Cherish The Truth Is Born!

It hit me like a crazy bolt of lightning.

How awesomely different would the world be
if the TRUTH actually RULED?

To quote the line from the movie with
Jack Nicholson "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"

Well, actually, I think most people CAN
handle the truth, and that in fact the
truth will get people a lot farther.

However, it takes great GUTS to do this,
most people are too scared, for it means
that maybe their whole life they have
been doing things wrong, and now they
might have to change that...even though
every second they DON'T change, they
are just getting further and further
away from getting ANYWHERE meaningful.

Most of the time, lies do NOT help us.

If you wanted to get to a destination,
would it feel good to get a map that
made it seem simple, but actually led
to the WRONG destination?

Of course not, so for this basic reason,
I feel that the truth IS important and
in fact VITAL.

So the mission of this blog is to simply
spread as much USEFUL truth as possible.

I'll also take questions and comments
from anyone.

By the way, just because I believe in
TRUTH, doesn't mean that I am against
the use of our IMAGINATION, or against
things like art or anything like that.

In fact, these things can be used to
help express truth as well. Of course,
they can also be used to get emotions
going and that can be used to manipulate
people's minds, but such is the responsibility
of an artist.

So just like anything else, you have
responsible artists and irrresponsible ones.

The first lie I'd like to tackle is the
lie or rather the lies, that we tell
OURSELVES.

So for example, let's say we are emotionally
involved in a relationship, and then we
break up with someone, we may end up using
cognitive dissonance (a fancy term for
reverse rationalization) to convince
ourselves that we were the ones who
are right.

We will look for selective evidence to
prove our point to ourselves and thus
never grow as a human being.

Al Capone rationalized to himself that he
was a great guy because he sponsored some
soup kitchens.

Adolf Hitler probably felt he was a
great guy too.

Joseph Stalin probably thought he was
doing important work.

Emotions are what cause us to basically
look for ONLY the evidence that backs up
what we WANT to believe, and to totally
ignore evidence that would lead to us
having to CHANGE our ways.