Intrinsic Relativity

You can boast about anything if it's all you have.

- John Steinbeck

The deception of this world lies in its ability fool us into mistaking relative value for intrinsic. And and subjective measures for objective.

If my son Jerry can be more proud of his home made kite built with palm frands, a trash bag, and a potato sack than another child is of his or her $200 stunt-kite, what does that say about the true value of material things? They are relative. And yet we love to pretend these things have absolute value.

Another thing. Did anyone ever tell you that 95% of what you learned in science class was false? It's true. The vast majority of science curriculum teaches simplified models of scientific principles that have long been proven false. I'm not denying the educational value of these models. But at one point they were all considered true. Newton's laws of motion? What goes up must come down? These once formed the basis of our understanding of the universe. And yet, any modern physicist would admit that they are false. What does it say about our understanding of the universe that what is true today may tomorrow be false? Everything is subjective. And yet we love to tought the objectivity of our science.

Nothing has value except that which is given by God. And nothing is true except that which was proclaimed by Him.