Relativism

Relativism is the idea that some element or aspect of experience or culture is relative to, i.e., dependent on, some other element or aspect. Some relativists claim that humans can understand and evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of their historical or cultural context. The term often refers to truth relativism, which is the doctrine that there are no absolute truths, i.e., that truth is always relative to some particular frame of reference, such as a language or a culture.

I know your probably asking…”why did she just give me the definition of relativism?” I have a point, really. Yesterday I read a post on Brandi’s blog about her experience with a new community group and how they mixed young college kids with “older” married couples. she made a point that college kids don’t want to mix with married people…not beacuse they are married but because they are “older” –relatively speaking. This got me thinking a little bit. I am 26 years old, I’ll be 27 in 3 months. To me that’s not old–ya it’s older, but it’s not old. But when I was 19 and in college a 27 year old was old. In my 19 year old mind being 8 years older was a huge difference and when I become 26-27 I will be old. It’s all about relativity peeps because now I’m thinking, I’m not old, old is –now don’t get offended, I’m using this as an illustration 😉 — the 40 year old, I mean I’m mid life–half of my life is over! But when I’m 40 years old, I’ll probably be thinking, I’m not old, I still have 1/2 my life left to live. There is a huge difference in the way you view things and they perspective you have. Of course being a little older and wiser helps too — haha

So there you have it, my thoughts on relativism! I’m sure you enjoyed it.