Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Trending News

Promoted
Harkness
Lv 7
Harkness asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 7 years ago

Do you agree with this quote, "Experiential truth expresses your own self-knowledge"?

It came up in the fictional random Deepak Chopra quote generator which puts together fictional quotes "generated from a list of words that can be found in Deepak Chopra's Twitter stream randomly stuck together in a sentence."

http://www.wisdomofchopra.com/

I was just clicking on the "receive more wisdom..." link over and over for the lulz and that quote came up. It struck me as almost true.

Personally I'd say "Experiential truth expresses your own self-beliefs" is more true, but "self-knowledge" is close. The idea of either quote seems to me to strike at what religion is founded on, especially those who rely on personal testimonies to rationalize their faith.

Do you agree with either quote, or do you believe experiential true (however you define that) is objective in some way?

Update:

@Inge - I'm positive it DID come from a random quote generator, just as I explained and linked to in the very first sentence of the details.

@Ricardo - I can't totally be imagination. Sometimes the truth you draw from your experience is objectively true and sometimes it is not.

@G C - I sort of agree, but the question delves into what is true vs. what you think is true and your rationalization for what you think is true. Does using "experiential truth" to determine what you belief to be objectively true open the door to perceptions of "truth" that are in fact colored (or warped) by your preexisting knowledge and preexisting beliefs?

4 Answers

Relevance
  • Ricardo
    Lv 7
    7 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    It is not self-knowledge or self-beliefs it is "imagination".

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Are you sure this quote didn't come from a random pretension generator?

  • G C
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    It doesn't even make sense as truth is always true, whether you state it or not.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    GOD DID ALL APPLY IT OR SUFFER WITH SATAN!?!?!?!

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.