Day-Night and Freedom

 

In childhood, we learn "opposite words", and one of such pairs was day and night. At a point of space and time on earth we either experience day or night. They never are simultaneous. So it seems that day and night are different events. We are told winters have longer nights and summers have longer days. Yes, it is correct, what is wrong with it - Nothing.

Now

If we see the earth from a certain distance, we can see different lengths of day and night simultaneously for infinite points of location on earth. Day and night happen together, they are not two events but the result of a small single phenomenon of sun rays falling on the earth, covering different areas day and night. The point of observation shifts and the interpretation differs. What is correct? What we learn in childhood that day and night happen at different times or what we have seen just now that day and night are simultaneous.

 If we see things differently our "correct knowledge" can even become "opposite" to itself. Just like for a long time people believed that the sun revolve around the earth because it was their observation with their set of experimental instruments and perception; at that time the universal truth was "the sun revolves around the earth ".Today the universal truth is that " earth revolves around the sun" and we can't say about         " universal truths "of the future. And just in this "easy" phenomenon, we can feel ambiguity and limitation of language and perception.

What is the definition of truth or correctness? What we can see and prove (but our instruments are limited and have limitations at a particular time) or that never changes with time?

 If the "truth" is one, then it should be the same for everyone and everyone should say the same things unless they lie. But everybody says different things and they are telling the "truths " as per their understanding. Or is the " truth" itself is just a perception of the mind and everybody see and perceive truth as per their minds, conditioning, belief system etc. 

Whatever it is, with all these "useless" arguments we can learn a practical "useful" thing--- Don't be too hard on others or become rigid because you think that your " truth" is the "truth".Because with time " your truths"  will change and so are everybody else's truths. A human can feel, let's just try that we do things that make us and others feel better or at least don't exploit others by becoming rigid because you think that your "truth " is the truth. Our languages, words, understandings, communication become limited in this infinite system.

 Besides every objective truth that can change with time, perhaps there is a subjective truth that does not change with time --- "there remains a truth for everyone at a particular time and to live in his/her truth is his/her freedom". Objectivity is not opposite to subjectivity but objectivity and subjectivity learn from each other and complement each other.

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