What do we with Truth
There is so
much more to know
And so little time
There is so much to consider
Even less time.
Inundated with information from all directions
How to sort it out
What is important —and what isn’t
What
Do we need to know
And what is propaganda
It’s difficult to determine
Is the new information better than the old because
It is new?
Is the old tried and true
Because it is old?
How do we discern?
Educators teach what they are told.
To pass the standardized tests
Standardized for whose sake, the students or the culture
That needs people who will not rebel, dispute, or challenge
What they want us to know
The Internet provides some alternatives.
But what’s true about the new?
All of it
Some of it
None of it?
What is it to take in information?
Some are staunch in their belief in their information
I heard a podcast — they say … but what makes that more credible than
I read a book
Are facts, facts,
Have they been verified, and who does the verification?
This gets us back to what is truth.
Truth for the immediate, which can change quickly
If we want it to or because
It acts like a chameleon
Changing colors depending on the surroundings?
Or is it long-term being what has been established by past generations
It can be a rock that we don’t want to be moved and
drop anchor to be stable no matter what
The winds of change may blow our way.
What is truth?
It’s been a question posed to us for a long time
How do we discern the truth?
Some have been willing to die
For their truth or
force others to believe their truth or
Be willing to kill others who
They didn’t see the truth the way they do.
Others see truth as an ever-changing sky
with new clouds of information changing
the canvas of the flat world with puffy, simple truths,
others only see dark, ominous, frightening truth
But the question still is before us
What is truth?
What is the correction information to:
Believe
Accept
Know?
The only way is to look within. What is suitable for my journey through life?
What is my inner voice telling me?
It may contradict what others are telling me
It may contradict the news media and the internet
It may contradict the podcast
It may contradict the Doctor.
There is so much to know.
And even less time
But what we need to know is what is being spoken to us
From within
If we take the time to hear it,
Understand it and
To live it.
