not things like every day interactions or what makes sense in a court of law... The question is a philosophical one which is obvious.
The yes and no answers make me feel like your being a smart ass here

DDonde · 31-35, M

@MushroomFaerie What it means to be unsure when it appears like everyone around you thinks they have it all figured out... I would say that that means that you may have actually given it some more thought than they have. That you employ skepticism where they do not.
However that's not necessarily true either - You can have conviction in beliefs even after you have applied skepticism to them. But I suppose many people just go about life, accepting certain ideas about reality without really thinking too hard about it.
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I'm not trying to be a smart-ass.

MushroomFaerie

@DDonde thankyou, I guess if you put effort in and you try in this life then that's all it can possibly want... Maybe