Saturday, February 26, 2022

D.L. Gardner: You Have to See it to Believe it.

When people argue, onlookers often say the truth is likely somewhere in the middle. The Truth does not reside somewhere in the middle between the sides. From the beginning we’ve made wrong decisions even when the right choice has been graciously provided. The Truth abides far above the highest intellects and imaginations of humanity. 

In “Paradigms,” Joel Arthur Barker writes a simple but astonishingly profound truth: “I’ll see it when I believe it.” Truth must be believed before one can distinguish between what is real and what is error. Those who are following the false narrative, no matter how well traveled by the most intellectually elite, are still following a false narrative that may ring true, but is far from the truth. 


Truth coupled with belief comprises the most powerful insight. On the other hand, a narrative based on human nature or common sense coupled with belief produces the most destructive of all forces. Each of us follows belief trusting the end that is promised. If truth, then powerful insight. If narrative, then utter annihilation. 


All narratives come from the thoughts and imaginations of the heart. All truth comes from above. Thus, the heart has always and will always wrestle with the Truth from above. 


Today’s narratives are no different from what they’ve ever been. We see ourselves as competent and in control of our own worlds, at least most of the time. Who takes better care of us that we ourselves? Nature is our mother, and we worship her at all costs. Finding the golden fleece is our continual odyssey. Power and conquest is our destiny. 


In this world there is no consensus of truth. There is only struggle for control over those forces that do not follow the narrative. Mother nature is our supreme goddess as she has always been. We must protect her at all costs or reap total destruction. Everyone must conform to protect mother nature. Evil people do not revere mother nature, so they must be forced to follow the narrative for the survival of the human race. Even though mother nature provides life for all the living, she cannot protect herself. Only people can protect the her.


When mother nature is wounded, only the wisest among us can heal her. The wise know only they can heal mother nature, and only then if the rest of us follow the divine narrative. The rest of us must march to the step of the divine narrative, otherwise the whole planet will be destroyed. 


Around 250 years or so ago, a group of people asked whether we could live together in freedom rather than under compulsion of superior forces who would make us do what was for our own good and the good of all. What a radical idea! That thought bred a higher thought that we must all be equal if freedom could work. Ultimately, those thoughts led to a Creator Who is above all and intervenes in each life. 


Those founders who followed this truth knew freedom would work only as long as the people trusted the Truth to free us in every way. Truth always leads to freedom. The narrative always leads to destruction. 


Many today disparage ‘freedom' as a code word for oppression, when actually the narrative is the oppressor. The narrative always says ‘no.’ Freedom always says ‘yes.’ Believe the Truth and see that only Truth begets freedom.

 

Daniel L. Gardner is a syndicated columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.

12 comments:

Mike said...

Thanks for the valuable words of wisdom. Truth always reigns supreme.

Anonymous said...

Lmao @ 1 comment

Anonymous said...

Holy Bible states we should walk in faith which opposes seeing is believing.

Whom should I believe? Man or He who created mankind?

Minnie Thymes said...

Remember those two gnats circling around the peach cobbler at the family picnic? All the time, they were Kingfish and the suppository, aka poster, at 8:20 p.m.

Now THAT is LMAO!

Mitch said...

Reading between the lines, DL is saying that the truth is in the middle somewhere. Now go find it…

Anonymous said...

Both DL and Barker ignore that humans can learn how to distinguish truth from fiction.

Humans can be objective. Humans can have doubts and ask questions.

They can learn the difference definitions of opinion, supposition, and facts that are confirmable and how to test conclusions.

Humans actually can learn how to think empirically and recognize biased resources and check references and do sound research on their own.

I would remind them that as children, they didn't need visual confirmation to give up their belief in the tooth fairy.

But, apparently DL holds on to the magical thinking most children grow out of by age 7... Mother Nature, the Supreme Goddess, DL?

I have this image of DL throwing all his clothes in a washing machine set for hot water and when the machine stopped, being unable to distinguish tee shirts from his skivvies.

And, bless him, he was probably that child who couldn't connect the numbers on those paper mats in family restaurants.

He still can't see the picture.

Anonymous said...

"From the beginning we’ve made wrong decisions even when the right choice has been graciously provided."

Ha, welcome to Mississippi - where the state legislature does this year in and year out! ROTFLMAO!!!!

The old saying is that a broke clock is right at least twice a day! Welp, DL wasn't trying to be right and ended up being so this time! LOL!!!!

Anonymous said...

@2:42 AM
"circling around the peach cobbler..."

A circle IS round so it's redundant to say circle around or circling around. The correct usage is "circling the peach cobbler..."

Anonymous said...

Love DL! A man of the people. I never have to think when I read his columns.

Anonymous said...

@1:20 AM
Fear God, not them.

Anonymous said...

10:43 fails to recognize that man's confidence in his ability to discern right from wrong while relying on his own devices is directly proportional to the rise in genocide.

Anonymous said...

There are THREE sides to every coin. I count the ring.


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