Truth

There seems to be this tension between different methods of discovering truth. Isn't that paradoxical! Scientists arguing with religious men etc. How ridiculous! If it's true, it will be true no matter what lens we view it through. My dad sometimes argues with my uncle about the church. My uncle maintains that there are certain points of our doctrine he just can't make himself believe. My dad usually responds with, "Quite frankly, it doesn't matter what you believe. I doesn't matter what I believe. It matter's what's true. So I'm telling you how to find out what's true." Similarly, in his book Reflections of a Scientist Henry Eyring, the father of Henry B. Eyring said basically that one of the things he loved about this church is that it doesn't require him to believe anything that isn't true. That's a simplistic way of putting it but that's not something you can say about all religions or even all scientific theories. That's why I loved this week. I got to see great parallels between revealed doctrine and what social science and observation is telling us. If it's true, it shouldn't matter the context. It will still be true! We talked a lot about "falling in love" and the way we select marriage partners. Our superior intellect and the way we behave do not always line up. We quote often have a complete misconception of what love is and what it takes to make a great marriage. If a marriage fails, it doesn't necessarily mean that the love wasn't real. Even true love is going to take a conscious effort to maintain. But it would also help if we stopped marrying people just because we're attracted to them. Each person loves differently but not all the styles are lasting or even good and definitely not conducive to a strong family. We also talked about cohabitation. I thought this was interesting because I've known quite a few people who did this. It does NOT make a good primer for marriage. People think they can live together to get a feel before marriage. It doesn't work it's hard to go from living like that to being one. Plus there are going to things about your marriage partner that you don't like. We need to learn to live with things that are just preferences and be willing to work through actual imperfections. I thought I'd finish this post of with something fun. I love this Brad Paisley song and the music video is cute and will demonstrate what I'm talking about. You'll see what I mean.