Truth doesn't hurt
Whatever mindless fool said “truth hurts” as well as whoever continues to say such a wretched lie, is henceforth condemned to Hell for a mortal sin. This eternal punishment shall not be revoked unless they beg forgiveness and change their understanding of the word ‘truth’.
Truth does not hurt. Lies hurt.
Stop blaming the pain of your sins on the light of truth. That false accusation of your cowardice to accept reality is a grave sin that defiles the sanctity of the most holy divine whether or not you agree. Divinity is truth, and divinity does not hurt. Hurt is caused by evil. Those of you who perceive the sensations of physical stimulus differently are manipulating your own understanding of reality for one reason or another and that is a different matter.
If you are experiencing discomfort for what is ultimately good, what is happening is not hurt, it is healing. Healing can be uncomfortable and painful, but hurt is a movement away from pleasure. Pain is more of a description for the state of being that is less than pleasurable, and if at any point you are feeling pain, you may say it hurts, but that again is your perception recognizing a state of existence as moving away from love, goodness, and health.
Truth is always movement toward love, pleasure, peace, and all that is good.
Most of you who claim “truth hurts” do so because you have deluded yourselves with lies that you should not ever have allowed yourselves, or been encouraged to believe by others. You are the cause of your own pain because you denied the goodness of reality for a foolish lie that cannot exist in truth. That would be painful, which is why it is never a good idea to obscure truth to hide it. Truth may be obscured to reveal it in cases where it is complicated or difficult to understand, but that is always an effort to reveal truth, never confuse it.
When you say “truth hurts” because you believed an arrogant lie about your own false perception of reality, you have placed your own self before that of the most holy divinity of existence. That is a great sin, and the very sin of Lucifer when he fell and first knew pain. Rather than assume you know better than the facts of reality, you should always make an attempt to accept reality and live with it. If you don’t like it, then do what you can to change it. That is the very reason why Democracy is such a good form of government.
For all manner of reasons social activity in civilization spins out of control and the actions of some results in the pain of others. The existence of that pain, intentional or unintentional is reality resulting from human imperfections by simply not being omniscient. Not sin, humanity. It is not necessarily wrong, which is why it is important to be able to change reality, if possible, when pain is caused. Democracy is how society and civilization can best do that, but it requires truth to able to be discussed clearly, maturely, and with sensible reason to describe its applications and qualities to a situation.
That should never be painful, and if it is, that is because there was malignant deception somewhere led people into sin and caused them pain. Truth is not the hurt, it is the medicine. Do not ever deny it. Do not ever cover it up. Do not ever fear it. Truth can be handled by the youngest, most inexperienced, most simple just as it can by the most wise, worldly, and experienced. The only reason people feel like they need to keep truth to themselves or within a private group is because they are deceiving others maliciously.
Accepting truth and not denying it does not mean you need to reveal it at all times, because it is like a stage prop that is better painted and covered with decorations. If it needs to be revealed, do so, but generally it should be accepted as a fact without needing to discuss it, and never confused with a lie. Confusing truth with a lie is like saying there is a bridge, causing people to believe it, and then when they step out onto that bridge, they fall, are harmed by the lie, and experience pain. That pain is a disillusionment of reality where the relative difference between love and hate, truth and deception, is so significant that is a shock of negative sensation.
Like soaking in a hot bath and then jumping into a cold pool. The experience is significant immediately, but you acclimate to the change relatively quickly and the experience is normal before long. Some people, like myself, even find such shocks enjoyable, and can be seen soaking in the hot tub, then jumping in the cold pool, then soaking in the hot tub, then jumping in the cold pool, and enjoying the movements of pain to pleasure to pain to pleasure which are all within a tolerance that I find bearable.
For all that a person may experience pain when they learn a truth that replaced a lie, they will experience the joy of moving toward pleasure and eliminating pain. That is not a reason to cause pain for others, but it is certainly a better feeling than causing a lie that will result in harm when it causes pain. Therefore, revealing a truth that brings pain is good, whereas telling a lie that creates false security is an evil.
Why do some of us enjoy pain more than others? Better ask a psychologist because I don’t know, but I think the people you will find who most enjoy pain, are the ones that most enjoy strenuous exercise. What bodybuilder does not find the ecstasy of exhaustion after pushing their muscles to their limits and past them the smallest amount, resulting in pain, and later growth of strength? What runner does not experience a high after raising their heart rate and establishing a rhythmic breathing cycle that moves oxygen all throughout their body most efficiently, including to their brain where they enjoy serotonin and other natural happy sauce?
Pain is not something to fear, it is something to overcome. In that we should all help each other as we can. Most importantly that is by lessening the universal suffering all humans experience, the greatest of which is injustice.
Justice is the central pillar and core of divine authority. It is the heart and soul of God, so to speak. When justice is affronted, God is harmed. When injustice is caused, people suffer the most agonizing experiences of human nature. A civilization, nation, or local community that does not maintain solid, stalwart justice at all times, will always fall. If the center cannot hold, the entire circle will break.
Love is justice. Love is the justice for the suffering of the human condition. True love is the most sublime experience of existential justice for the unknowable reasons why we hurt as people. Never stand in the way of a person’s love for another, whether that is heterosexual, homosexual, transexual, monogamous, polygamous, or other reasonable human expressions. Do not allow yourself to become the fracture in the love established between people— in other words, do not commit adultery.
If you are going to engage in extramarital sexual relations with a person, either as the non-spouse, or as a spouse of the marriage, do so in full agreement with the other spouse and the non-spouse. Establish truth. Do not create a lie or hide something like that. Not all people want to do that, but there are a great many in this day and age who do, and that should not be unequivocally denied them. That is sexual gratification in most situations and not an exchange of love through the spousal bond.
Do you recall how I wrote about sexual enjoyment being the least important quality of a marriage bond? This is one of those remedies some people may find themselves using to be sexually satisfied if there is a problem they cannot resolve otherwise. If a spouse brings this to the other spouses attention, please work with them. That is not something to be divorced over if they are coming to you first and talking about solutions. It means they do not want to leave you, do not want to hurt you, and hopefully, if you have a problem, they will be patient and wait for you to come around.
At the same time… consider that possibility before getting married. What if that became necessary to maintain your marriage? A spouse is asking for one thing, and that is a extention of the marriage bond, which works both ways. The freedom granted to one is also granted to the other, and how that is expressed is up to them.
Freedom and slavery are two eternities on a continuum. Every time a person becomes subject to another person’s command without question, they accept a bond of slavery and lose freedom. Nobody wants to be a slave these days because of the meaning the word has acquired through cultural atrocity, but we do often want to accept bonds of slavery that limit our freedom in exchange for some benefit that is created through the trust of a bond.
So, before I get too far off topic, I shall intuitively provide a general rule: Do not allow yourself to put so many bonds of slavery on a person that they are more enslaved than they are free, and do not accept so many bonds that would put you in such a situation. Always consider what you are giving up in an agreement of contract and how important that is to you. We all may have different value systems, so you need to know for yourself how important certain freedoms are to you compared to others.
If you are ever going to become more slave than free, do so with great consideration as though it may cost you your life for the master of the bond. An example is military service, or government service in most ways. The master of those bonds are the citizens, and while that is not one person or another, it should be considered as though any person could require the trust of that bond that would take your life. That’s why you should only enter those occupations with the greatest care and sense of responsibility, and you should be rewarded significantly for doing so. However… in times like now, when politicians and government leaders are rife with corruption, those rewards need to be revoked, and the opposite— significant discipline, enforced upon them to reestablish the trust of the bond that has been betrayed.
Forgiveness or death. That is the law. Depending on the crime, if you will not ask forgiveness, the worst should happen. That worst punishment is a reward for their faith in whatever it is they believe in defiance of the justice that is being enforced. That needs to be respected appropriately, even with a dismissal from service if necessary because they cannot be trusted to do their duty if they do not accept the justice they are supposed to be protecting. Likewise if forgiveness is begged genuinely, then be as merciful as possible, while still administering justice as necessary to redress a wrong.
When people do wrong, they need to experience punishment to feel better. Ideally that can occur within a person’s own self with their experience of guilt and resolve to improve themselves. Sometimes though if you commit a sin against a person, you may not feel better until you do something nice for them, incurring some cost to your life through time and energy that you willingly pay. It’s difficult to explain, but I think many people will understand if they have sinned, been sorry for it, and then experienced some sort of suffering that helps reconcile their guilt within themselves.
That sense of punishment is not something that people can judge for other people beyond what is civil law as written. Another reason why maintaining civil law and justice is important. If that is not happening, people will begin to cause pain to others in an attempt to redress some wrong they perceived, and that is not civilization. That is savage anarchy and a downward spiral to total destruction. Courts, law, and order must be maintained with the strictest and most stalwart adherence to the doctrine of beliefs they are established by. There should be no argument as to what the doctrine of those beliefs are, otherwise they never would have been established.
Truth being clear, unblemished, and protected as sacred as the law itself is sacred by being judged with life or death consequences is how justice remains secure. Why do legal courts require a solemn and sacred oath to tell the truth when being questioned? Those who require such oaths must respect truth with the same importance in all places, not only the court room. A judge cannot be allowed to be dishonest when not in court. If that happens, as is normal for humans on occasion, they need to be willing to ask forgiveness like anyone else, but those matters should never be so great as to call them into question in a court, otherwise there is a greater problem in how judges are selected. That goes for all enforcers of the law, including those who write them into the legal doctrine.
That’s part of the slave agreement I mentioned above. Until their duty is over, that is a burden that is willingly accepted, and it always must be willingly accepted, otherwise it will never be secure. Love is a choice. It is never forced. We may feel love, but whether or not we do anything about it is a choice we make. Do you confess your feelings in a letter and give it to your beloved? That is what I am getting at. That has consequences too, even if you are the only one to know about or experience them. Therefore, bonds of slavery, like national service should always be taken willingly as an act of love for those they are intended to serve.
Although we make agreements for certain lengths of time, if a person truly and sincerely wishes to be released from a bond they have contracted, please release them. It is better that you end a bond with charity than allow it to continue with hate if it is no longer a choice. We who serve or served in the military may not want to cut our hair short and trim our mustache within regulations, we may hate doing that, but it is still a choice we accept with free will and that hate is superficial and does not penetrate into the bond itself. It is personality, which is why we may complain about it in the smoke pit, but also consistently get our hair cut on time and not make it a problem for our superiors in command.
That kind of expression is healthy for maintaining our sense of freedom so it is continually nourished even while restrained so much, and it is important for commanders to be aware of to understand the morale and welfare of people they are trusting to fulfil their duty. Do not be too flexible that you cannot hold securely together, but not be so rigid that you cannot bend enough to not break during the greatest pressure.
Truth directly corresponds to trust, and trust is the nourishing power that causes strength to grow from a bond. Strength in all forms, depending on the type of bond. So, I ask one more time, pleading even, as a king begging his subjects: do not blame truth as the cause of your suffering. Do not think truth is the enemy. Truth is the savior, and deception is the enemy. Sometimes we must work with deception, but that should always be at a minimum and never as a form of denial of truth except in the most extreme situations of moral injustice. Such as, escaping a monstrous villain or some other evil that should not have been allowed to become a threat.
If you come to a person with a truth that results in pain, that will nourish trust. If you give a person a deception that eventually results in pain when truth is revealed, that will erode trust.
That’s all I am going to write about that for now.