Dear All of Us,
"In all truth..."
Let's hope so.
If not, the bottom falls out:
marriage, media, morality,
friendship, advertising,
politics and governance,
packaging, commerce, sports,
history, contracts, trust, religion -
everything
everywhere
always.
We can survive weakness, mistake,
screw up, flubs.
We're had, dead in the water
without truth.
The gears grind to frozen stop.
Truth is what is,
actuality,
reality,
as is -ness
It's bedrock basic
to our spiritual life,
to our shared lives.
"What is truth?"
Pilate
John 18:38
Did he not know,
or did he not want to know?
And us?
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"Once the line between truth and fake is eroded,
everything will become fake.
We will not be able to believe anything?"
Wael Abd-Almageed
Professor of Enginering
University of Southern California
Quoted by Rachel Merz,
CNN Business, 25 March 2022
"Deepfakes are now trying
to change the course of the war"
THE PUBLIC PART IN PART
Pinocchio politicians with noses so long they tip over
and take us down with them.
Synthetic media.
Alternate facts.
Causing chaos - to confuse - to control.
Artificial Intelligence - by definition not real -
in all truth how intelligent is that?
Dictators dominating, violating peoples,
waring - land grabs, life denying,
teetering toward nuclear incineration.
"All men are created equal..." - "With justice for all..."
except indigenous peoples, slaves, the poor,
LGBTQIO, migrants and...
In all truth all are not treated as equal nor with justice.
Build a democracy on less than bedrock truth and
"Ashes, ashes, we all fall down."
Fake is the fault line and fail-fall when we are not based
"IN ALL TRUTH"
THE PERSONAL PART IN PART
Two martini friendships.
Casual sex.
Fronting a phony persona.
Religion as a prop.
Social climbing.
Trashing others.
Part time parenting.
Me First-ism.
Shop until you drop.
Not paying a living wage.
Addictions.
Frenetic, superficial lifestyle.
Falling for the latest flash of fashion.
Hoarding.
Gossip.
A life of trivial pursuits.
Such and sadly too much more are
basing persons on delusion.
It's like trying to build a skyscraper on a cloud.
It can't hold up because it is based on
the absence of what is actually so
"IN ALL TRUTH"
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Fortunately,
we don't have to stop,
or be stopped,
by
Empire Fake To Fail
because
"The truth will make you free."
Jesus
John 8:32
Well, it sure will and thank God for that!
We can be reality based,
based in what actually "IS"
"IN ALL TRUTH"
We can be free, living in the midst of
the delusional and spiraling demolition of Empire.
Its social, governmental, cultural, economic,
religious apparatus is in free fall,
not at all a freeing fall.
We can't escape it.
We live in its midst.
We can, though, live a "For Real" life
in the mess mix of Empire's unrealness.
Jesus did.
In him we can.
He invites us to abide in him,
to join others in the kin domain of good-
The Kingdom of God.
He shares it in word, example and inclusion,
a lived lesson that enlivens, wraps us in.
He is the embodiment,
the personalizing presence
of Ultimate Realness.
"In All Truth"
He is life shared,
truth based,
the way to go
"I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the father
but through me."
Jesus
John 14"6
Have we, will we ever more, "in all truth"
accept inclusion?
"Abide in me as I abide in you."
Jesus
John 15: 4
Are we in a "for Real", however flip floppy,
spiritual community?
Do we accept so intimate an inclusion
abiding in Jesus that we embrace
his teachings, values, lifestyle
and do so in community?
We live in a time of fake out.
We don't have to be.
"The truth will make you free."
"Abide in me."
"I am the way, the truth and the life."
"The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind -
Just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you,
So they might be one heart and mind with us.
Then the world might believe that you, in fact, sent me.
The same glory you gave me, I gave them,
So they'll be as unified and together as we are -
I in them and you in me.
Then they'll mature in this oneness,
And give the godless world evidence
That you've sent me and love them
In the same way you've loved me.
... So that your love for me
Might be in them
Exactly as I am in them."
Jesus
John 17: 21 - 24 & 26
The Message
"By this everyone will know that
you are my disciples,
if you have love for one another."
Jesus
John 13:35
Phony folds, collapses all about us.
Most likely more and worse to come.
Rough!
Not the end.
"Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done
on earthy as in heaven...""
We have a way to be,
a way to go.
We bond and base
"IN ALL TRUTH"
Hold to TRUTH,
John Frank
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to our seventy-six
visitors from the
Netherlands
and all new here
this week.
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