The Truth

We seek the truth. The truth shall set you free. We live in the truth.

These phrases have been around for a very long time but don’t seem to have had much effect on our society. Let’s see if we can track the way we’ve perceived the truth over time. If we begin our study back in the 1800s in what I like to call the “Bonanza” days, we could be very surprised.

Using Hoss and Little Joe as our roll models, we go with them into Virginia City in their wagon to get supplies for The Ponderosa. The wagon is analogous to our present-day pickup trucks or perhaps a bit bigger. They arrive at the general store and purchase very large bags of flour, wheat, corn, and sugar. Hopsing has requested some bigger soup kettles and other supplies, so they talk to the store owner about what is available.

Both parties tell the truth. The thought of telling lies never enters their minds. The counter help always tells the truth as this is all he knows. He wants his customers to get the products they need and feel good about their purchases.

Without thinking about it, the store needs their business, and The Ponderosa needs supplies, so the spoken words on both sides of the counter flow without any premeditation or aberration. When the boys arrive back home in their wagon, Hopsing helps unload the heavy bags and Ben Cartwright thanks them for their hard work.

Spirituality

In this example, life is pure because society is not reliant on individuals on television who say they use this or that product when they don’t. They are paid to lie. We know that everything in the modern world is based on money and that means the truth is secondary to business. They are paid to lie so they can get paid.

As such, advertisements assault us at every turn and in them, the truth takes a back seat, or no seat at all. Everyone knows these hollow individuals are generally lying but understand that’s just how life is, so they put up with the lies. So, money equals lies and lies equal money. We seem to be okay with that.

The Truth is Good for The Soul

The bottom line is that all this lying has an effect on us all. Gradually, we become immune to the lies that surround us all day-every day and some of us become pathological liars. Where is the leadership? We don’t want to hear the answer to that question, we just want money. Excessive and consistent lies are now a part of our everyday lives and often with little or no clear motives. People lie so often that they frequently get snared in their own entrapment and must then tell more lies to support the original ones. Some use lying as a sort of tool to reach a goal.

Doctors have been called “the best liars on earth,” because their idea of a medical practice is treating the symptoms and not the cause and they use pharmaceuticals to do this. Most of the pharmaceutical industry lies to the world to get more money. When I was a kid, there were no television ads telling us to ask our doctor if this or that drug is right for you. It would have been obscene and today, it is!

The planet seems to have squeezed every bit of truth out of the word leadership. Congress is a hopeless pit of lies and the word politician equates to deception. We have laws that state we cannot kill each other but lies start needless wars that kill everybody. Money again! Telling lies appears to be a lucrative endeavor here on Terra.

You Shall Watch and Listen to The News and Like It!

Enter the State News broadcasts. Don’t look for any semblance of honesty here. Dishonesty is defined as acting without honesty. Pathological liars lie for a living and prefer to regurgitate lies they think people want to hear. Why do you think all the podcasts have popped up all over the planet? Podcasts generally present the truth as they see it because they no longer have the stomach to watch the state media outlets. In this there is truth.

So, if we seek the truth, the truth shall set us free, and we live in the truth are to exist in our daily lives, we collectively avoid the television news like the plague.