Blurbs

I was playing a game online this morning. Not one that I play often. One that requires absolutely no thought, no concentration. Perfect thing for killing some time while I attempt to get caffeine levels to therapeutic and divest myself of this miserable sinus headache. I haven't taken the allergy medicine for four days now. Awoke with a sinus headache yesterday and today. Part of the headache could be related to lack of caffeine. My fibromyalgia has been raging so I'm decreasing caffeine intake. Not an easy task for someone who will routinely consume about 2 pots of coffee during the course of the day. Yesterday, I had 1 1/2 cups of coffee. Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi! (to quote the Ying Yang Twins) heeheehee

As this particular little internet game tends to be rather boring, the programmers have added some funny and some factual little blurbs to appear between rounds. One of the blurbs reads, "Speak the truth but leave immediately thereafter." That quote is probably heisted from someone, but I'm too lazy to google and find out. It is a pretty cool little thought, though.

What is truth?

There are those who can too easily define truth and other concepts such as love, hate, pornography, freedom, honorable surrender, god.... As one of the grand old masters of science fiction, Theodore Sturgeon, wrote in the introduction to Philip Jose Farmer's Image of the Beast (which was considered pornographic when it was released in the 1960s), people such as those are the labelers and are among the greatest threats to any society.

There are certainly mathematical and scientific truths. Beyond those realms, truth becomes skewed to the subjective.

Religion being an area which comes immediately to the forefront.

I'm going to have to continue this in the next installment. Time to get ready to roll out for twelve hours of fun at work. Yippee!

Until then, I'll be pondering the blurb... what is truth? and why does it seem that people do not want to hear truth? or perhaps just your particular skew on truth?