Real Truth.

While we were going over the existentialism chapter, my attention was directed towards page 191 on the discussion of truth. The parable of the two worshipers interested me not only on a philosophical level, but also a realistic level. The parable states that there are two worshipers one who prays to the one true God and the other who prays to an idol. The worshiper who prays to the true God and has a real conception of God prays in a false spirit. He maybe just prays because he feels like he is obligated to and has no real emotion towards God. The person who worships the idol, though the idol isn't the real thing , the worshiper prays in a real spirit. To be honest I agree with Kierkegaard when he implies the person who is preying to the idol is the one that holds the real truth. I can see this on a realistic level because when I go to church I see people jumping up and down and fainting, and sometimes I think they aren't feeling the real spirit, they aren't worshiping truthfully. I really don't know because I am not inside their head, but sometimes I feel like they jump up and down because they may feel like they are obligated to. Then I look at the person who sits there not making a sound, just sitting there quite as a mouse and I think maybe they are the one who is having the real connection with God although many think in order to worship God you must jump and dance. I didn't mean to go into something like this , but the parable just made me think about that.
There is no real definition to truth, everyone has their own truth. Kierkegaard says that "the most passionate inwardness is the truth, the highest truth attainable for an existing individual." In other words, once someone is doing something whole-heartedly and full of emotion and not faking it, that is their truth. Truth requires feeling, emotional feeling that one exerts into somthing. Ithink this topic struck me also because of the example that is always used in class. Look out the window and you see the tree, how do you know the tree is really there. Unless you believe whole-heartedly that you see a tree , instead of just thinking "yea I guess thats a tree," then you have discovered your truth. It is important hold on to your truth once you have attained it. It is important that everything is done in truth and with passion. It is only through truth that we can have faith and only through faith we can have life.