I feel a little trite and immodest saying that I have been searching for the truth all my life but let me explain. When I was in high school and college so much of the world didn't make sense. My brother went off to a war in Vietnam that no one could explain except that it had something to do with fighting Communism. I remember reading a thin book that tied to explain communism and it didn't make sense to me. This could be called an existential angst, one of my favorite books was Catcher in the Rye. (I must reread that.) Mainly though it was that I never seem to be able to sense of why the world is the way it is. I figured there was some kind someone must understand it so I read what I could. I think I had a similar deep down longing for spiritual truth also. I did not go for an all out search but I checked out each new "learning" with this in the back of my mind. In my college introductory psychology class, I remember that in class the professor did some kind of simple test and I came out - "I'm not OK, You're OK." The most common position according to Wikipedia since as children we see that adults are large, strong and competent and that we are little, weak and often make mistakes.
I no longer think there is Truth with a Capital T though I think there is much truth that is helpful if we know and try to follow it. Civilization is not only how we have figured out how to live with each other but We each do are best in trying to make it through life.
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