Truth

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?

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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.