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It's a puzzle... but don't ever try to solve it!

Fri Sep 11, 2009, 9:20 AM
Truth is seldom a complicated matter - its foundation, at least. A single underlying emotion, a single action that triggered others, a simple rule which governs the ensuing events. However, if you do not know the truth, if you have to search for it, it might get a little complicated. You might have a theory about what the plain truth is, but unless you can integrate every single factual observation you have made into that theory, you can not conclude that you are on the right path.

As someone who has learnt to work with scientific methods and as an artist who is deeply interested in the human mind, I am fascinated by those who call themselves the "truthers". I've come to the conclusion that, although many of them seem to be of the opinion that they possess the truth, almost none of them is actually searching for it.

The truther's collection of "evidence" was possibly never even geared towards the assembly of a single, integrated theory. They have put together a vast amount of information they may call "observations" and "facts", even something they call "conclusions", but obviously, they have become mortally afraid of actually putting together their alternative history of 9/11. For this, they would have to weigh their arguments against each other. They would have to discard some pieces of their puzzle which just would not fit together. It would be like throwing stones into their glass house of prized truther artifacts.

I therefore consider the average truther to be literally indoctrinated. He does not search for the truth, he is unable or unwilling to even attempt to connect the dots on his personal mindmap; yet he continues to fill his mind with individual, inconnectible ideas seemingly geared exclusively towards convincing others. Truthers will not "tell the truth"; they communicate in rhetorical questions, possibly with questionable presuppositons and often irrelevant answers, they indulge in show-and-tell photo "evidence", and they like to show you the way by recommending websites and internet movies.

I have even come across the truther idea that it is "simply not their duty to make such a theory". This is, of course, lunacy in a nutshell. You can not search for the truth by collecting thousands of individual pieces, yet never attempt to finish the puzzle. These people have undergone the perfect indoctrination. I would be interested in their individual truths. But they have none to offer; and here my interest must cease.

The truther who chooses among his "facts", among the things he's been fed by his fellow indoctrinators, the truther who weighs arguments and observations, discards the least plausible and eventually tries to assemble his very personal theory about the truth, would stop belonging to his chosen group. Apart from the thought that his theory could hardly be plausible, aggressively advocating such a theory in the truther community might soon earn him the title of a "desinformant".

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:icon2damnedraven:
awesome avatar!

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:iconmiouqueuing:
Ciao Needlebalde, :wave:

Just wanted to say hello & check if you're alright. Then I had to notice that dA probably is the wrong place to go... One question: Why isn't your gallery expanding??? :confused:
You've got some wonderful art up your sleeve. Why keep it in the dark?

Hope to see more from you soon,
greetings from Trier (feel hugged :cuddle:) & CU

Miou B-)

Ps.: Don't have your phone number... :tears:

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TheEndOfTheLine01, May 13, 2007 on DA
:iconneedleblade:
God, I still got a DA account! Actually, I found your message just now, two weeks after you posted. But you should have my number by now. :D

Well... my gallery. Uhm. Although I haven't got that much time, I'm sketching quite a lot. I've got three possible future projects of differing comlexity, yet none of them would yield immediate, postable results. And I can't post too many of my sketches. Most of them are just too bad, while others would give away too much of future projects.

Hopefully, by the end of the year, I will have a decent job - THEN I could focus on posting continuously.

Will try reach you via phone tomorrow. You know why. ;)
:iconfreeport:
BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

Found you!

:D

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:iconneedleblade:
BAWHAYourself!

Found you FIRST!

:D :D
:iconfreeport:
Damn...

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:icontom-turbo:
Wow! Nice artwork! Too bad not so many people have come here yet. I'm gonna watch you so i can check your updates. Keep up the good work!

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:icongreyoculus:
Thanks for your comment. :) Nice gallery so far. I love your figure sketches. <3 Anatomy is something thats really hard for me, so best of luck to you with that. :XD:

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:iconrevanraywan:
Thanks you for all yours comments ! :hug:

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:icondr-shmiko:
Welcome to dA, I hope you like it here.

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