About the Truth

"One of the things that we are here for today and the next couple days is to find out what everyone wants to know is what happened. Something happened. We have his side, and we have my side. If both of us -- one picture and come up with two different stories. Something is wrong. Somebody is not telling the truth. Somebody's lying. I got sworn in. I'm sure they got sworn in, and everyone that gets up on the stand gets sworn in. We are all going to get sworn in. We are going to ask to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

One of the things I like -- I like reading and learning about words. One of the things I was fascinated in coming into this strange world to me is three truths. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I always thought it was just the truth. Apparently I was wrong, so I did some checking to find out what is it about these three truths? Same thing but yet they are different.

Well, the whole truth. What is the whole truth? The whole truth, what I found out when I asked that is, Don't take anything away from the truth, which means when we take something away from it, it's not a whole anymore. If we do that, that's a lie. If we do that, we are deceiving. What's nothing but the truth? Well, that means you don't add nothing to the truth. If we do that, we [are] deceiving. We are telling a lie, so this is why it's important that we tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But how do we jump from the truth to the whole truth to nothing but the truth when at one time all we had was the truth? Jesus said, "You shall know the truth." He didn't say you shall know the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The truth. For what happened between that time and this time to where we got to deal with three truths?"

--John Allen Muhammad

Maybe representing himself wasn't the wisest decision.

Ah, that's better.

Finished my salad and have relocated myself to a large grassy area near the trees. Leaves are raining on my head as I type. :) It's probably a good thing I am writing this entry, because this is prime laying down in the grass and falling asleep conditions. And surely, I would oversleep my lunchbreak, get covered with leaves, and be lost to the hearts and minds of man until spring.

Ah screw it, I'm laying down anyway. This is too good to pass up.

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Nice catnap in the sun. :)

Weird...

Wrote some posts on my handheld, but input the date wrong. (I had the 20th). Edited the posts on the LJ site to fix the date and turn off the Backdate option, and now they appear, but out of sequence. Hmm.