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Sunday, September 19, 2004 + The Greater Truth + Pontius Pilate once asked Jesus, "What is truth?", not expecting an answer. Thus he didn't get one. I've been searching for the answers... seen many truths, but no answers. What's truth to me might not be truth to you. So now i look at truth in terms of levels. Cos sometimes both sides are true, but one side is more true. Getting confused? It's true that once i die, i can't bring a single strand of my earthly possesions. So why work so hard? True. But, living the life of a brain dead bum will be recorded as a wasted life. Thats like spitting on your literal "Birthday present". More true. You'll still have the same mind in the afterlife at least. I can ramble on about how working for selfish gain is meaningless Vs. Necessity of success, but i'll stray off topic. Either way, you can't fight truth. You can avoid it, ignore it, but you can't fight it. So you gotta get a greater truth if you ain't pleased with this one. The thing is, truth hurts sometimes... just gotta deal with it. People don't like to be corrected, it punctures their little cocoon. But, it takes bitter truth to mature... something i gotta live with. Cos i wanna mature, i wanna be perfect. Impossible, true. But its our duty to strive towards it, right? More true. Since i'm not imposing perfection on others, i should be okay with trying to perfect myself. The problem is, i'm not okay. And if i were okay, i'll get complacent right? Sheeesh....... I need a new strand of greater truth... i can't just live on fighting my flaws and weaknesses, its friggin annoying. Need a time-out. Is complacence really so horrible, or is it a natural rest- mechanism? haiz..... answers? anyone? cheers anyway... raises wine glass, ponders on ian wong beats around the bush@ 9:33 PM Comments: Post a Comment

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Sunday, September 19, 2004

+ The Greater Truth +

Pontius Pilate once asked Jesus, "What is truth?", not expecting an answer. Thus he didn't get one. I've been searching for the answers... seen many truths, but no answers. What's truth to me might not be truth to you. So now i look at truth in terms of levels. Cos sometimes both sides are true, but one side is more true. Getting confused? It's true that once i die, i can't bring a single strand of my earthly possesions. So why work so hard? True. But, living the life of a brain dead bum will be recorded as a wasted life. Thats like spitting on your literal "Birthday present". More true. You'll still have the same mind in the afterlife at least. I can ramble on about how working for selfish gain is meaningless Vs. Necessity of success, but i'll stray off topic.
Either way, you can't fight truth. You can avoid it, ignore it, but you can't fight it. So you gotta get a greater truth if you ain't pleased with this one. The thing is, truth hurts sometimes... just gotta deal with it.
People don't like to be corrected, it punctures their little cocoon. But, it takes bitter truth to mature... something i gotta live with. Cos i wanna mature, i wanna be perfect. Impossible, true. But its our duty to strive towards it, right? More true. Since i'm not imposing perfection on others, i should be okay with trying to perfect myself. The problem is, i'm not okay. And if i were okay, i'll get complacent right? Sheeesh.......
I need a new strand of greater truth... i can't just live on fighting my flaws and weaknesses, its friggin annoying. Need a time-out. Is complacence really so horrible, or is it a natural rest- mechanism? haiz..... answers? anyone?

cheers anyway... *raises wine glass, ponders on*

ian wong beats around the bush@ 9:33 PM

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