The Bloody Truth
Veritas. Truth.
A classic, and always argued, phrase in a single word. A dual concept of what is and what is not. An opposite falsehood lined with the silver lining of what is truly valuable and the pillar that holds up our dignity as persons.
Always in front of
us there is, it seems, a delicate veil that allows us to almost see
truth. Yet, hidden at the same time, truth is always teasing us in
the demure forms we see. From that which we most desire, and that from which we'll most express to desire, we'll see a truth.
There is an implied
duality in truth. There is a limitation to what we know as truth. If
something is a truth there is a limitation implied. The limitation is
how to define what is not. Truth is, in essence, a two faced creature. The Janus whose existence we cannot deny.
That is also the
key to creating truth, defining limitations. And, that is how a truth
can be created, by creating a limitation.
Create something as
a limitation, and a truth can be defined.
These days “to
define” is the operating mode, the way of making known, what is and
not a truth. Pontius
Pilate in a Christian narrative comments about truth; whether it was
an unchanging law and whether if all truths were the same. His points
made were both likely meant as dismissive. The angry mob who in
outrage screamed for justice at an offense against truth could not
consider any concept of impartial justice. All had to live or die by
that truth they'd defined. The push back against what is defined as
truth has become one of the histories of conflicts.
Truth
can be a truly bloody motive in war.
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