Kevin Solway wrote:
> I doubt very much whether anyone on this list 
> has actually read Kierkegaard,
> or the New Testament,
> despite this being a Kierkegaard list.

Anthony replied:
> When I read Shakespeare I think, Ah the Truth.
> When I read William S. Burroughs, Oh the Ugly Truth.
> Kierkegaard, Ho the Tragi-comic Truth. And so forth.
> Truth with a T comes in as many sizes as shirts of the same letter.
> Upon having learned the Truth, how quickly one forgets,
> There--there--this time I've got it!

Walter Lowrie translates Kierkegaard as having written:

"... for one may have known a thing many times and acknowledged it,
one may have willed a thing many times and attempted it,
and yet it is only by the deep inward movements,
only by the indescribable emotions of the heart,
that for the first time you are convinced
that what you have known belongs to you,
that no power can take it from you;
for only the truth which edifies is truth for you."
                      Either/Or II, 294

According to Kierkegaard in the Concluding Unscientific
Postscript, "Subjectivity is truth".
It follows that when a man reads the Old Testament
and discovers some truth, and then discovers some truth
in the New Testament, in Shakespeare, in Pascal,
in Kierkegaard, these truths will be the same truth
or facets of the same truth, not because the various authors
conspired in metaphysical collusion to enunciate a single truth,
but because each truth was apprehended by the same individual.
It was because in each instance the truth was truth for him,
that he recognized it as such and that it coincided with the
truth of every other instance.

But if the truths appear as different or even contradictory,
the fault is not in all of the authors or in any of them,
but only in the reader who, in the words of Kierkegaard-Lowrie,
has dulled his spirit "with half wishes and half thoughts,"
In some instances, the complaint that there is no truth is a
dialectical prologue to the search for truth; in other instances,
it is an histrionic exhibition of the indolence and indifference
of the complainer. "Judge not, that ye be not judged."

                               Ernst Meyer