Truth

Imagine this:
Two men are walking in an almost-empty parking lot. By this I mean there are approximately 60 car slots, and 7 cars. There is few enough cars to be at any point in the lot and be able to see every car. Suddenly, one man stops the other.

"There is the car," he says.

"I see no car," says the second man.

So we find ourselves in a predicament. Much like the question "does the tree make any sound?", I ask you: is the car really there? Which man is sane, and which is insane? This is a microcosm of the definition of truth. Because, isn't truth nothing more than popular acceptance? It is true that cells are the smallest unit of an organism. It is true that Columbus set foot on North America in 1492. Isn't it? What if there was another man there? A third party who says, let's say, the car really isn't there. Then the lone man is crazy and it is truth that that the car isn't there. But does that make the car's existence any more true or untrue? More probable, maybe, but truer... I don't think so. Now lets expand this microcosm into the real world, and perhaps the ratio of "crazy men" to "sane men" (who know the truth). Let's say one man claims that Christopher Columbus set foot on North America last year. All would say that he is insane. But what prevents it from being true? Or better yet, let's say all people agree on one thing, like Christopher Columbus landing in 1492. Does that make it true?

The answer is no. Truth cannot be defined as popular acceptance. Just as easily as something can be "true", it can be "untrue". These ideas form the basis of the theory known as Skepticism. That theory states that nothing can be for certain. However, I've come to realize that one thing can be for certain. That is love. Love between two people, or love between a man and God, is eternally true. That is because love is not something that can be known. That is, it is not something that can be explained. It is something that can only be felt. Knowledge is not truth. Only love is truth.

Afterlife, among other things, is the relief of ignorance and fulfillment of knowledge, as in most cultures. These cultures believe that when in the afterlife, a man knows all and his soul can rest. This is true. But people have come to regard this "fulfillment of knowledge" as knowing things, such as all aspects of Science, including the human mind, or more abstract, religious things like "what is God's plan?". The afterlife is nothing more than complete love. Love is the only truth and holding it completely will be complete truth. All aspects of the Universe are contained by love. They were created by love and are controlled by love. I'm not quite sure whether Jesus of Nazareth is indeed El Christo, but he certainly did carry the right message: God is Love. God is the ultimate, omnipresent power in the Universe. Love is that power, that we know exists, we know its power, yet is intangible.

Most importantly, you cannot know love. You can only feel it. It is truth, and all the power of the universe lies within it. Perhaps one of the greatest accomplishments of man is to not "know" love, but to know it exists.

I'm so sick and tired of white people cruising down the street and pumping rap at 47,000 decibles. Why, God? Oh why have you cursed the planet with these cretinous buffoons who feel the constant need to pollute the air with their commercialized frickin' garbage??? With all of the great music that black artists have created, why is it that Whitey has chosen to latch onto the most annoying, repetitive, and phoney style of music ever set loose upon the world? Doesn't anybody listen to Otis Redding, Al Green, Etta James, Muddy Waters, or James Brown anymore?!

Look, I'm twenty years old and I understand the whole "youthful rebellion" and "teen angst" aspects of rap. Heck, I actually love a lot of the Old School stuff I've heard. But sadly, in the twenty-first century, white record executives, in conjunction with a new generation of overrated, overhyped, and overpaid rappers, have taken away ALL of the artistic integrity that rap (if it ever had any) could ever lay claim to. Hey Puffy, how can you be a hardass gangster mofo with an attitude fresh from the 'hood when you pull down eight figures a year, live in Beverly Hills, and drive a Lexus??? The answer, needless to say, is YOU CAN'T, YOU POSER!!!!!

Now, back to my original question. Why am I and many other unsuspecting motorists constantly being deluged by loud, obnoxious, and artistically void gangsta crap, blasting from the speakers of suburban white youths who couldn't possibly be LESS ghetto??? Why aren't white people proud of their OWN stuff? Do they have to hijack someone else's music (music that wasn't all that great to begin with) and overuse it 'til it's worn to the nub? Why do I NOT drive by white kids playing a piano sonata by Ludwig Van Beethoven, a tone poem by Richard Strauss, or one of the latest joints from Pyotr Ilytch Tchaikovsky? Why aren't white kids cruising down the road and bobbing their heads to Frank Sinatra, Johnnie Ray, Hank Snow, or Patsy Cline? This is great stuff and NOBODY listens to it! Well...at least nobody I've driven by.

Don't get me wrong. Music IS colorblind, and all races should be able to embrace eachothers' art unconditionally. But when people take the wrong music too seriously, we all suffer! If I could offer any sage advice to my fellow white guys, I would tell them to seek out REAL soul music, starting with the cats who invented rhythm & blues waaay back in the mid to late 1940's. Groups like the Ink-Spots, Billy Ward & the Dominoes, the Orioles, the Golden Gate Quartet, etc. Sure it's old, but sometimes those old tunes were even dirtier and more laden with innuendo than this modern "gangster" music, so it rocks anyway, you ignorant putz. OR, if group harmony doesn't suit your taste, give the Motown label a try. Everyone who recorded for them was brilliant (well, except for DeBarge. They sucked). Soul got even funkier in the 1970's when Isaac Hayes, Barry White, and Stevie Wonder put basslines with the beat.

So, what are you waiting for, Whitey? Get out there and listen to some good tunes!