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Lies, Liars, and the Pursuit of Authenticity

What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?


In a world where deception often wears the mask of authenticity, I find myself grappling with the disappointment that clings to untruths and the architects of lies. Yes, Clinton and cohorts may have suggested that the best phony is an authentic one, but where does this perilous game of duplicity cease? How do those steeped in falsehoods find solace in the quiet of the night?

My mother, a beacon of authenticity, instilled in me the value of being a good person. A lesson etched in the fabric of my being, pushing me to strive for authenticity in a world that often favors the artifice. Yet, as I navigate the labyrinth of lies, I wonder about those who choose a path veiled in deceit.

How do they sleep at night, these weavers of untruths? Is there no tug at the conscience, no whisper of moral reckoning? I contemplate these questions with a heavy heart, fueled by the desire to live up to my mother’s expectations—to be a person of integrity, to wear authenticity as my armor against the allure of deception.

For in the pursuit of truth, there lies a liberation—a lifting of the heart, a reprieve for the weary soul. The burden of falsehoods, a weighty shroud, dissipates in the presence of genuine authenticity. To enter the tunnel of life unencumbered by the baggage of deceit is to be truly free.

As I pass on the torch of authenticity to my son, I hope he carries it forward into a world that may at times blur the lines between genuine and counterfeit. The truth, a timeless compass, guides us through the maze of uncertainty, offering a path illuminated by the light of sincerity.

So, here’s to the hope that authenticity becomes a contagious force, spreading from one heart to another. For in the embrace of truth, we find not only the freedom to be ourselves but also the serenity to rest our heads on the pillow, knowing that our journey through the tunnel is marked by the indelible stamp of authenticity.

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  1. Originally in Sanskrit Truth Means Reality

    Yet There Lies Truth of the Problem Humans Perceive

    THEiR ReaLiTies Differently And of Course Culturally

    Group and Even Solo in Ways of Stories We Co-Create
    And Bond
    And Bind
    Over Often

    (Religion, etc)

    With No Respect
    to How The Stories
    Match Any Part of Nature

    That is Otherwise Understood

    More As Objective Reality than Subjective

    Human Story TaLinG Indeed As YeS AGAiN Humans

    Will Believe Lies are Truth and Truth are Lies So Many

    Great Case Studies in Current HiSToRY All Colored Orange

    As Such
    With A Minion
    Series Prophecy
    of Movies All Coming
    True With Most Despicable

    Lying Leaders too Just Tens
    And Thousands of Lies Ever
    Multiplying More Where

    Lies Are Perceived

    As Truth Even

    When the Despicable
    Leader Insists Folks Will
    Still Support Him if He Shoots
    Someone in Broad Daylight on 5th

    Avenue as of Course Just This Week
    Some Leaders Out of Night Motels in

    Broad Daylight Don’t Care if A President
    is a Convicted Criminal Felon or Not As

    The Criminal Way of Life Becomes

    Even Gospel Truth to Celebrate

    in Evangelical Ways of New

    Heroes Replacing Old

    Ones in Terms

    Of Orange

    MeMe’s Too

    i Tend to Reflect on the Neuroscience
    Finding That Humans Mostly Hallucinate
    The Stories of Their Lives Based on Past
    Hallucinations of Stories They Co-Create

    Dear Lord When Lies Become Truth the

    Case Studies Now Are Too Numerous to Count

    Laying Low in A Real Garden of Eden As Nature Doesn’t

    Lie Except For the Part That Matter is an Illusion and All is
    Actually Energy Moving Through Vast Dark Matters of Space

    From Smallest to Largest Parts as Even Quantum Mechanics

    Shows Truth is an Ever Moving Target and Even Human Story

    too We Create by Our Participation of Co-Creating This Moving

    Target

    And Or

    Reality
    Or And
    Truth Now

    It’s The Condition of
    The Condition Best Solution
    It Seems is to Create A Better Story

    At Least One Not So Tainted Orange
    And The Colors of Minion Movies Painted With Group Think

    Where in CuLTuRE Anything and No Thing Continues to Rise and Fall…

    True a Price of Freedom is Sorting Through Reality to Find Our Best Truths

    And
    Co-Create
    Them All

    With
    SMiLes…

    Dear Miriam

    Even Sharing
    Them in Mutual
    And Consensual Ways When Possible..:)

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  2. Either you see the world as divided into your group and the ‘others’ – which makes them marks for you to prey on – or you don’t. I work very hard not to have the mindset which says it’s okay to fool others as long as you get what you want, that they are suckers.

    It requires a twisted childhood – we know these people’s parents were awful people (just passing down what they got?). And it is either encouraged or not by the grownups you depend on for everything for almost two decades. Hard to question conditioning that long.

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