Distortions of the truth, (RANT)

[Phtha]

Hi Tone, I to have thought a lot on the subject you bring up in your post.

Let me try and create and analogy of this problem.

Lets say there is a text uncovered tomorrow that is said to be the true teachings of some great prophet. The scrolls were well kept in some chest at the bottom of the sea and verified by the official organs of religion and media.
Many people now read this text and are taken away by it, huge congregations of worshipers gather and start to preach these wonderful words. All are in jubilation and can't believe at how these words touch each and everyone of them in a special way.

But then, a few months later it is discovered that these words are not the words of the one whom they were all told, in fact they may have even been written by some no name on welfare.

Foul! Everyone cries, Foul! How dare that man trick us. And they all give up on the texts that only a day ago they so cherished...

Why? Because they are not looking for the truth inside them. They are wanting to learn the truth from outside sources. Sources that they never questioned in their lives.


The truth does not come from the source of texts but from the effect the words and symbols contained therein produce.
And so the truth does not come from a persons mouth, but from the words that that the person is speaking.
Because the truth comes from within, not without.

So to all those people on that forum that you mentioned Tone... I find it funny how they will not believe something, or in this case even be willing to discuss the matter, until it has been verified by a source rather then the words they contain and rather then their own thoughts...

For some reason I'm reminded of a passage I recently read in the essenes gospels"

There is none yet among you that can understand all this of which I speak. He who expounds to you the scriptures speaks to you in a dead tongue of dead men, through his diseased and mortal body.