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Yeah, but can you reliably discern garbage that better fits your narrative than truth does? What good is a truth set free in an ocean of lies and half-truths? T

Yeah, but can you reliably discern garbage that better fits your narrative than truth does? What good is a truth set free in an ocean of lies and half-truths? The truth isn't Good or Just, it just kinda awkwardly IS. If you pursue those NARRATIVES of "Good" and "Just" that have been woven for you, you will find truth only by luck.

optceramic 6y ago
> The truth isn't Good or Just, it just kinda awkwardly IS. To be more specific, it's the truth without a God that "just kinda awkwardly is". It's the absolute truth (which is to say the truth with God actually in the picture) that's without any shadow of a doubt "good and just". The Greek word "LOGOS" provides us with a fantastic description of this idea: > Logos is a term in Western philosophy, psychology, rhetoric, and religion derived from a Greek word variously meaning "ground", "plea", "opinion", "expectation", "word", "speech", "account", "reason", "proportion", and "discourse". It's perfectly commensurate with the bible to say that God is truth, logic, reason, speech, order, logos, and that he is good (i.e. not evil). > In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. > John 1:1-4 We also happen to have free will though (in addition to our sinful, limited human natures), and so he sometimes allows evil to befall us for our own good... Catholic scholar E. Michael Jones has some extremely prescient insights on the "Narrative Collapse" that's currently occurring, and how God can use it all to work for good. :') > The Coronavirus and the Culture War - E. Michael Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pKxa_5dIfY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pKxa_5dIfY > Logos Rising: A History of Ultimate Reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTfBPw6M5c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTfBPw6M5c > E. Michael Jones - The History of Logos and the Logos of History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cWZ_6myL8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cWZ_6myL8
- blamestross 6y ago
  It seems a some hilarious irony to attempt to use religious arguments in a discussion about not using a narrative provided for you.
lookdangerous 6y ago
In a sense I agree with your point as I read it. I think that pursuing the cultural ethic/narrative you may meet bits and pieces of the truth. But you only meet the truth itself if you pursue it, and it is not always easy to tell the truth apart from what you wish to be the truth.

optceramic 6y ago

> The truth isn't Good or Just, it just kinda awkwardly IS. To be more specific, it's the truth without a God that "just kinda awkwardly is". It's the absolute truth (which is to say the truth with God actually in the picture) that's without any shadow of a doubt "good and just". The Greek word "LOGOS" provides us with a fantastic description of this idea: > Logos is a term in Western philosophy, psychology, rhetoric, and religion derived from a Greek word variously meaning "ground", "plea", "opinion", "expectation", "word", "speech", "account", "reason", "proportion", and "discourse". It's perfectly commensurate with the bible to say that God is truth, logic, reason, speech, order, logos, and that he is good (i.e. not evil). > In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. > John 1:1-4 We also happen to have free will though (in addition to our sinful, limited human natures), and so he sometimes allows evil to befall us for our own good... Catholic scholar E. Michael Jones has some extremely prescient insights on the "Narrative Collapse" that's currently occurring, and how God can use it all to work for good. :') > The Coronavirus and the Culture War - E. Michael Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pKxa_5dIfY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pKxa_5dIfY > Logos Rising: A History of Ultimate Reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTfBPw6M5c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTfBPw6M5c > E. Michael Jones - The History of Logos and the Logos of History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cWZ_6myL8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cWZ_6myL8

blamestross 6y ago
It seems a some hilarious irony to attempt to use religious arguments in a discussion about not using a narrative provided for you.

lookdangerous 6y ago

In a sense I agree with your point as I read it. I think that pursuing the cultural ethic/narrative you may meet bits and pieces of the truth. But you only meet the truth itself if you pursue it, and it is not always easy to tell the truth apart from what you wish to be the truth.