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Monday, May 30, 2005
pratensis pagus scitor cognitio
0-pratensis [of a meadow] (mead)
0-pagus [from the countryside] (pagan)
0-scitor -ari dep. [to seek to know , inquire, ask].
0-cognitio -onis f. [getting to know , study, knowledge, acquaintance; recognition; legal inquiry, investigation]; in plur., [ideas]..
.
pratensis pagus scitor cognitio ...or
... The Mead from the country who seeks to know the truth
.
.:So What is Truth?:.
.
Why do we care about Truth? There are many levels of truth applied. 1+1=2 is a simple mathematical truth that is provable and easy to understand. When you touch a hot stove the truth is you will get burned. Empirically that is discoverable as my daughter did once right after we talked about how hot things burn and leave impressions or scars for a little while or sometimes forever.
.
We were making breakfast and she all proud was explaining to me how hot stoves burn to show she understood and literally did a 'you don't want to do this... (sizzle) EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK wa waaaaaaaa' Her expression was of horror, in trying to show me, she did it, set her hand on the heating element. Sometimes that is just what we as humans have to do. It is part of learning and growing up.
.
How many of us were told to 'obey the speed limit or you will get a ticket.' This is a truth. And yet how many of us have gone faster then a posted limit and .... Eventually get caught. The truth is the actions have a consequence. We get a ticket. Part of learning and growing as humans is that from the simple truth like mathematics we learn as we can abstract the concept and apply it. We learn the truth of no sun block when we get burned. Of not touching hot stoves and these things we accept as truth.
.
The hard truths are the less easily to be abstracted into an algorithm or proven empirically by experiment of if you do X behavior, Y result occurs. The hard truths are the ones that take faith to believe or to accept with out understanding the how, but just to be certain and say 'yup, ok, I get it.'
.
People on the scale of humanity are in different places in ability to accept different kinds of truth on faith. Some people have no faith what so ever on anything other then mathematically proven principia or empirically certain actions that become A Priori, or accepted as given. Like in computers, CISC and RISC (complex instruction set computers and reduced instruction set computers) where RISC accepts the command 'pick up + cup' where 'pick up entails a whole set of movement coordination dexterity' the pick up portion we learned as little kids. Like my daughter with the stove, she learned empirically the reality, the truth about hot stoves and that learned bit of information is stored not as all the details about the experience but as a thing to not repeat again. Hot = ouch.
.
So people, learn things about truth that takes them through life. Some folks do not need feel the urge or require they ever move beyond the 1+1=2 living situations. Some people never experience situations that they have the choice to accept or reject the truth of the situation. They may stand there and keep trying to open a door that is locked but not get it that they can not go through that door because they just saw someone else go through the door so they should be able to. Truth, you need a key to get through some doors.
.
Remember in the Lord of the Rings, the Elvin door to the caves in the mountain, was not a physical key nor was it complicated... it was really quite simple and sometimes the simple truths are THE hardest to accept. ... "The doors of Durin - Lord of Moria. Speak friend and enter." Simply meant to say the Elvin word for 'friend.' It was the simple mind of Frodo that solved the riddle and succeeded. The learned studied practiced mind of Gandalf could not get it as he tried to find a solution, as he tried to find the truth.
.
The point here? How does this apply to my opening statement? What is Truth?
.
The Truth is out there is the point, if you are ready to hear see it and accept it. The truth can not be forced. It is progressive. You have to either step through a lot of living to be ‘ready’ or as some say, you have to have had lived many lives and worked out your Karma, your original pain, your path to be able to be ready for the next Truth.
.
Or if you are a good Buddhist, you can be real successful at having a ‘simple mind,’ like Frodo, that is open to with out judgment the core simplicity of truth.
.
The first step is to question. The questioning mind is ready to start the process to move through the door.
.
Often in life we get comfortable and stop questioning. We as humanity get comfortable with what we take for granted and as a routine. When it comes down to the end do the Armani suits matter? Does the new car affect your soul? Does it matter that you walked away from a situation that you saw needed help or looked the other way from issues? We do that when we stop questioning and we are in auto pilot mode.
.
Eagles do not have autopilot, and that my friends, is a Truth.
.
To soar in humanity we need to fully engage ourselves on all levels, not just math and A Priori in life. The Soul yearns to fly, open yourself up to questions with out judgment of the answers.
.
Or as Kenny Rogers sang in the ‘the gambler’ :
On a warm summer’s evenin’ on a train bound for nowhere,
I met up with the gambler; we were both too tired to sleep.
So we took turns a starin’ out the window at the darkness
’til boredom overtook us, and he began to speak.
He said, son, I’ve made a life out of readin’ people’s faces,
And knowin’ what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.
So if you don’t mind my sayin’, I can see you’re out of aces.
For a taste of your whiskey I’ll give you some advice.
So I handed him my bottle and he drank down my last swallow.
Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light.
And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.
Said, if you’re gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.
You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table.
There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done.
Now ev’ry gambler knows that the secret to survivin’
Is knowin’ what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
’cause ev’ry hand’s a winner and ev’ry hand’s a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.
So when he’d finished speakin’, he turned back towards the window,
Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to sleep.
And somewhere in the darkness the gambler, he broke even.
But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep.
You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table.
There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done.
You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count you r money when you’re sittin’ at the table.
There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done.
.: When one is ready :.
When one is ready, they will understand 1+1=1 or sometimes 1+1=3, that sometimes two people are more together then they are seperatly and or sometimes two people are really walking around as the other half of the same soul.
When one is ready, this is understand... on faith ... as a Truth.
0-pagus [from the countryside] (pagan)
0-scitor -ari dep. [to seek to know , inquire, ask].
0-cognitio -onis f. [getting to know , study, knowledge, acquaintance; recognition; legal inquiry, investigation]; in plur., [ideas]..
.
pratensis pagus scitor cognitio ...or
... The Mead from the country who seeks to know the truth
.
.:So What is Truth?:.
.
Why do we care about Truth? There are many levels of truth applied. 1+1=2 is a simple mathematical truth that is provable and easy to understand. When you touch a hot stove the truth is you will get burned. Empirically that is discoverable as my daughter did once right after we talked about how hot things burn and leave impressions or scars for a little while or sometimes forever.
.
We were making breakfast and she all proud was explaining to me how hot stoves burn to show she understood and literally did a 'you don't want to do this... (sizzle) EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK wa waaaaaaaa' Her expression was of horror, in trying to show me, she did it, set her hand on the heating element. Sometimes that is just what we as humans have to do. It is part of learning and growing up.
.
How many of us were told to 'obey the speed limit or you will get a ticket.' This is a truth. And yet how many of us have gone faster then a posted limit and .... Eventually get caught. The truth is the actions have a consequence. We get a ticket. Part of learning and growing as humans is that from the simple truth like mathematics we learn as we can abstract the concept and apply it. We learn the truth of no sun block when we get burned. Of not touching hot stoves and these things we accept as truth.
.
The hard truths are the less easily to be abstracted into an algorithm or proven empirically by experiment of if you do X behavior, Y result occurs. The hard truths are the ones that take faith to believe or to accept with out understanding the how, but just to be certain and say 'yup, ok, I get it.'
.
People on the scale of humanity are in different places in ability to accept different kinds of truth on faith. Some people have no faith what so ever on anything other then mathematically proven principia or empirically certain actions that become A Priori, or accepted as given. Like in computers, CISC and RISC (complex instruction set computers and reduced instruction set computers) where RISC accepts the command 'pick up + cup' where 'pick up entails a whole set of movement coordination dexterity' the pick up portion we learned as little kids. Like my daughter with the stove, she learned empirically the reality, the truth about hot stoves and that learned bit of information is stored not as all the details about the experience but as a thing to not repeat again. Hot = ouch.
.
So people, learn things about truth that takes them through life. Some folks do not need feel the urge or require they ever move beyond the 1+1=2 living situations. Some people never experience situations that they have the choice to accept or reject the truth of the situation. They may stand there and keep trying to open a door that is locked but not get it that they can not go through that door because they just saw someone else go through the door so they should be able to. Truth, you need a key to get through some doors.
.
Remember in the Lord of the Rings, the Elvin door to the caves in the mountain, was not a physical key nor was it complicated... it was really quite simple and sometimes the simple truths are THE hardest to accept. ... "The doors of Durin - Lord of Moria. Speak friend and enter." Simply meant to say the Elvin word for 'friend.' It was the simple mind of Frodo that solved the riddle and succeeded. The learned studied practiced mind of Gandalf could not get it as he tried to find a solution, as he tried to find the truth.
.
The point here? How does this apply to my opening statement? What is Truth?
.
The Truth is out there is the point, if you are ready to hear see it and accept it. The truth can not be forced. It is progressive. You have to either step through a lot of living to be ‘ready’ or as some say, you have to have had lived many lives and worked out your Karma, your original pain, your path to be able to be ready for the next Truth.
.
Or if you are a good Buddhist, you can be real successful at having a ‘simple mind,’ like Frodo, that is open to with out judgment the core simplicity of truth.
.
The first step is to question. The questioning mind is ready to start the process to move through the door.
.
Often in life we get comfortable and stop questioning. We as humanity get comfortable with what we take for granted and as a routine. When it comes down to the end do the Armani suits matter? Does the new car affect your soul? Does it matter that you walked away from a situation that you saw needed help or looked the other way from issues? We do that when we stop questioning and we are in auto pilot mode.
.
Eagles do not have autopilot, and that my friends, is a Truth.
.
To soar in humanity we need to fully engage ourselves on all levels, not just math and A Priori in life. The Soul yearns to fly, open yourself up to questions with out judgment of the answers.
.
Or as Kenny Rogers sang in the ‘the gambler’ :
On a warm summer’s evenin’ on a train bound for nowhere,
I met up with the gambler; we were both too tired to sleep.
So we took turns a starin’ out the window at the darkness
’til boredom overtook us, and he began to speak.
He said, son, I’ve made a life out of readin’ people’s faces,
And knowin’ what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.
So if you don’t mind my sayin’, I can see you’re out of aces.
For a taste of your whiskey I’ll give you some advice.
So I handed him my bottle and he drank down my last swallow.
Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light.
And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.
Said, if you’re gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.
You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table.
There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done.
Now ev’ry gambler knows that the secret to survivin’
Is knowin’ what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
’cause ev’ry hand’s a winner and ev’ry hand’s a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.
So when he’d finished speakin’, he turned back towards the window,
Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to sleep.
And somewhere in the darkness the gambler, he broke even.
But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep.
You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table.
There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done.
You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count you r money when you’re sittin’ at the table.
There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done.
.: When one is ready :.
When one is ready, they will understand 1+1=1 or sometimes 1+1=3, that sometimes two people are more together then they are seperatly and or sometimes two people are really walking around as the other half of the same soul.
When one is ready, this is understand... on faith ... as a Truth.
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