GREATEST
ENEMY OF TRUTH
(5-6-08
by Carl A. Patton)
As
we allude to things of the unknown we look at heuristic. Here we find a
hypothesis that serves as a guide. It also gives direction in solving a problem
but is not considered proven. Does a heuristic approach seek to find out or
discover? Will this approach stimulate students and thinkers to search for
further answers for themselves? But can you bow to the world and find these
answers?
What
can we prove about Truth? Does it depend on who is seeking Truth? Meanwhile
that great genius of physics Albert Einstein said:
“Blind
respect for authority is the greatest enemy of Truth.”
Now
brethren let us think? Can we find other answers for anything that poses
questions for society? Can we clearly see the end of this question? What
authority?
I
passed interspersed the shadows and
cob-webs
of your mind. For I knew
the
standing predator. As an
antagonist
he came cloaked in
adversary
rags and reeked of a stale
odor
that laughed at things not
funny
as he tried to hide Truth.
Meanwhile
I saw authority in humankind
that
told exaggerated tales of the world
as
many bowed to kings, queens and
the
money barons. There was/is also many
other
vices as all things thought to be
good
would one day be bad.
Never
say never as to order and
the
campaign against confusion.
God
did not order confusion
however
man knew nothing of
the
infinite as he felt puffed up
in
his definable wisdom that was
finite.
So
the wise logically and without
hesitation
went outside the limits.
They
saw this as the avenue to
creative
thinking as no great thinker
could
stay within the box.
Authority
figures held their heads
not
in shame as they believed they
held
the keys to knowledge and
their
Truth was known, as the unknown
to
them was a lie, many slept with the
enemy.
During
these times there came the
independent
thinker who loved Truth.
He
also loved God as he knew more
than
once that God was at the center
of
Truth. Many of the early great
philosophers
of the west as they
were
also from the east also knew that
God
was the primary figure in Truth.
Meanwhile
we look back and see that
they
toyed and dallied with a “Methodology
For
Obtaining Truth” which goes through
God.
Carelessly the enemy of Truth believed
that
only what they can see is Truth.
I
hear and feel the truth seekers in the
field
and in the classroom. He looked
with
his eyes as did the slanderer but
the
vilifier saw little although he thought
he
saw much. But the Truth-seeker saw even
with
his heart. Thus he saw much and to some
the
unknown.
The
box as it was noted, closed tightly
around
the dogmatic authoritarians thinking-less.
He
saw no extenuating circumstances.
He
ceased to think as rote memory and
general
human behavior often controlled
his
every action.
All
the paintings he saw and painted
were
done in dull abstract colors and
drawings,
as no life came upon those
that
knew none of the colors of the
rainbow.
In God’s house the majority
did
not always rule.
The
box people often had no box cutters
as
they stood firm against new ideas.
The
heuristic people were heretics? They,
the
box-headed people banished all new thought
and
Truth was no priority. Censorship became a
part
of the indigenous box people as they stayed
at
home.
John
just looked at the box. The squares were the
sullen,
dull and mis-directed people. However many
were
lazy and content with all things that their supreme
power
told them. Who told them what?
His
mind carried hair, a hat and
ears
that seem to hold empty space
in-between.
John frowned as he
knew
that the head was not a
muscle
but it still needed cultivation.
The
box cutters now came up like a
snakes
head, spitting censuring venom and trying
to
cut the legs of the Truth-seekers.
They
also threw rocks at his head, however
he
stayed bowed in prayer and the rocks
landed
low and never high. Truth rested
beyond
the clouds, although right before
our
very eyes.
carlpatton@tds.net