What is it about the truth? There is something in that word that ultimately say, "this is it" "finally we can get to the bottom of it", the "tell all story" under the lies. The truth eludes to something we didn't already know, is it the last fact to come out and if so why.
The lines of truth and lies or truth and untruth seem to have become increasingly blurred that now one seems to believe that the adding of the words "The truth" in fact makes it the truth. Or is it simply the most popular version of any idea or story.
Is there an absolute truth or just absolutely no conscience to right and wrong? In fact right and wrong have become an assumption, they are an opinion, a watered down jumble of words, somebody's best defense, or simply a front put up by the person with the loudest voice or simply the most money.
So what is going on here? Perhaps we need a fresh revelation of truth. Perhaps we all need a good brain washing to rid our minds of the dirt and pollutants that somehow have blurred our vision on what is acceptable and what's not. Perhaps we need to clean out our ears and replace the filters, or shock horror, perhaps we need to choose not to participate in the ripping apart and tearing down of others, those we know in our homes, in our neighborhood or at the office, or those we don't in the celebrity magazine's. Perhaps in the latter you believe that it doesn't matter. We don't know these people, or, is it the practice of such habits that we need to saved from, so, this doesn't become a part of our everyday lives.
Desperate Housewives is a hugely popular mainstream Television program. If it were simply comic relief then perhaps it would be funny, but, this behavior has rapidly become accepted in everyday life, are we allowing ourselves to become desensitized to the truth, is it more acceptable to shroud our lives in lies as a result of living in a society that watches shows like this.
It has been said, "you are what you eat" perhaps this saying applies here. If we consume a daily diet of gossip magazines celebrity internet watch afternoon soaps and desperate housewives at night will the lines of right and wrong be blurred? Will we begin to believe that this is what is install for us in life too. Will we think when things begin to be difficult in our relationships or start to break down, that it's just because "that"s eventually what happens to everyone anyway.' Do we simply succumb to an outcome of destruction with little more than all round "it happens to the best of us" even from our friends. Shouldn't we fight! Shouldn't we be putting on the gloves and saying "No, I am rewriting this conclusion; the end is in fact the beginning. It is not predictable, it is not a product of lies, I am seeing the truth and getting on with it.
The truth…ahh I see, there is consequences in the truth. Do we want what comes with the territory of knowing everything, warts and all, or more so are we prepared to do what it takes to change to live a life like this. So is it a matter of uncovering the lies or finding the truth.
According to a new study it is suggested that it is the stomach rather than the heart that offers greater lie detection accuracy. It seems that when it comes to working out who is lying, changes in gastric physiology are a better indicator than standard polygraph methods in distinguishing between lying and telling the truth. The study by researchers at the
University of Texas, shows a clear link between the act of lying and a significant increase in gastric arrhythmia.
"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth." Alfred Adler
So how can our need for the truth be fulfilled. Well strangely enough we need first to know that the need is there. We are so desensitized by all that is around us that we do not even realize that what we hear, speak, see is not the truth. So, perhaps it"s the revelation of untruth that will bring forth the truth.
According to the That's Life!magazine, 96 per cent of women admitted to lying, 45 per cent said they lie most days and 50 per cent would lie about the man not being the actual father. (Yikes!) Yet blogger Justin confesses that it's not only the femmes doing the double-dealing. "As an older guy, 38, I can tell you that guys may get more mature, but this does not equate to honesty. Plenty of married fathers do just fine with younger women, as long as they are prepared to tell whatever lies are required to get them into bed."
Backing him up is the hard truth: statistics from a 2005 survey by "Write Stuff Enterprises", found the number one reason why men lie, is "to have sex". Sure, women lie about their weight, their contraception, their orgasms and would pass off a second-hand gift as a brand new present without fluttering an eyelash. Yet according to Heidi Muller, a relationship correspondent on AskMen, woman often lie because they are "wanting to protect your feelings". So is this a valid excuse?
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." Sir Winston Churchill
So perhaps it's easier just to let it be, do what you have to do to keep the peace. Or do all these half truths and best intentions just create an enormous mountain that one day you inevitably have to climb, do they just dig a big hole that one is at any moment in danger of falling in to.
Perhaps it's just better to go into it, whatever it is, be a relationship, a work place a family matter crying truth from the roof tops at least it may just be a stronger foundation than that of the one of lies.
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." Aldous Leonard Huxley, English novelist.
loved the truth stuff............very well written.