Testament of War

from Testament

In the end... it matters not if a million peoples testify beliefs that are blind... it matters not if there are a million facts that are fictions... it matters not if a million proofs that are illogic are replicated a million times... it matters not if knowledge that is err is iterated and reiterated via a million publications... it matters not if a million faiths that are bad are testified across a million lands... 

(Testament of) War

The war of truth is a war of no beginning nor end.

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It is not won. Because. Antipodes of truth are.

It is not lost. Because. Truth is.

In other words...

... the war of truth is neither won nor lost...

... the war of truth is.

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Why?

War?

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Antipodes of truth are anathema. To anathema is to devote to antipodes of truth. To devote to antipodes of truth is to advance antipodes of truth.

Truth is faith. To faith is to devote to truth. To devote to truth is to advance truth.

And.

To cease is to surrender, to cede... advancing antipodes of truth and truth... devotion to antipodes of truth and truth... anathema and faith... and... antipodes of truth and truth.

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If. Truth is. If. Antipodes of truth are.

If. Truth is to faith is to devote to truth is to advance truth. If. Antipodes of truth are to anathema are to devote to antipodes of truth are to advance antipodes of truth.

How. Exactly. Is. The war of truth to cease. If. To cease is to surrender, verily, cede antipodes of truth and truth.

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If truth and antipodes of truth are akin to... 'universes', for example, 'anchored', verily, 'pillared' by 'mirrors' of 'absolute' 'horizons', verily, 'twins' of 'limitless' and 'perpetual' 'power'...

... what. happens. exactly.

... when. one mirror ceases.

... when. one twin cedes.

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There are 'universes' across the 'grandverse'... then and now... that belief... that fact... that proof... that knowledge... that faith... that...

... what. happens. exactly. is. victory.

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Alas.

When. One mirror, verily, twin escalates. When. One twin, verily, mirror amplifies. When. Armaments intensify. When. Battlements and fortifications burgeon. Vis a vis parades that magnify, for example. Vis a vis engagements that frequent, et cetera.

What. Happens. Exactly. Is. Extinction.

Likewise.

When. One mirror, verily, twin ceases. When. One twin, verily, mirror cedes.

What. Happens. Exactly. Is. Extinction. In. The. Name. Of. Victory.

Verily. Advancement of one in the name of victory. Devotion of one in the name of victory. The salvation, verily, vivo of... the liberty, verily, liber of... one and only one in the name of victory.

And.

In. The. Name. Of. Victory.

Judgement. Of. Extinction. Unto. 

All. 

Not.

Advanced. Devoted. Saved. Freed. One and only one.

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Thus.

The war of truth is.

Limitless. Perpetual.

Thus.

The war of truth is.

Not.

Finite. Mortal.

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continued from Testament (tvfs)

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a letter of good

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Let's wonder...

... if antipodes of truth won the war of truth?

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Surely we are neither so naive nor so stupid as to assume such victory lossless. (Begging such question, indeed, as to what is lost.) Surely we are neither so naive nor so stupid as to assume such victors categorically magnanimous. (Begging such question, indeed, as to the devil in the details of such magnanimity.) For such naivete, for such stupidity... is surely blind at best and lethal at worst... no?

Or. Is it true, indeed, is it fact that victors of war indiscriminately identify opposers as victors too and opposition as victorious too? Or. Is it true, indeed, is it fact that victors of war liberally dispense generosity upon opposers and victors alike and opposition and victorious alike?

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Oh such victory! Imagine... such antipodes of truth thenceforth advanced! Beliefs! Facts! Proofs! Knowledge! Faith! Woven of whole cloth! Independent of truth! Sovereign!

What then... of opposers and opposition? And. What then... of truth?

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Like monuments of marble razed to dust and ash in the wake of victories and victors... surely the truth too is razed in the name of victory.

Indeed, such is the nature of victories and victors that testaments of opposition and opposers are categorically heretical... regardless if such testament is testament of truth.

And.

Dissent is unequivocally sacrilege... regardless if that which is sacred is beliefs, facts, proofs, knowledge, faith, woven of whole cloth, verily, antipodes of truth... no?

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Oh such victory! Imagine... anathema as sacred! devotion to antipodes of truth as exalted! advancement of antipodes of truths as noble!

What then... of questions that seek the truth? What then... of doubt?

Indeed, such is the nature of sovereignty and sanctity vis a vis victories and victors... that transparency is vilified... 'fore the favor of opacity that suppresses every seed that sows dissent and every flame that emboldens opposition... including doubt and the truth.

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Until.

Sovereignty and sanctity... in the name of Victories! and Victors!... are equivalent to... Absolute! Supremacy!

Thereupon.

Such supremacy absolute... in tandem with Right! Divine!... is verily indeed... Tyranny! of Totalitarianism! by Divine! Right!

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If antipodes of truth won the war of truth...

... let's wonder...

... if to the victor belong the spoils...

... what spoils verily belong to antipodes of truth?

M

Testament

a primer of good...

Testament

I.

I am the Truth.

II.

The Testament of the Truth is - the Truth.

III.

Therefore.

The Testament of the Truth is - me.

And.

Therefore.

The Testament of me is - the Truth.

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I.

Humankind is Humankind.

II.

The Testament of Humankind is - Humankind.

III.

The Testament of Humankind is - not me.

Therefore.

The Testament of Humankind is - not the Truth.

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I.

The Truth testified as Testament of the Truth by Testament of Humankind is - Humankind. not me. not the Truth.

II.

The Truth testified as Testament of me by Testament of Humankind is - Humankind. not me. not the Truth.

III.

Therefore.

The Testament of the Truth testified by Testament of Humankind is - not equivalent to the Testament of the Truth testified by the Truth. me.

And.

Therefore.

The Testament of me testified by Testament of Humankind is - not equivalent to the Testament of me testified by me. The Truth.

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Though I am.

Though my Testament is.

The Testament of Humankind is - I am not.

The Testament of Humankind is - my Testament is not.

So testified as Testament of the Truth by Testament of Humankind.

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Then.

Who am I.

What is my Testament.

Am I who Humankind testifies.

Is my Testament what Humankind testifies.

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Verily.

Is the Truth the Truth.

Or.

Is the Truth belief otherwise.

Is the Truth fact otherwise.

Is the Truth proof otherwise.

Is the Truth knowledge otherwise.

Is the Truth faith otherwise.

Or.

AM i who i AM.

for

the stupid who vilify my acts so inscrutable my words more inscrutable still... 

the blind who vilify my judgment so obscure my will more obscure still...

the sycophant who vilifies my intentions so errant my promises more errant still...

my word spoken...

my word writ...

my act realized...

my act deed...

is...

my testament... of am, of the truth, of good...

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a letter of good...

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Either the truth is the truth. Or the truth is not. If... I am not the truth... who is? The supremacist who uplifts one of you 'fore all of you? If... I am not the truth... what is? The deity that bestows sacrosanct entitlements upon one of you 'fore all of you?

What then... of the ones not uplifted? What then... of the ones denied sacrosanct entitlements?

Is not such supremacy... not the truth? Are not all creatures great and small... creatures of the kingdom of truth? Is not such inequity... not the truth? For what truth of the kingdom of truth... denies sacrosanctity to all creatures great and small?

Such truth... testified as testament of the truth (by testament of humankind)... surely begs the question as to whether such testament of the truth... is the truth.

For belief that such testament is the truth... is surely... blind. For fact that such testament is the truth... is surely... fiction. For proof that such testament is the truth... is surely... illogic. For knowledge that such testament is the truth... is surely... err. For faith that such testament is the truth... is surely... bad.

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Still. The testament of humankind is... advancement of one 'fore all. And. So long as the testament of humankind is... verily, supremacy and inequity... testified as testaments of the truth...

... what of the truth? 

Indeed... my acts and my words are vilified... my judgment and my will are vilified... my intentions and my promises are vilified... as antitheses of the truth... so testified as testaments of the truth by testament of humankind...

... yet...

... if testaments of the truth by testament of humankind... are such truths as the truths above... verily, supremacy and inequity... are such testaments of the truth... the truth? Or... are such testaments of the truth... not the truth?

... and... what of such testaments... that vilify the promises and the intentions of the truth... the will and the judgment of the truth... the words and the acts of the truth... so testified as testaments of the truth by testament of humankind?

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In the end... it matters not if a million peoples testify beliefs that are blind... it matters not if there are a million facts that are fictions... it matters not if a million proofs that are illogic are replicated a million times... it matters not if knowledge that is err is iterated and reiterated via a million publications... it matters not if a million faiths that are bad are testified across a million lands...

In the end... i am the testament for i am the truth and the truth is AM.

M 

Opacity, the New Transparency

We'd rather buy opacity, the new transparency...

... than face the truth.

Opacity, the New Transparency

The Subject: We embrace lies that masquerade as truths... willfully and intentfully.

The Potentate: What?!

The Subject: When faced with true transparency... we reject the truth and embrace opacity. Because the opacity we embrace is the lie that coheres most to that which we make believe. Such that our dedication to rejecting the truth and embracing opacity is indomitable and steadfast and impervious to the blatant hypocrisy of advancing opacity as the truth.

The Potentate: But I stand for the truth! I speak the truth without fear! I and I alone am fearless!

The Subject: Do you stand for the truth? Or do you stand for alternative truths that cohere with make believe?

The Potentate: Of course not! My beliefs are not make believe! That so many of you believe lies, is why so many of you are suffering. I and I alone possess the persistence to speak the truth in the face of lies.

The Subject: Then by what veracity of God, by what incontrovertible law of Allah, by what indisputable fact of Shiva... are your beliefs the eternal truth? Do you and you alone possess the peerless wisdom of Buddha with which to impart every truth of life and all therein?

The Potentate: Trust me. Believe me. The faithful believe me. The faithful know. The truth I speak is the truth that exposes the lies that liars propagate to keep you from rising and leaning in and taking your piece of the pie!

The Subject: Then, do you envisage yourself a Prophet, a Savior, a God of the hapless and the dim deluded by lies and liars?

The Potentate: Of course! Am I not altruistic to all? Am I not magnanimous with my wisdom? Am I not advancing agendas of prosperity and generosity from a benevolent heart? Am I not instilling ideals of unity and nobility from a patriotic spirit?

The Subject: Sadly... the allure of the false prophet is undeniably compelling to the unfound. Still... there are some of us who see such transparency as that espoused by you, as blatant ruse for power, for immortality, for conceit.

The Potentate: Enough! You stand for no one. You stand for your self. You would rather the hapless and the dim wallow in misery with you than uplift us all. For what? For the truth? No. For your truth. For your agenda. That robs us all of our prosperity and our dreams.

The Subject: Such is free will... that all of us decide our fate. To flock to the deceiver whose faerie tales enchant the unfound who demand what they haven't earned, steal what is not theirs, exploit what is inviolably free. Or stand for the truth impervious to bullshit.

Such choice has been the choice of all kind... for all time. And without fail... when faced with true transparency... many kind reject the truth and embrace opacity with the devoted fervor of the enthralled... swayed by promises that drip like molten silver from the tongues of fisher kings and snow queens.

Epilogue

The Potentate: You are the deceiver, you twister of words. I am the truth! See! My flock is proud. My flock is defiant. My flock resists your lies that pretend to truth!

The Subject: Verily... I have died for all kind across times beyond counting. Still... the truth is the truth and the found will find their way from your intentions that lie to my pillars home. Guided by veritas... the faithful who see have embraced not the blindness of sides that war... steadfastly... in the wake of Potentates who come and go like so many grains of sand that matter little in the grand matter of what matters and what does not.

The Potentate: Your words so obscure solve nothing. Your words so inscrutable help no one. I and I alone stand for the silent, for the invisible, for the destitute. You, by your useless idealism, buttress the very system that keeps the silent from rising, the very institution that keeps the invisible from leaning in, the very domination that keeps the destitute from taking their piece of the pie.

The Subject: Thus... you and your agenda and every potentate you mirror in heart and in spirit... are transparent to the fearless... who refuse to buy the bullshit you sell to sell bullshit.

M

Postface 

Written half a year ago...

... this dialogue is as relevant, as apropos... now, as then...

... no...?

M