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The Truth

Do you tell the truth? Have you been told the truth? Do you care to know the truth? Are you scared of the truth? What is the truth?

By definition truth means: a fact that has been verified; a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like

I believe if you say that you are a truthful person then you speak the truth as you know it or perceive to know it. In many cases I don’t feel that we actually go through the process of verifying the truth for ourselves. We learn things from people that we trust to tell us how things are and have come to be. But what if the very people that we have entrusted with this position of tutelage were lied to in the first place. Hmmm. That is why I feel that it is everyone’s duty to find out the truth for themselves instead of just settling for what you’ve been told.

Consider this…they all lie to you: your friends, your family, the government, churches, Mosques, preachers, Rabbis, the government, cousins, teachers, songs, rappers, TV, movies, magazines, newspapers, wives, husbands, oh and did I say “the government?” oh and of course… we lie to ourselves. So where can we find the truth?

Woman: Half of what I have learned is a complete and utter lie. The other half is just a well constructed lie.

Man: Where’s the truth?

Woman: Somewhere hidden in the lies.

NEIM, “Sins of the Father”

That is an excerpt from my screenplay by the way. Don’t get me wrong… I’m not a pessimist nor am I trying to be pessimistic, I am just trying to open eyes that have been shut for so long. Many of you who are reading this may attest to know and speak the truth at all (or most) times. I believe it is the few and not many that truly seek out the truth. What do I mean?

Many people do not care to know the truth. You know the old adage, “Ignorance is Bliss.” Some people don’t care why things are or how they got that way. We are more concerned with the smaller picture, vis a vis ourselves. We still eat Chicken McNuggets even though there’s no chicken. We still use oil at an alarming rate even though it destroys the environment and its running out. Who gives a shit if children die every day for the diamonds that we have come to love and cherish. “Bling Bling” Not enough people sought the truth before we planned to go to war with Iraq. Most people just accepted what the government told us (scare tactics) to be true. Don’t even get me started on 9/11 (read my 9/11 blog).

We have a history of not telling the truth, especially in this country. Thanks giving is coming up. I wonder did the Pilgrims tell the Native Americans that they planned to give them small pox, rape their women, kill their men and ultimately decimate an entire race of people. Were ex-slaves told the truth when they were offered 40 acres and a mule for over two-hundred years of slavery (1640-1865)? What was the reason for the British to go into China in the late 1800’s? The British seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium. The British twice sent the Royal Navy to enforce opium addiction on China, in order to open up China for looting. It was common knowledge before 1921, that the British Empire was the world’s leading drug trafficker in the 19th century. I wonder who’s the leading trafficker now? Hint: its a 3 letter anagram. Even further back people of the time (middle ages) came to accept the depiction of Heaven and Hell from a man named Dante Alighieri (Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso). Dante was a gifted writer who gave Christians their take on demons, devils, ghosts, angels, etc. I wonder what people would believe if J. R. R. Tolkien(author of The Lord of the Rings) was around at that time and we took his literary fiction to be truth. I could go on and on how there is a dishonesty in the entire history of man, but do you really care? Ignorance is in our history as well.

Some people know the ugly truths of this world but choose to ignore them. Hence ignorance. Some do it out of fear. No all people are afraid to tell the truth no matter the consequences. i.e. Martin Luther King Jr., Che Guavarra, Malcolm X, Ghandi, Bob Marley, John F Kennedy, just to name a few. Of Course we know what happened to most of that short list of heroes. Those that are in power don’t want you to know the truth because it would expose them. They try and give you the illusion of choice to keep you in line. It has always been that way since the dawn of time. No one can make you want to know the truth, you have to decide that for yourself. If more people sought out the truth then they would become knowledgeable; and we all know that phrase “knowledge is power”. So don’t be afraid to seek out the truth and challenge these lies that are clouding our vision like the smoke from a burning building. Seek truth and empower yourself or just take the “blissful” way out. The choice is yours.

-NEIM

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