What is truth really?
Does something have to be as straightforward and mathematical as 1+1 =2? Well, I used to think so, and in a specific way I do think so still. Yet I also know for sure that sometimes we definitely can’t be sure. Even that simple thing: 1+1= 2.
How can it be true that the simple meaning of this equation isn’t valid all the time? This is not a word game or pun about the common meaning of 1 + 1 = 2. I mean exactly the same thing I showed 2nd graders when I was briefly a teacher’s aide, when I was 14. We had different color sticks about two inches long, and it was very easy for the seven year-old kids to see how one red stick plus another red stick made 2 red sticks.
Sometimes people in the same situation, in the same boat if you would, are not joined in the win for just some. There are losers. Individuals may lose, suffer, or even pass away as a result of being a loser in the situation. When people simply will not go along with losing, they will make 1+1=2 instead of 1+1=1 or 2+2=3. I’ll say this: if we haven’t figured out how to create a particular win-win, it won’t be that long before we do. Now, “that long” may be a few or even several generations, but in the big scheme of the eventual inevitable win-win, we can’t doubt that it is in our future or our kids’ future.
As long as 2+2 does not always equal 4, we will be motivated and moving forward to change that situation for the better, until we can rely on the truth: 2+2 simply and always is now 4, for sure. We don’t need someone to lose when we can all win, because truth is inevitable, and the truth is a sword.
Bill Custer's thought sphere 