#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

[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.

[talesofstorm]

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.

[strangebookseye]

The Path To Strange Books: Art Inventions From Mike Russell’s Archive Part 5

Hello Stranger. Soon everything will be faked, including you and me. Perhaps as lies become increasingly convincing and increasingly protected, more people will care about the truth. Here are a few more of the art inventions that I have made and exhibited over the years. See you in my books, Mike Russell Title: “Mask” 1997 (materials: masking tape and oil paint on wood): Title: “Nothing To…

[madewithonerib]

RE: I see this as the narrative to explain the increasing fragmenting of society & verbal attacks that arise from disagreements over the tiniest things.. let's just admit to it, ppl generally do not like others due to our selfish tendencies & to a degree GOD labels that as greed.

The other month I was shocked when I looked up that verse where JESUS tells of this rich man who says to himself how he can relax because he has torn down his old barn & built a monumental monstrosity to store his wealth.. to which JESUS scolded or warned him: "You fool! This very night your life is required of you, who then will inherit what you have worked so hard to accumulate?"

This is the shocker: HE was not only saying you idiot, your wealth is not for you to kick back & enjoy yourself, rather it was given to you as a test to see if you'd do the right thing & provide for those who have not. Essentially now that your ego has mis-spent your windfall for the year, now all your neighbours will come kill you. The ancients knew to be generous with what they have bc they knew full well the ups & downs of life; that they were all reliant on one another's generosity to see them through the years of famine to share in the feast of others, and vice versa. But in modern times, we assume we can hang on to what we have through all the technological advances & educational forums, we have done away with our fear of GOD & how HE levels out the playing field for the have-nots to survive.

Note: Full disclosure, I read one or two articles during the covid fiasco & the doctors in Italy said they had already noticed the asymtomatic influenza cases in their patients a full year prior. But out of fear, they didn't report it until China confirmed they had a new strain of influenza, so yeah I had to change the reference to reflect the truth, even if Italy is too chicken to own it officially.

[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?

[cryptidmickle]

shadow milk finding pv when he was healer cookie is so interesting to me, and full of drama

[breadstickz1]

OKAY my favorite is sage of truth I love sage of truth can he please come to me please eplease on my hands and knees ple

[0oheleth]

Life is not a problem to be solved ...

[boasamishipper]

helena eagan who grew up wanting for nothing but at the same time truly wanting nothing until she watched her innie receive the affection she spent her whole life trying to earn. helena eagan who stepped into her innie's life because she wanted to know what it felt like to be loved with no strings attached. helena eagan who tried so hard to be the woman her innie is - who crawled through a tunnel full of goat shit to help mark find his outie's wife, and tried to console irving before his trip to o&d, and laughed openly and freely with the refiners around the campfire on a snowy night - but in the end just couldn't pull it off. helly was never cruel. sometimes the poison drips through.

[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.