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Universal Truth

Universal Truth : A thing that is true regardless of the observer's perspective.
At this time, no person can claim to be in possession of Universal Truth because no person is capable of viewing ALL things from ALL perspectives. The most anyone has at this time, is a portion of the Universal Truth.

Therefore, for Universal Truth to exist in the world you inhabit, you have to permit other perspectives. So, as well as following the ways of my immediate ancestors, I listened to the christian, the moslem, and any other voice that spoke on the nature of creation and it's purpose.

But, I never did listen exclusively to one voice because to do so would have put me in contradiction of what I knew to be the true state of affairs at this time (regarding Universal Truth).

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Truth is made from 3 components.
Two people each have 3 things which they believe to be these components.
Of these, there is one thing that both hold in common (as truth).

Of the 3 things each person believes, 2 are true.
As stated before, 1 truth is shared.
Which means 1 truth is unique to each person.

This means that each person believes in 1 lie.
Each person also thinks that the other believes in 2 lies.

Then, there is the third person who also has 3 things in his possession that he calls the 3 components of Truth.
But every single one of them is a lie.

Since this third person became one with the lies early on, he was able to make the world work for him.
Because while the others held each other in mutual mistrust/disdain (those 2 'lies'), they could not and would not let go of each other (because of the 1 truth they held in common).
That truth binds them, while the lie that each holds on to, hobbles them.

So, the one who has cheerfully accepted that he has nothng to do with Truth, simply gets on with life. He feeds, and he excretes, then he feeds some more, and excretes some more.

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The leaders of the waste are fond of talking about Universal Truths and when doing this, they use the term 'universal values' (which are a description of ways of thought and action that are based on Universal Truth). We see what the waste calls 'universal values' and at first we are baffled, then, we are insulted.

The foundation values in every society are based on the relationships between people. Between parent and offspring, between siblings, relatives, friends and strangers. These foundation values relate to obligations owed to the community and to the environment one depends on for survival.

Now, we know that between us and ones who identify as 'white', every single definition of those values is different. Yet, they refer to themselves as the owners of 'universal values'. Which implies that we do not exist.

We see this ignorance coming at us and we find it hard to comprehend the arrogance with which this flimsy thing is held so high. We have come to overstand that 'whites' actually believe that communication between themselves and the rest of the human species was made possible because they ('whites') were so 'open-minded' and 'dynamic in thought' (therefore most likely to be in possession of Universal Truth).

What they have refused to overstand is that the other peoples of these Earth are able to hold intelligible conversations with them because we have gone waaay out of our ways to overstand THIER ways. We have sacrificed self and we have sacrificed each other because we wanted to overstand THIER ways. Because WE had come to the realisation that we did not hold all the pieces (i.e. the 3 components of Truth) and we thought they had what was missing.

Now we know better. Now, we ought to know better and return to digging out that missing component from where it has always been.

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