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you can’t handle the truth!

truth isnt a big deal. truth can be handled. a little kid saying that yes i did break your favorite toy is the truth. the president admitting he is wrong thats the truth. Everyone can handle the truth the thing is we make up lies to make the world seem more interersting but everyone knows the truth in there heart

well sure its hard to deal with somethings your told but if i was kidnapped when i was two and just found out i would look back and think well i cant change what happened and i think i lived heck of a life like this and if i lernt that i had cancer and they said i only had a week to live i would be upset at first and then i’d think bout how my aunt was told that and she lived 4 years. I live for the moment I make the best of everything, Im just very optimistic

I think we are responsive to the truth as small children, but we are encouraged to lie over and over again by our parents (as they were by theirs). Did you ever say something to someone, and have your mother be angry with you for saying the truth? I know I have, I remember it. We discover ’shades’ of the truth, and we also discover how much of it the people around us want to hear. I knew, for example, I could tell my aunt Delores ANYTHING, and she wouldn’t bat an eye. Probably why I liked her so much.
I also learned how to be completly full of sh#$ with having 2 addictions in my life. I could convince my self that what i was doing was normal- or that anyone would do these things if they had my life. That level of dishonesty really required chemicals to sustain it.
As an adult, I have had to face some scary and painful truths about myself, and continue to. Does that mean I have no dishonesty in my life? NOPE. I am pretty sure that after living a whole lifetime of lies, I still am clinging to some. But as I am ready to let them go, they fall away. It’s usually painful again, but necessary. One of my biggest most recent dishonesties that I became aware of was that I color myself when I speak about me, to avoid harsh critism or judgment. I would shade my side of things, to make it look favorable toward me. Have I stopped doing it? No. But I’m aware of it, and trying.
I’m not sure who lied to you, or who you tried to tell the truth too and it backfired, but I’ve also learned that I’m only responsible for my own truths. It’s really easy to see where others are lying to themselves, but it’s not up to me to ram it down their throats. It has never worked on me to have that done, so it’s just cruelty to do that to another. I can say it if asked, but I won’t go around just looking for others faults. Then I know for sure I’m avoiding lookig at my own.

truth obtained by spiritual feelings is good to guide the soul but bad to determine the phyiscal universe.

like jesus sent you to save me is a good kind of truth,
jesus warms my heart, good truth
jesus calms me down, good stuff

but

jesus made this whole universe in its infinite expanse, just for us =not so good
because scientists make cutting observations about the world, they must be
arrogant to assume they can know the mysteries of god’s creation = not so good

I don’t feel very smart today so I’ll just tell you as simple as I can.
Truth is hard to take because when truth is taken for what it is…people have to take responsability for whatever the situation is asking them for, and its hard.
So its easyer to lie and not make the effors.

I am still trying to decide exactly what is the truth. I think it is that which exists or that which is right. So to know the whole truth, one has to know… everything. And obviously one can’t know everything. I have a theory about knowledge. It is like a pyramyd(sp?). At the base you have things that can be observed with our senses. Things that can be seen, touched, felt, heard, etc. It is impossible for one person to know everything on this level, but a complete database might be collected. Then you get to things that cannot be experienced directly, but may be observed. Things that are microscopic and macroscopic. Things that can’t be seen with the naked eye. In all honestly, I’ve never seen an atom with my own eye. Does that mean it does not exist? No. It means that one man has a limited knowledge of these things. A complete database would be very difficult to create. Then you have ideas. Things that are more subjective. A complete database of ideas would be impossible because ideas are formed from/about the two preceding types of knowledge, which we don’t know everything about. Then I create a higher rank: deities and philosophies. This could also be refered to as the Truth. It is impossible to fully understand and fathom this without luck or a savior. So can anyone learn the full truth? No. The knowledge could be given them, but only the strongest could handle it. And again, don’t take this as the full truth. Because I am sure I am forgetting something or missing something here.

People fear the truth, because they don’t know what to do about it. It’s easier to lie and look the other way then it is to act upon something. It’s just the way the human mind works i suppose.

an irrational belief system must always do alot of legwork to fight truth; truth seeps in from all kinds of places. Say we use water as a
metaphor for truth, then you can see that a whole system of leaky pipes as an irrtational belief system requires alot of work to hold everything together.

Once you create a false world, anything that intrudes into this fantasy world has to be attacked, otherwise the whole thing falls apart.

Religion anyone?

blah blah blah and religion, I’ll wait for the day when you say something clear/understandable to the people who are reading and NOT mention religion in whatever the post is talking about. That would make my day.

yeah, i offered up religion as a possible irrational belief system. its up to you if you want to place it there. But everything I said about irrational belief systems still holds, regardless if you place religion in or outside of that. i.e. my post is independent of your or my opinion of religion, at large, since I was talking about irrational beliefs and the subject is why the world doesn’t love truth. thanks for not reading carefully

no problem, glad to actually.