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Heroes Community > Tavern of the Rising Sun > Thread: To Tell The Truth
Thread: To Tell The Truth
Shiva
Shiva


Promising
Famous Hero
posted July 20, 2005 04:07 PM bonus applied.

To Tell The Truth

Something I wrote.
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To Tell The Truth Is To Lie


I am a teller of a truth and a liar. I speak the truth of the moment and know it will change. And so I lie with each word.

There are those who speak their truth and think it will stay the same. They are sure they never lie and so, they are more into the illusion.

If you know that this is all ephemeral and shifting like a shadow on the sidewalk, then you will never think that anything you say is written in the stone of that sidewalk and permanent. And even if is written there, the feet passing over will wear it down in time to nothing from which it came.

To speak the truth knowing it is a lie is close to being holy but never quite there. For there is always the flaw of the changing coloring this expression, and one is left with emptiness where there was fullness.

This emptiness is beautiful because of how clean it is, clean and pure, bereft of all dust, but it to is a lie of illusion when one thinks it is permanent.

A vacuum is always filled, and the vacuum of absent ego is always filled by more life. Those who claim permanent emptiness are full of themselves. Those who claim permanent fullness are empty.

To speak a lie knowing you are thinking something else is what some people call the truth. It is a truth born of a desire to please and not rock the boat, not make waves that will change the seeming calmness of the journey.
Watch the lake. It is calm and then stormy and nothing one does will change the nature of the weather. The boat will be rocked whether or not one rocks it because the nature of the life is change and movement. There is no lasting haven on this world except perhaps the love of the rocking.

I am a speaker of truth and a liar driven by the fire in my heart which says to write this knowing it is filled with fractions of the whole and never quite there, knowing its empty of the ability to speak of the greater picture. Watch, I am showing you my soul.

I am married to the truth and it is a marriage born of the desire to be whole. It is a hard road to travel because one moves at a different pace from those who wish to be divorced from this. It is a lonely road, one few wish to travel because there is much company in remaining with those who only wish to be comfortable in their complacency.

And I am a liar if I think I am better than anyone because of this. I am just myself.

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Romana
Romana


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Thx :D
posted July 20, 2005 05:09 PM

Are u also a chaser of the truth?


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Shiva
Shiva


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posted July 20, 2005 06:01 PM

I used to chase woman but I can't run as fast anymore.
In a moment of poetic clarity, I wrote the above, I don't
think I was chasing it, rather it just came.
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jebus
jebus


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TheJester akaJeebs akaJebfoo
posted July 20, 2005 06:39 PM

wow...

one of those things that you're not sure what it meant but you're sure it meant something.




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Romana
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Thx :D
posted July 20, 2005 06:57 PM

it means people are ever-changing I think.

One moment you think of something one way and when you get older and look back you see it differently.
Like for instance a few years ago I was afraid of people (long story yadayada..not gonna go into that) and nowadays I couldn't be more different. I'm very social , outgoing heck..I even love being around em..

funny thing..life
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Svarog
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statue-loving necrophiliac
posted July 21, 2005 04:22 AM

Quote:
In a moment of poetic clarity, I wrote the above, I don't
think I was chasing it, rather it just came.

You call THAT "clarity"?
Its written like you've been dancing on the celestial spheres (so to say, in the spirit of the thread ), though if I dissect it, it reduces to few regular metaphysical claims and some more philosophical rambling, that i dont agree much with. But i'll leave it at that, its nicer that way.
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jebus
jebus


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TheJester akaJeebs akaJebfoo
posted July 21, 2005 05:13 AM

Quote:

You call THAT "clarity"?



One man's moment of clarity is another man's labrynth...


(all need another drink to work on my "moment of clarity")




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Shiva
Shiva


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posted July 21, 2005 12:44 PM

Quote:

You call THAT "clarity"?
Its written like you've been dancing on the celestial spheres (so to say, in the spirit of the thread ), though if I dissect it, it reduces to few regular metaphysical claims and some more philosophical rambling, that i dont agree much with. But i'll leave it at that, its nicer that way.


Never read a poem to a non-poet
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Romana
Romana


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Thx :D
posted July 21, 2005 12:47 PM

or to a statue-loving necrophiliac for that matter  
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Shiva
Shiva


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posted July 21, 2005 10:13 PM

Yep, I think once he finished of all the aardvarks,
his heart was broken. And being a physicist, the
gravity of the situation never lets him see the
inspiration of his soul which he doesn't think exists
anyway
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