Truth is.....

Like my status for a TBH, Truth Is, Let's Be Real, ect. These are common posts on facebook, but how truthful are they...infact...what really is truth? "Truth is... you're super sweet and really cool to be around. I love you soo much! We gotta hang soon! ILY!" This was a post from one of my friends onto the facebook page of a girl she told me the day before she didn't like because the girl was contentious. So to who was she telling the truth and how do we know? How and why do we believe anyone? I was born in a small town with not much nearby. My family was very well respected. My mom was known as a very garrulous person. My dad was the pastor of a big chuch there. Often during his sermons, which I considered my thirthy minute respite, he would tell a blithe story on the subject of what he was preaching about. Well obviously... anyway, during the story or at the very end of it my friends would almost always ask me, "Is that a true story?" "Yeah" I would say. But I would think... why would they doubt him? Who would get up there and lie? His job was to be the Bible's exponent. Why did they not automatically acquiesce what he says? Now as I am older, I realize that people do things for selfish reasons.People will be allured to lie or will will lie in order to make people covet their belongings, make someone crestfallen, or even to be lamentable. So how do we know who is lying and who is telling the truth? Whe you say, "Excuse me, do you know where Walnut Street is?" and I say, "Yes, you have to turn on the sinuous Fayettville Road and go about three miles until you see 7th Street, then turn right onto Walnut." How do you know I am not a crazy killer trying to lead you into a death trap? Truth is... you don't. Until you drive down those roads and find the first right on 7th street, you don't know if what I'm saying is accurate. In court, lawyers and witnesses are sworn in to tell the truth. When a witness gets up to profess what happened, they are swear on the Bible to tell "the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help them God." What's to stop a prosecuting witness from lying because they feel the "wastrel" defender deserves a retribution. In the movie A Few Good Men, there is a trial for a man who was killed in his room at a millitary camp. The general had asked two of the guys who were vanguards to kill him, but he has lied to everyone about it. The general was a pretty well respected, sonorous man. Most people probably thought of him as insuperable. However, his life was completely disheveled. At the end of the movie, many people looked at him in an askew manner. Truth is... we have all lied once or twice in our lives. I think trust is a misnomer because it implies you believe the person is telling you the truth and rarely do people tell the full truth especially when questioned. It may even be unintentional. I think faith is a better word because it implies that you don't know they are telling the truth but you believe they have good intentions and are not trying to decieve you. So... truth is... I still have like 30 more words to go and I'm not sure what to talk about... I guess I will explain the first few stories at the beginning of this paper. Truth is... most of that was not the truth. I did grow up in a small town where my family was highly respected, but I was not born there. That post was not from my friend and there was no contntious girl. I'm sure it happened some day somewhere, but not to anyone I know. Now, obviously, I did that on purpose, but what about the writers that do it for personal glory like Stephen Glass? Can we trust what we read, see on t.v., or hear? Probably not, but we hae to make our own decisions on what to think, believe, and be extremely careful about what we say. Truth is... a very simple thing that can become very complicated.



song: Winnie the Pooh's- Trust In Me