those things most vehemently suppressed are often closest to the truth."
Those who think it is easier to deceive than to speak and live truth are hopelessly confused. When a small child responsible for cleaning the family bathroom attempts to deceive a vigilant parent with a half-done job, the child soon realizes that faking certain jobs is harder than completing them. The classic idiom "to cover one's tracks" is a great example of this; for it is well known that it is easier never to go where you are not permitted, than it is to attempt to cover one's tracks in the snow after having trespassed.
Thus it is with Truth. Those who seek most vehemently to suppress and hide it, demonstrate their fear of it. Fear has been discussed, and when it is based upon an object of Truth, it is true wisdom, and becomes a tool of elucidation towards life. Yet, fear when based upon an object of truth is merely sagacity, and can still lead men to foolishness, which leads (as has been previously determined) to death. Fear of the truth cannot be rational, for if it was truth, there would be no need for fear; reality is not so fearful as mystery. Conversely, love of a lie cannot be rational, for since it is a lie, there can be no love; love must have an object. It is clear to all liars that their love of the lie is irrational; for it is merely a cover for a self-absorbed barathrum.
The object however, is to show that lies which are championed demonstrate the most prideful and arrogant works of fear are suppression and denial. Those who deny the presence of something with their very life -just as those we have discussed who hate another with their very life- are defined by that thing. Further, those who suppress something with their whole life, show their whole life to defined by the reality of such.
This does not mean that the man who lives his entire life under a wrong impression (that pigs can fly, for instance) is an exception to this reality; it merely means that he has believed a lie, and while not necessarily suppressing the truth, has stepped outside of reality's protective wall -reason- and has become susceptible to the many unreasonable and irrational beliefs which roam about outside that wall. Those who seek to suppress anything, no matter how ridiculous, remove the possibility for reason. When reason has been removed from an equation, it is easy to preclude the 'inconvenient' truth, and demonstrate one's predispositions and biases.
This should be applied in two areas:
Those who teach: Never avoid a question which seemingly has no answer. Answers are determined by the question; not the question by the answer. Any variable can change the answer, but the question will remain the same, regardless of the answer given. Further, never answer a question which has not been asked. Answers which are given before a question has asked only discourages the questioner's inquisitive growth, and precludes certain questions; destroying further creativity in learning.
Those who learn: Never ask a question simply because you have heard it before. Questions which are needlessly repeated are ignored and sometimes lost. A question can always have power, as long as its variables have been matched in application to the questioner and the answerer. Questions which have no application are 'academic' and by nature, do not increase knowledge, merely institutionalize it. Seek to ask questions for which you fear there is no answer. Those are the questions with power, and when asked can unleash a force of intellectual grandness which could only be matched by God's miraculous answer to Israel's cries for deliverance at the side of the Red Sea.
When recognized as a potential candidate for reality, any fact (in its fullest ability) will itself prove its relation to Truth. And, as we have already discovered; the relation to truth is determined in part by the perspective location of the fact. And thus, any perspective location which seeks to suppress another perspective location demonstrates itself as false; since Truth maintains within itself the power of reality. Only those things fearful of being discovered (of having their tracks uncovered) will suppress facts. Observe around you those things and people which seek to suppress facts; those are the lies and liars, for they are fearful of this fact: Truth Will Out.
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