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TRUTH
Intro
"What is
Truth?"
I once told the truth.
It was the only time I wasn't believed.
Tumbleweed
What is truth? This
profound question was asked by Pilot at the most profound moment in
history.
And
we have yet to find an answer that satisfies everyone.
Truth
is apparently indistinct, a dense fog that blurs our vision and appears
different to each person, and changes moment to moment.
What
is true today, was a lie yesterday, and will be again tomorrow. What is
worshiped in one culture, is dismissed as foolishness in another.
In
spite of this, let us see what the Sages have revealed to us in time
past.
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This
by Sophocles leaves one to ponder:
"How
dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!"
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George
Crabbe has this insightful comment:
"Habit
with him was all the test of truth, It must be right: I've done it from
my youth."
*
This
from Wendell Phillips gives pause to think:
"Truth
is forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods,
the blood, the disposition of the spectator."
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James
Russell Lowell expresses it in poem:
"Truth
forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne --
"Yet
that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown,
"Standeth
God within the shadow, keeping watch over His own."
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Think
on this one from Charles Peirce:
"Every
man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would
not ask any questions."
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Now
let us see if our Liars Club has anything to say about Truth.
(Rare
Commodity)
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