Tuesday 041613 - "Truth"

I'm rereading Susan Howatch's book The Wheel of Fortune. She looks at the life of A Welsh landed gentry family after WWI seen from the point of view of various members of the family. Today I read, "Truth spelled with a capital T was not in this case a synonym for reality; far from it. It stood for the way things ought to be, not the way things really were." (Howatch, Susan (2012-10-09). The Wheel of Fortune (Kindle Locations 10155-10157). Little Brown P/B. Kindle Edition.)

Actually, I think that both sides form the "whole truth". When Jesus reportedly said, "You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free", I think He was melding both aspects. When Pilate said, What is Truth", he was asking what we all ask many times in our lives. When Jesus spoke of Truth, I think He was expressing both the way we human beings "ought to be", i.e., loving, caring, compassionate beings, and that we would not "get there" unless we can see how things "really are". Susan Howatch writes powerfully in many of her works about how we delude ourselves, and of the disastrous effects that has.

I'm pretty sure we Americans are going to lie to ourselves about what happened in Boston and especially WHY. And we will get nowhere. I find myself quite sad at times that I shall probably live the rest of my Life ... what's left of it, chronologically ... in a mess of a World. But, I guess I'll try to create something better than a mess in my own situation.