WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 Hi, this week we have been ruminating about truth. 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:06.719 I hope you've enjoyed it. We've seen that truth 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:09.779 gives us something solid to stand on. That it 00:00:09.779 --> 00:00:12.460 is not something forced on us, but something 00:00:12.460 --> 00:00:16.300 we can discover. We've seen that truth can surprise 00:00:16.300 --> 00:00:20.539 us. That it depends on where we start. And that 00:00:20.539 --> 00:00:24.780 over time, even our thinking can change. And 00:00:24.780 --> 00:00:27.620 all of that leads me to a question that I just 00:00:27.620 --> 00:00:33.079 love to ask. where does truth come from? Is truth 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:36.979 something we create or something we discover? 00:00:37.899 --> 00:00:41.500 Because the more I think about math, the more 00:00:41.500 --> 00:00:45.259 it feels like we are uncovering something that 00:00:45.259 --> 00:00:49.399 was already there, not inventing it, but finding 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:54.299 it. That is a, quote, light bulb turn on moment 00:00:54.299 --> 00:00:58.100 for me. Because if truth is something we discover, 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:02.359 then it does not need to be forced. It does not 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:05.420 need to be protected by arguments that we have 00:01:05.420 --> 00:01:08.340 not fully examined or held together by reasoning 00:01:08.340 --> 00:01:14.500 that circles back on itself. It can stand. And 00:01:14.500 --> 00:01:17.840 we're free to explore it. And sometimes what 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:22.359 we find stretches us, even to the point where 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:27.239 two things can feel true at the same time, like 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:31.700 a paradox. Math is full of moments like this. 00:01:31.900 --> 00:01:36.180 For example, there are infinitely many rational 00:01:36.180 --> 00:01:40.859 numbers. Numbers like 1 half, 3 fourths, 5 sixths. 00:01:40.859 --> 00:01:44.900 And yet, compared to all numbers, including the 00:01:44.900 --> 00:01:48.620 irrational numbers, they make up almost nothing 00:01:48.620 --> 00:01:55.359 in size. Ha! Infinitely many and yet almost nothing 00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:59.590 at the same time. It does not seem like it should 00:01:59.590 --> 00:02:06.989 make sense. And yet, it does. I find the same 00:02:06.989 --> 00:02:10.969 surprise in life. Clearly, we live in a world 00:02:10.969 --> 00:02:13.389 where things do not always seem to fit together. 00:02:13.729 --> 00:02:18.189 We see beauty, and we see brokenness. We see 00:02:18.189 --> 00:02:24.169 kindness, and we see cruelty. We see hope, and 00:02:24.169 --> 00:02:28.340 we see pain. And sometimes it feels like we have 00:02:28.340 --> 00:02:33.199 to choose, like one must cancel the other. But 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:38.819 what if truth is deeper than that? What if it 00:02:38.819 --> 00:02:44.539 is big enough to hold tension? Big enough to 00:02:44.539 --> 00:02:50.000 hold complexity? Big enough to hold both what 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:54.930 is broken and what is beautiful? And what if 00:02:54.930 --> 00:03:00.569 the source of truth is not cold or distant, but 00:03:00.569 --> 00:03:05.069 something that draws us in, something that invites 00:03:05.069 --> 00:03:10.530 us to keep asking, keep searching, keep discovering. 00:03:11.490 --> 00:03:15.229 Because the more I experience truth this way, 00:03:15.349 --> 00:03:18.990 the less it feels like something I have to defend, 00:03:19.250 --> 00:03:23.250 and the more it feels like something I can trust. 00:03:24.330 --> 00:03:27.530 Not because I figured everything out, but because 00:03:27.530 --> 00:03:33.090 I've seen enough just to keep going. So my question 00:03:33.090 --> 00:03:37.270 to complete our week is, what if truth is not 00:03:37.270 --> 00:03:42.770 something to fear, but a light that draws us 00:03:42.770 --> 00:03:48.349 near? And the truth is, I sincerely appreciate 00:03:48.349 --> 00:03:52.050 that you are listening. This is Intersecting 00:03:52.050 --> 00:03:52.250 Us.