A coffeehaus reading. 2 shorties and a PostSecret that was actually quite frightening to create. Open mic! Pass it on.
You
Choo-Choo-Choose Truth?
In the icebreaker
Two Truths and a Lie, a person interjects one false statement for every two
truthful statement he or she makes.
A girl, let’s call
her J, finds great amusement in this game. Sometimes she even speaks randomly
in sets of three—1 lie : 2 truths. For instance, J (okay, actually just me) may say in an everyday conversation, “My first tooth didn’t fall out until
I was ten. I had a rich ‘tooth fairy’ who always gave me at least $1 for every
tooth. And I always got myself Laffy Taffy after every lost tooth.” Can you
pick out the lie?
To discern well,
bear in mind certain facts about the truth. The truth is not relative.
All statements cannot be true, which sometimes is obvious. But often the
statements do not seem mutually exclusive. One of the biggest mistakes is to
assume that all the assertions could be true. They’re not! The presence of
truth requires the presence of a lie, which by its very name and nature cannot
also be true. Also, the truth is not contingent on the lie. In fact, the truth
is not contingent on anything. The truth exists as truth, standing on its own
despite the reality of falsehood. The truth is absolute.
Or is it?
Yes it is.
Yes, of course it
is.
No, not
necessarily.
Wail
Talk
One day a group of
orcas held a discussion. It began when a scholarly whale declared, “If God
exists, he cannot be simultaneously all powerful and all good.” The group asked
him to explain.
He
continued, “The world is utterly flawed. If God is all powerful, how can
creation be so blemished? Even if we assume he’s all powerful and he simply
allows imperfection, how then can he be all good? Either God is all powerful
but not all good, or all good but not all powerful, or he is neither. He cannot
be both.”
The
religious orcas scolded him for his blind blasphemy. They recited to him God’s
decree for them to believe in his omnipotence and benevolence. And so they must
believe.
But
the great killer whale responded, “It is you who are blind, you who don’t
question. You’ve swum thousands of miles yet can’t see the reality. The most
innocent creatures get ensnared in death nets. Brother turns against brother
when survival is threatened. Men mercilessly kill to the brink of extinction
for pleasure and sport. Or even worse, they capture and enforce an atrocious
enslavement. The seas are crimson with the spilt blood from their hands. If
there is a god, either he heartlessly permits such cruelty or he cannot control
it.”
The
orcas did not know how to respond. The killer whale challenged them, “Where is
the evidence of omnipotence and benevolence? How can God allow such perversity
and still be all powerful and all good?”
One
child orca chimed in, “But see! God also gave us Free Willy.”
Please Don't Judge: My PostSecret It :[ 
You Choo-Choo-Choose
Truth? Part II
If you were to ask J which two of her statements are true,
she would reply with the following:
“My first tooth didn’t fall out
until I was ten,” is true.
“My first tooth didn’t fall out
until I was ten,” is false.
“I had a rich ‘tooth fairy’ who gave me
at least $1 for every tooth," is false.
Is the truth absolute?
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lol jk.
