It’s easy to define
honesty and easy to define truth and sometimes difficult to distinguish between
them. Stuff is a lot harder to catch
ahold of as most often it will contain components of the other two active
nouns. Easy differentiation between honesty
and truth can easily be determined. Honesty
is simply those things that one sincerely believes in, while truth is based
solely on those things that can be factually proven. Stuff, on the other hand is harder to trap in
any sort of specific definition. Stuff
can be part of an actual belief and will most generally contain some smidgen of
truth. The truth portion is included and
serves the purpose of one thing, to make it credible. We see all three of these things on a daily
basis. Some are obvious, some are not.
One thing you can be positive about and that is stuff is going to be
hidden, insidiously, inside statements containing a bit of the truth item. Sometimes this occurs honestly.
The use of
propaganda is nothing new. Human beings
have used this pretty much since the beginning of time. I can even see biblical inference to that as
far back as Cain when he threw the misdirected curve “am I my brother’s keeper”?
History has illuminated propaganda’s use
of stuff during wartime, sometimes for good results sometimes for ill. Our
society is being greatly affected by this practice, some of us are aware of it
coming from every direction and the effectiveness of it is apparent. The strength brought to our nation for the
last two and one half centuries is that of a strong cable formed of innumerable
individual strands. United we stand has
been more than just a motto it has been a glue that has helped our nation
become one of the strongest, most inventive, most generous and free of any nation
throughout history. Our national unity,
the cable, is and has been taken apart a strand at a time. The methodical erosion, seductively employed
by political factions and ideologies to separate us into easily swayed groups,
has been hastened by news media, educators, zealots and the inherent laziness of
those who honestly accept stuff without truth.
For the
majority of us, the news media has been our source of gathering data. Unfortunately, this source is no longer
reliable as a provider of truth. We can
no longer base decisions on what we read or what we hear as being factual and
complete. We are led to believe, by a form
of mass manipulation, by conspiracy theories, the stuff behind agenda as being
honest and true. We need to start
thinking for ourselves. We need to examine those things which we honestly believe
to be true. We need to follow through in
order to find truth, follow that with honest logic and we need to take the time
to get it right. We need to ask: “what
is the underlying agenda to what we are being led to believe and does it pass
the smell test?” We also need to be
honest with ourselves. Asking: “what is
my own personal agenda?” How much truth or how much stuff is in my honesty? Finally, what is the possible motivation or
agenda behind that which we are being asked to believe?
There are so
many points of dissention bombarding us on a daily basis it would be really
difficult to pinpoint what is most important to us as individuals. Without a doubt, somethings are at a critical
mass in each of our individual list of topics.
Thanks to the ease of disbursing stuff, we seem to be at each other’s
throats. It is increasingly simple to
create a state of mass dissatisfaction inside a population in pain due to a
large number of causes. Most of us are
affected and influenced emotionally by terrorism, unemployment and those things
we deem as unfair to ourselves and or others.
We all are aware of what the other guy should do to make things better. We
all know what he has done to put us in those terrible situations. We of course stand alone, blameless in our “honest”
assessment of reality. If you or anyone
else presents something to you on a topic in the sake of your own honesty, put
it through the sifter of truth.
We are witness
to the results of an anger based on partial truths, on discoloration of fact
and the opportunistic advancement of agendas that are dangerous to all of
us. How much anger will it take to give
anarchy the home field advantage? If you
are to believe that law enforcement has an agenda of causing harm to you, your
neighborhood, your race or your religion, find the facts and the truth that
supports your beliefs. If you believe
that a war being declared on law enforcement is justified, that physical
confrontation and the use of violence are justified, it’s time to check out
your moral compass. If you believe that
the NBP movement’s involvement is a positive part of the Black Lives Matter
movement, you need to have a look at the real agenda and approaches used by the
New Black Panther group. If you think
anti-white, anti-police rhetoric is not agenda driven, an agenda of making some
self-promoting demagogue appear relevant, you need a dose of logic. You should be looking at the historical, not
just to see what has happened in the past, but to the motivations behind those
shoveling stuff in your direction. Ask
yourself, what do they want, what are they willing to do to get it, is what
they are really after good for me and my family?
Police are
not all perfect, our nation is not perfect and neither you nor I are perfect. The majority of our society wants what is best,
not just for ourselves but for our neighbors.
One of the Judeo-Christian precepts is that we love our neighbor as
ourselves. One of the parables used to
clarify that command was that of the “good Samaritan”. In this parable the Samaritan sought out and
provided the means to heal a Jewish traveler after he had been beaten by
thieves. In historical context, Jews and
Samaritans did not like each other and both nations acted out prejudicially. Sound familiar? Who is your neighbor, I ask
that he have no color, and as for race we are all the same, human.
God bless our
country and our people and please heal our nation. Pray for our country.
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