#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

[tomicscomics]

06/10/2022

One's choice of sole ought not to condemn their immortal soul.

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: In this Bible story, Jesus speaks to His disciples about how He'll have to leave them soon, but He promises to send the Holy Spirit to share the truths He cannot share now.  In this cartoon, when Jesus says there are some truths He can't reveal because the disciples can't bear them yet, Peter acts incredulous that any truths could be unbearable.  We then cut immediately to the Holy Spirit giving a relatively minor truth about how one's choice of footwear -- even if a mortal sin in fashion -- does not condemn one's eternal soul.  Peter, as Jesus predicted, finds himself ill prepared to receive this truth, for he holds such things in serious regard.

[infinitysisters]

“For that same reason, human science (knowledge) cannot discover God; for human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry-web of God's science, works with its back to him, and is always leaving him--his intent, that is, his perfected work--behind it, always going farther and farther away from the point where his work culminates in 👉🏼revelation.👈🏼

Doubtless it thus makes some small intellectual approach to him, but at best it can come only to his back; science will never find the face of God; while those who would reach his heart, those who, like Dante, are returning thither where they are, will find also the spring-head of his science.

‪𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝, 𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝; 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞.‬

It discovers a little of the way God walks to his ends, but in so doing it forgets and leaves the end itself behind…the very process of his work is such a leaving of God's ends behind. It is a following back of his footsteps, too often 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘴.

To rise from the perfected work is the swifter and loftier ascent. If the man could find out why God worked so, then he would be discovering God; but even then he would not be discovering the best and the deepest of God; for his means cannot be so great as his ends.”

— George MacDonald

Unspoken Sermons, 1867

[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.

[marionsinspirations]

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

[ohblahdo]

I’ve seen it repeated a lot that George was the one who didn’t want to do Anthology and that he only finally agreed because he needed the money, but I was listening to the unofficial audio version that has extra interview clips spliced in, and there are a couple of George expressing enthusiasm for the project in the late 80s or early 90s and complaining that it was Yoko who wouldn’t let them release it because she wanted to do her own version - followed by a snarky remark about how in Yoko’s version of the Beatles’ story, the Beatles wouldn’t be in it much. I guess it’s just funny that even for things that seem fairly straightforward, there’s always another perspective.

[smitethestate]

Hello Tumblr leftist Twitter has become unbearable again.

[djoswiftie]

I know this shit is probably fake as fuck but Joe in the MCU? Lol help

[crymeariveronceagain]

random writing tips

honestly just judge fictional characters

i mean this

like what are they gonna do, yell at you?

judge every single one of their actions. was it good? was it bad? was it what you would have done? was it necessary? did it succeed?

look at everything a fictional character does, every choice they make, take a step back and be able to say whether or not it was good.

find the truth, and find the real truth, the outstanding truth, even if it's only within the confines of the fictional world. find out which way is up and which way is down. look your fictional character in the eyes and ask whether or not their actions were good.

literally, this will make you a better writer. i don't know how to explain it, beyond this.

we exist in a world where truth exists. there is objective truth. like, gravity pulls you down. we breathe oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, which the trees breathe and exhale in reverse order.

To write well, you need to know that there is a truth, and you need to apply it to fiction.

Why, you ask, since fiction isn't even real?

because we are real, dearest writer.

You are real. I am real.

We exist within reality, and so too does your story, in a sense. It exists in the reality of words, of what is written.

So look at a book, maybe your favorite, maybe your least favorite, look at an action and think to yourself whether it is right or wrong.

Find out why it is right or wrong.

Like, literally.

This is how you become a better writer, and even a better person. Chase down the objective truth of the reality you live in. Find what is set and stone and sit on the rocks and breathe the air there. It may be sharper, but it's clearer.

As soon as you see the world as things that are true and untrue, writing gets easier. If you can point to a character you've written and say "Good choice," that's good. If you can point to a character who burned down a building and say, "That was not good," that's a sign of you knowing what's going on. It's a sign you see the world from the big picture.

And it's how writers need to see reality.

To be a good writer, just start judging every single fictional character you can get your hands on. Look at their actions.

Figure out if what they did was good or bad, and tell me why they did the bad things anyway, tell me why they did the good things anyway, tell me why the bad characters had good motives, tell me why the good characters did bad things for good motives.

This is how you solve the puzzle.

And this is how you learn how to write people, not just characters.

[byjinni]

"Seek those in search of Illumination, but shun those who claim to have it. Nobody can claim Illumination with so many mysteries left unresolved or simply smothered in further imaginary mysteries. Much of what passes for Illuminism seeks not to unravel real mysteries but merely to impose belief structures upon existing ignorance. All religions have ignorance masquerading as mystery at their cores."

-Peter J. Carroll, The Octavo

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[sing-you-fools]

me: this is a background character who's in one scene, has two lines, and is completely irrelevant to the rest of the story. i am going to stop obsessing over what to name him and use the random name generator on behindthename.com. i am going to accept the first thing it gives me and move the fuck on.

behindthename.com:

[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.

[quietflorilegium]

“The knowledge of truth is only a shape in the mind.”

The Lady in Green, Elizabeth Marie Pope, "The Perilous Gard"

[writingthroughthenight]

At this point, I wonder if I've been wrong about what I thought was indubitably right...