Straight lines

There is an absolute levelness and a perfectly straight line. It’s an objective thing that we can measure.

If we shine a perfect, flat, straight laser line at a wall, we have a straight line. However, if the floor is not level, that straight line is going to look crooked when cast onto the crooked wall. If we didn’t know that the line was objectively straight and the true line, we wouldn’t know which was wrong, the wall or the laser line.

Now, imagine that your point of view is a tilted house. Everything you look at will be a mystery whether it is good or bad, right or wrong. That is, unless you have some touchstone against which you can measure objective reality or truth.

So, I believe that there is an objective reality and an objective truth. If not, we float through life in a crooked house, while never knowing if anything is right or wrong, real or fake, and no way to examine it.

Straight lines are interesting things.