I think it is difficult to answer what is true because yes, sometimes seemingly opposing facts can be both true. It is the nuances or the details that may differ. But if we dig enough, we will find some universal truth such as compassion, impermanence, interconnectedness ...
With truth, I feel like I sit on an ocean of fact, opinion, and intuition and I need to be like a boat with a weighty 25,000-pound keel that will self-right on whatever stormy truth comes, but it's harder than ever to know. We're all so fallible as humans. We need grace.
There’s a difference between emotional truth and facts. There was a ceasefire on Oct 6. Fact. Hamas broke that ceasefire. Fact. No one would have been killed had they not broken this ceasefire. Hamas stores weapons in schools and mosques. Fact. Some Al Jazeera journalists and UNWRA employees were terrorists. Fact. Kim, if your daughter was held hostage for 450 days without sunlight, medical care and constantly raped you would raise hell too. Anyone who defends Hamas has lost all moral clarity and is simply a Jew hater. When one gets all their news from Al Jazeera and most MSM they are buying into an emotional lie and falsehood. Jew hatred is the oldest hate on the planet and it’s back with a vengeance. Did you ever question the truth of the Assad regime? Or just Israel?
My post is less about politics and more about my own certainty about what I thought to be true and what I believe (and yes, emotional truths are not facts.) I am questioning myself and my beliefs more. I used to be SO SURE of myself, people, organizations, governments.
I am not questioning the truth about what happened in Israel on October 7th. At all. They are standing up to the terrorists, defending their country and people. I believe Israel is doing the work that other governments around the world are afraid to do. They are staying strong in the face of intense criticism and blatant misinformation. (This is why I subscribe to Eve Barlow and don't miss any of her posts.) Don't mistake my musings for support for terrorists. It is not. If it landed that way, I apologize. It wasn't my intention.
Thank-you for sharing your insight and experience. You know I welcome the discussion. The last year is cracking something open in me and I am sharing in real time as I'm cracking open. I don't have the answers...I am challenging my assumptions. I crave dialogue and people that make me think twice (or three times.) xo
I was responding to “… I question whether razing Gaza is necessary to find the bad guys,” and a particular jihadi author on Substack who posts links to lies who you subscribe to.
Such a complex issue. I think pursuing truth should include a willingness to view and uncover all sides of the issue including those we might be highly suspicious of. Complex indeed.
I have a feeling a LOT of people are going to be confronted with the falsities of their beliefs in 2025. Leopards will be eating faces and all of that. And I sort of can't wait. Not looking forward to the collateral damage caused by that, though.
Some truths are unknowable, unproveable. We need to have that humility. "Facts" evolve as we gain more knowledge/information. Does that mean we were "wrong" before? There are so many ways to crack this egg. But what we have now is deciding the truth first, then cobbling together bullsh!t "proof" to meet our agenda, and denying the proof of the falsehoods when those are presented. It's irritating AF. No, there aren't good people on both sides when one side is a bunch of N*zis. And, no, genocide is not the solution to the they-don't-like-us-we-don't-like-them problem. We are watching the world implode in so many ways. It's terrifying. And, yet, in my California bubble, somehow, I think the ship will right itself. Don't know how, when or why, just that little glimmer of hope. And, possibly, an unknowable truth.
What a great exploration of truth Kim, and I love where you land with it—truth is something we experience from within. And maybe the more we recognize this, and honor that truth is as diverse as the individual that carries it, we can deepen our own relationship to how it lives and evolves.
I think it is difficult to answer what is true because yes, sometimes seemingly opposing facts can be both true. It is the nuances or the details that may differ. But if we dig enough, we will find some universal truth such as compassion, impermanence, interconnectedness ...
With truth, I feel like I sit on an ocean of fact, opinion, and intuition and I need to be like a boat with a weighty 25,000-pound keel that will self-right on whatever stormy truth comes, but it's harder than ever to know. We're all so fallible as humans. We need grace.
There’s a difference between emotional truth and facts. There was a ceasefire on Oct 6. Fact. Hamas broke that ceasefire. Fact. No one would have been killed had they not broken this ceasefire. Hamas stores weapons in schools and mosques. Fact. Some Al Jazeera journalists and UNWRA employees were terrorists. Fact. Kim, if your daughter was held hostage for 450 days without sunlight, medical care and constantly raped you would raise hell too. Anyone who defends Hamas has lost all moral clarity and is simply a Jew hater. When one gets all their news from Al Jazeera and most MSM they are buying into an emotional lie and falsehood. Jew hatred is the oldest hate on the planet and it’s back with a vengeance. Did you ever question the truth of the Assad regime? Or just Israel?
Hi Carissa. I agree with you.
My post is less about politics and more about my own certainty about what I thought to be true and what I believe (and yes, emotional truths are not facts.) I am questioning myself and my beliefs more. I used to be SO SURE of myself, people, organizations, governments.
I am not questioning the truth about what happened in Israel on October 7th. At all. They are standing up to the terrorists, defending their country and people. I believe Israel is doing the work that other governments around the world are afraid to do. They are staying strong in the face of intense criticism and blatant misinformation. (This is why I subscribe to Eve Barlow and don't miss any of her posts.) Don't mistake my musings for support for terrorists. It is not. If it landed that way, I apologize. It wasn't my intention.
Thank-you for sharing your insight and experience. You know I welcome the discussion. The last year is cracking something open in me and I am sharing in real time as I'm cracking open. I don't have the answers...I am challenging my assumptions. I crave dialogue and people that make me think twice (or three times.) xo
I was responding to “… I question whether razing Gaza is necessary to find the bad guys,” and a particular jihadi author on Substack who posts links to lies who you subscribe to.
https://open.substack.com/pub/futureofjewish/p/the-gaza-casualty-statistics-are?r=g4otx&utm_medium=ios
Such a complex issue. I think pursuing truth should include a willingness to view and uncover all sides of the issue including those we might be highly suspicious of. Complex indeed.
I have a feeling a LOT of people are going to be confronted with the falsities of their beliefs in 2025. Leopards will be eating faces and all of that. And I sort of can't wait. Not looking forward to the collateral damage caused by that, though.
Some truths are unknowable, unproveable. We need to have that humility. "Facts" evolve as we gain more knowledge/information. Does that mean we were "wrong" before? There are so many ways to crack this egg. But what we have now is deciding the truth first, then cobbling together bullsh!t "proof" to meet our agenda, and denying the proof of the falsehoods when those are presented. It's irritating AF. No, there aren't good people on both sides when one side is a bunch of N*zis. And, no, genocide is not the solution to the they-don't-like-us-we-don't-like-them problem. We are watching the world implode in so many ways. It's terrifying. And, yet, in my California bubble, somehow, I think the ship will right itself. Don't know how, when or why, just that little glimmer of hope. And, possibly, an unknowable truth.
Thanks for this, KVB. xo
What a great exploration of truth Kim, and I love where you land with it—truth is something we experience from within. And maybe the more we recognize this, and honor that truth is as diverse as the individual that carries it, we can deepen our own relationship to how it lives and evolves.