Consequences

There doesn't seem to be any adverse consequences to living life on whatever terms one has decided to adopt for oneself. I suppose most just adopt the beliefs of their ancestors, living life basicly as their parents did without doubts or original thoughts; it worked for them, why rock the boat?

The name of my blog "Truth or Consequences" is mostly paying homage to my favorite game show as a kid. I remember, on one show, Bob Barker brought out this mat that was layed on the floor, and eggs would bounce off this thing without breaking. The game they played with it was pretty lame, but that mat was fascinating.

But, i am thinking about modern times when i say that there doesn't seem to be any adverse effects to deciding what we are going to believe and living by that, because Aztec priests used to practice human sacrifice, in case you missed Mel Gibson's Apocalypto. We now know the truth: human sacrifice is a waste of time;
i just wish Pres. W. Bush had known that....

I suspect that if we knew what the truth was, and all those questions about
life--it's meaning and where we're going in the end--were off the table, life would be less fatiguing. I think there would be fewer wars, and all the time spent preaching and arguing about the details of our "Truths" could be spent
accomplishing projects that could be useful for society....like that mat that you can bounce eggs off of.

Truth

One of the most interesting subjects concerning humanity, and it is uniquely a human concept; to all other animals, i presume, things are what they are and nothing else. When man evolved sound and words to accomodate thinking, truth was there to greet them, but then people could not satisfy their hunger for truth, so truth's brother was born: Truth, borne of man's arrogance and impatience to know the things beyond their science and the desire to know the unknowable.

Therefore, truth's brother is not the evil Lie, but the well meaning Belief, a.k.a. Faith. When man does not like what truth has to offer, they turn to Belief, who will tell them what they want to hear.

This, then, is my Belief and how i came to it; truth is all around us, some of us may cross paths with it on occasion, some not at all.... ever.