»How do we Discern What is Truth and What is Deception?«

• Talk Genjo Marinello Roshi
• Panel Discussion with Gert Scobel & Thomas Christaller

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Genjo Marinello Roshi, Abt des Zen-Klosters Chobo-ji ist zu Gast im Zentrum für Bewegung & Lebenskunst mit dem Vortrag: »How do we Discern What is Truth and What is Deception?«

• Anschließend Podiumsdiskussion: Genjo Marinello, Gert Scobel & Thomas Christaller

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Short abstract:

Maybe the question is not so much “what is true”but “what is reliable” or “what carries me through”. And is that which is my “true basis” and home, the trustworth ground for all the coping exercises I am involved, also really “true”? Or am I just following an illusion?

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(Very) Long abstract:

When Guttenberg invented the printing machine the Bible was the first product of it. But very soon other stuff was printed. At this time at least in Germany farmers were very poor and hold often like slaves by aristocrats and rich people. There were some minor uproars which were all repressed by military forces. The farmers were many but in these days without our communication means it was very difficult to organize a powerful resistance movement against this system. But somebody had a brilliant idea: Let the printing press produce flyers which were spread over the villages, posted at trees or walls. By this it was possible to disseminate information beside official speeches in churches or official publications. There was no control of what was said on these posters, no author was named.

At the same time we have Martin Luther who triggered a different revolution with regard to religion. Very soon this also was directed against the rulers in the Catholic church as well as rulers in the aristocracy. This was also a major topic of flyers in these days. It was highly instrumental to organize the resistance on different issues and led to the so-called „Bauernkriege“ culminating in 1524 to a major revolutionary movement and battles.

Similar happened with the religious topic which ended in creating a new Christian religion, namely „Protestantismus“ where the word „protest“ is inherently a part of its name. Of course, most of the farmers and lay people were unable to verify what was published by these posters. But they were used to take written texts as trustworthy and what it says taken as truth. The technology was brand new and there were no rules or meaningful laws to ensure that what was disseminated by printed papaer must fulfill certain criteria. Today we have a similar situation with regard to media technologies and in many aspects an unrestricted use of it. While over the centuries the profession of journalists evolved with a specific understanding how get, use, and present information and laws to ensure „freedom of speech“ similar rules and laws for so-called Social Media are in their infancy. We see the same effects as in the beginning of the 16th century. People have to figure out themselves if they trust a post on e.g. Twitter/X or not.

Again the use of these technologies using text, pictures, and videos trigger people to believe the content if it fits in some way to their individual world view. If somebody claims something as a fact s/he has not to give proof of it or proof it in a way that the claim can be questioned. This is different from science where usually an article is reviewed before it is accepted to be published in a scientific journal or conference proceedings. A recent study shows that the less educated a person is the less s/he trusts science. Which means that less educated people are susceptible to fake news, lies, and unproven statements.Why is this important to understand? Because we humans do have a tendency to join others who have a similar or identical world view as we do have. And excluding all other people up to the point that we deny that those other ones are humans. That we have to get rid of them. Ensure that those people will never get the opportunity to gain political power. What does it mean if we deny our fellow human beings their human nature? It leads to slavery, war, oppression of differing opinions from ours. Which allows us to treat them in a non-human way. The human rights aren’t any longer applicable.We are today as populations in a very similar dilemma as the German farmers in the Middle Ages. We have to believe what we think is right and correct. We can’t trust a tweet or post blindly. What we do is what those farmers did. We believe those who claim that they are fighting for our rights against an abstract often invisible political, commercial power, the so-called elites. And we disbelieve the publications of the elites. One way out of this dilemma is to refuse all these media including the traditional press (which often is regarded as manipulated by the elites). But then how can you make up your mind e.g. to vote for this person and that one in a political election. Or decide which medical treatment can be trusted. Or how to trust your neighbours if they don’t belong to your social group.This will be elaborated in the talk given by Genjo Marinello and discussed after that by him, Gert Scobel and Thomas Christaller leading the discussion.