I'll try to explain my point of view one more time.

A. I put "universal truths" in quotations for a reason. Because some "universal truths", as you were saying, Ex Nine, are not universal, though many think they are.

B. I am not a relativist. Do I believe my truth is better than your truth, of course! Why? Because I'm a human functioning within her own subjective reality.

C. I don't visit the philosophy forum to defend my religion. Why? Because you don't care.

Now, through my own experiences (namely studying Russian literature in depth), I have come to the conclusion that truth is subjective. Imagine a room, an empty room. Now, if I say that I see a chair and you don't, it doesn't matter whether the chair exists or not because the fact that it does exist is my truth. If you see the chair and I don't, I believe the chair doesn't exist (and that you are crazy), and that's my truth. Moving on, imagine that same empty room and I see the chair, but 10 other people don't see it. Who is right? We have two truths: my truth, and the truth of 10 other people. I could try to explain to them that I see the chair, right there, clear as daylight, but would that make a difference? They still don't see it.

There are two main questions to ask in this scenario: how do you judge whose truth is more accurate? and, what happens if the one person who sees the chair is right? That is what you must consider when dealing with philosophy.

Originally posted by kimpossible
You can argue with it all you want, but you will ALWAYS be wrong.
Subjective.

-Amethyst Star