#What is Truth

[betweenthetimeandsound]

I drink my soup, floating with tofu and cabbage. Is this miso? I don't taste the soybean.

You stare at me and wait for the indictment. How would I know better? My hair falls like wheat;

without it, I'm left in an abandoned state against a concrete sky, with a flimsy lightbulb hanging on.

Why are you still watching? I'm not a performance piece; I just enjoy a luxury.

You thread your hand between prayer beads, but you want to interrogate me, time and time again.

"What is truth?" You corner me and play the judge. How would I know--I'm only left with words! --Elda Mengisto

[infinitysisters]

“For that same reason, human science (knowledge) cannot discover God; for human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry-web of God's science, works with its back to him, and is always leaving him--his intent, that is, his perfected work--behind it, always going farther and farther away from the point where his work culminates in 👉🏼revelation.👈🏼

Doubtless it thus makes some small intellectual approach to him, but at best it can come only to his back; science will never find the face of God; while those who would reach his heart, those who, like Dante, are returning thither where they are, will find also the spring-head of his science.

‪𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝, 𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝; 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞.‬

It discovers a little of the way God walks to his ends, but in so doing it forgets and leaves the end itself behind…the very process of his work is such a leaving of God's ends behind. It is a following back of his footsteps, too often 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘴.

To rise from the perfected work is the swifter and loftier ascent. If the man could find out why God worked so, then he would be discovering God; but even then he would not be discovering the best and the deepest of God; for his means cannot be so great as his ends.”

— George MacDonald

Unspoken Sermons, 1867

[quietflorilegium]

“Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. Facts are no more solid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are. But both are sensitive.”

Genly Ai, Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Left Hand of Darkness"

[chasedbybuildings]

I have a mp3 of this, which I converted from a tape recording made from the vinyl in 1994. The cover for that LP was completely different from the example shown in this video. This is because all of the 'What Is Truth?' album sleeves were handmade, and thus no two were alike. IIRC these were distributed by Schwa, who in the 90s produced various ufo-related merchandise.

This particular track, from what I can remember of the sleeve notes, was inspired by the story of a woman on her deathbed in an American hospital who saw the whole of human history played on the wall opposite her.

[marionsinspirations]

I think you should choose to believe and enjoy what your lover tells you. If they're lying, that's their problem, not yours.

My aunt

[writingthroughthenight]

At this point, I wonder if I've been wrong about what I thought was indubitably right...

[aspiringbelle]

Here is one of my favorite Johnny Cash songs. He's not on the side of the right-wing oldsters.

The kids on TikTok think that just because he was a classic country singer, Johnny Cash was conservative??? My babies he covered a Nine Inch Nails song in his seventies.

Classic country singers (the majority of which came from poor roots) were always talking about how much The Man sucked because they were taking money from poor rural folk. You’re gonna tell me that’s conservative?? Get outta here.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[madewithonerib]

I think GOD is hilarious, HE usually speaks through Keller & it's so funny how Tim shares about his own personal foibles. And how it just ties with my experiences & the stupid things I've just said in the course of the day or week: Cross: The Way to Become Yourself

[kurtbennett]

One Less god Than You?

God Running is a place for anyone who wants to (or even anyone who wants to want to) love Jesus more deeply, follow Jesus more closely, and love people the way Jesus wants us to. Continue reading One Less god Than You?

[0oheleth]

Life is not a problem to be solved ...

[letoiididnothingwrong]

Modern net discourse is defining misinformation as shit that you don't believe regardless of evidence.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

[quietflorilegium]

“The knowledge of truth is only a shape in the mind.”

The Lady in Green, Elizabeth Marie Pope, "The Perilous Gard"

[akanemnon]

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[eveningrainstorm]

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