Questions of Truth

We live in truth-challenged times. Debate on the very nature of truth rages around us. With the advent of social media and text messaging, truth and truth telling face a unique threat. Truth doesn’t seem to matter to a lot of Americans these days. They relish in their leaders lying. Have we always been like this? That’s just one question about truth. There are many, many more. Answer these in your mind or in your heart, with words or music or art.

Here are some questions of truth:

What’s the one true thing?

Is there such thing as true love?

How does truth reveal itself?

Where or who do you go to for the truth? Could be a place, state of mind, activity, person, pet or book.

Respond to: the truth will set you free.

What truth can’t America handle?

Is science more true than poetry?

What’s your personal relationship to the truth?

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth said Buddha. Was he right?

Where is truth buried?

The truth is rarely pure and never simple said Oscar Wilde. Was he right?

What are the ingredients of a truth serum?

What gives truth a bad name?

What’s a half truth in your life?

Why don’t some people believe climate change is true?

Why do politicians have such a difficult time telling the truth?

What’s the best way to break up with someone? Tell the truth or lie?

If truth were a landscape, what would it look like?

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it said Emily Dickinson. Was she wrong?

What is something someone is sugarcoating the truth to you? Or did so in the recent past?

Suppose you had Wonder Woman’s lasso of truth at your disposal. What would you do with it?

The bitter truth is…?

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake said Wallace Stevens. This seems exactly right.

How can you tell if someone isn’t telling the truth?

Is a headline in a newspaper truth?

What don’t I believe is true but seemingly everyone around me does?

What part/place of nature reveals truth?

All the truths in the world add up to one big lie said Bob Dylan. What does that mean Bob?

Truth or dare?

What’s the better story to tell? The lie or the truth?

Can there be multiple versions of the truth of an experience?

Why is the Flat Earth Society gaining so many new members?

Can a male writer reveal the truth of a female experience?

Has social media facilitated/promoted/enabled/encouraged/rewarded more or less truth in our lives? (choose the verb you want)

Can a white writer reveal the truth of a person of color’s experience?

Does the truth change under duress?

What’s the greatest ongoing battle for truth in American culture?

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters said Albert Einstein. Very true. Just look at us now.

Adversity is the first path to truth said Lord Byron. True, but many Americans face no adversity. They are ensconced in luxury and delusion.