To think 'my truth' or 'your truth' doesn't mean THE truth?

[FridayNightAtTheBronze]

I've seen this phrase used so much recently, and it really irritates me for some reason!

People saying 'This is my truth.'

Surely they just mean 'This is my side of the story'.

Or

'This is my version of events'.

AIBU to think that 'my truth' shouldn't be conflated with telling THE truth? And to be irrationally irritated when I hear it?!

No, you're not. It's another shorthand wokeism imo and it passes me right off.

YANBU but some things don't have an incontrovertible truth.

It pisses me off too.

Not people telling their story or having their say, just the phrasing of it...but I'm a raging pedant about that kind of thing.

Surely this refers to the concept that perception is everything, and that ‘truth’ as an independent construct doesn’t exist?

YANBU. It is the self-righteous and self-deluding way or rewriting history, and means absolutely nothing.
I refuse to believe anybody that says "my truth". I can only hear a bunch of self-centered lies.

Yep her truth or my truth is just that persons pont of view. Revolting americanism

There's no such thing as truth.

When people use the term, they mean "an accurate version of events from my perspective." So "my truth" is a more valid term than just plain truth, because truth outside of personal understanding of it cannot exist as a concept within humans.

It's possible to believe someone's version of events is accurate. It's not possible to believe there is an accurate version of events that is not understood - or at least, not understandable - because without being understood, it cannot be confirmed to be accurate.

I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t think anyone can actually tell ‘The truth’ in an objective way. We only ever have our own version and we can’t step outside of the perspective that colours it. So I think there can be an honesty in acknowledging that ‘one’s truth’ is not necessarily the same as ‘The truth’ but it’s the best one can do.

I think it's a cheeky duck out. Meaning that's my side of the story.

This is post modernism that says there is only subjective truth. It’s been around a long time - Pilot says to Jesus ‘What is truth?’.

Personally I regard that there is an ultimate truth in a situation that falls through perception to ‘what is’.

What skirk64 said. Unless it’s a very binary thing like did you put the bins out, ‘truth’ is just someone’s perspective on what happened.

@MintyCedric

No, you're not. It's another shorthand wokeism imo and it passes me right off.

What's wrong with being woke? Surely that is the result of hearing THE truth.

As opposed to getting all your 'facts' from the daily fail and remaining ignorant.

Can't really call something "my truth" when anyone could just make the whole thing up.

I think it's often used as a passive aggressive way of implying the other side isn't telling the truth - there can't be 'my truth' without 'your truth'.

@SkedaddIe

Honestly I'm not overseen on the term woke either.

One can be open-minded and liberal without being a fan of all the 'newspeak' that seems to keep spawning as the result of social media.

Just because someone doesn't care for that kind of language doesn't automatically make them an ignorant Daily Fail reader.

At the end of the day it's all just semantics.

It generally means "Don't question what I am saying" but with overtones of righteousness.

Oh I hate this. So smug and annoying.

Some interesting replies which have got me thinking about what truth actually even means, if it's coloured by belief and experience.

Still an irritating phrase though

[quote MintyCedric]@SkedaddIe

Honestly I'm not overseen on the term woke either.

One can be open-minded and liberal without being a fan of all the 'newspeak' that seems to keep spawning as the result of social media.

Just because someone doesn't care for that kind of language doesn't automatically make them an ignorant Daily Fail reader.

At the end of the day it's all just semantics.[/quote]
'Woke' has its origin in black vernacular.

It means awareness of important social issues.

It's offensive to me when it's used as a pejorative term.

I nearly started a thread saying just this the other day!

It basically means “my opinion/experience/interpretation/perspective” but calling it truth seems to be an attempt to avoid anyone arguing with it.
If someone says “this is my truth” and it gets queried, the implication is that you’re calling that person a liar. Which wouldn’t be the implication if you questioned someone’s “interpretation” of a situation.

@FridayNightAtTheBronze

Some interesting replies which have got me thinking about what truth actually even means, if it's coloured by belief and experience.

Still an irritating phrase though

You're about to go down a very very deep philosophical hole with that type of thinking.

So I think there can be an honesty in acknowledging that ‘one’s truth’ is not necessarily the same as ‘The truth’ but it’s the best one can do.

I disagree that that’s how it’s used though. To me it always reads as a get out, so that if anyone shows that what they’ve said is factually inaccurate they can come back with “I never said it was the truth, I said it was my truth.”

Saying ‘my truth’ is a passive aggressive way of adding weight to something. It means that the person ‘believes it to be true’ and if you disagree with them or question them about it then you’re actually attacking their ‘belief’ in the same way as if you’re criticising someone’s religious ‘beliefs’.

It is, of course, bullshit. And if anyone uses that phrase I immediately just think they’re lying anyway.

I actually quite like 'my truth' because it tacitly acknowledges that it may not be 'the' truth and that recollections may differ.... however I do suspect a lot of people don't realise that they are basically saying that their story is unreliable from the outset

yes, 'my version of events' doesn't sound quite as watertight as 'my truth'.