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All religious activity on earth has been discontinued because the Earth Safety Standards Act has deemed it to be injurious to the health and welfare of our species. “Henceforth,” the Surgeon General’s statement has said, “those who have been unable to break the habit will have to go outside and stand in designated places to do their religious things and these designated locations will be far enough away from other people and places so as to not contaminate the environment with second hand religious effects and/or artifacts.” It always rains in these places.
Other significant announcements have also been part of recently reported events.
Subject: Shareware. A new magnet has been discovered and made available to all who wish to use it for whatever purpose. This magnet attracts small rodents, (less than 3” in length) and red hibiscus flowers. The magnet opts for the flowers when the two attractees are present in the same place at the same time. The magnet is not horseshoe shaped, it is spiraled and about the size of a bedspring. The color is vivid purple. The devise is not easily concealed and can be worn as a ring or an additional appendage.
A network of new magnet dispensing stations has been announced by B P, which intends to build these small but jazzy dispensaries next to their gas stations. I have been told that many of these will be near the wet, (because it rains), religious quarantine areas.
Finally, and at long last, a world beautification program has been announced by the Better Beauty Babes of Bristol. Through a grant, the Babes, (as they like to be called), have a fleet of new Caterpillar D9 Dozers. The fleet of 2, 000,000 bulldozers will begin their defined work of leveling ugly buildings, worldwide, by the end of the month. CNN headquarters and several fast-food chain buildings will be the first to go. CNN was selected not so much as a beauty issue (god knows it isn’t) but instead because it was just deemed as senseless as ugly architecture. “This is consistent with our ugly buildings mandate,” one of the “Babes” said to those gathered at a dinner of Mad Cow Mutton and Chives.
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Truth is a broken promise and therefore an oxymoron. Those who claim to know it negotiate, rationalize, and use it like a baseball bat. They are not looking for base hits. Truth is not a ring; it is a prison square with harsh corners. It self- justifies itself with an ersatz logic, and reason, neither of which is of particular importance to the cosmos, I think.
Truth does not unite us, it fractures and separates us. It is as hard as steel and as runny as hot lava. Truth doesn’t know or have anything to do with the theatric breaking of a new dawn or the heartbreaking sorrow of death. Truth is an “ism”.
“Just is” cannot be a truth. True love is not a truth. True grit and true stories are not truths. An untruth is an oxymoron. True blue is not a truth.
Descartes did not know truth anymore than others who presumed to speak for deities they have not known but only surmised. So, if there is no truth what is there that is worthwhile?
Plenty I say, and that is not a truth it is a fantasy. Faith is another matter entirely.
