Truth, Power And Scammers

Once a person made a claim that the reason for seeking truth is seeking power. This is something that a scammer might say. What she was actually saying was that people should be ignorant and be prey to con men and hucksters. And that is not a rightful set of values to have.

What I have found out is that God would not reveal to us everything that He is, or else we will try to be God ourselves. What He would do is reveal to people whatever they need to know in order to do His will for them. Many people would then make the mistake of equating what they have been revealed with the whole of God. And if they persist in their errors, God would reveal something else to someone else in order to correct that error.

So, for example, the Victorians thought that God was about morals, but they forgot about compassion. At one point God appears to have revealed Himself to William Booth, who then started the Salvation Army. The biggest point of that appears to have been that God wanted to show that He was not only a God of righteousness but also a God of compassion.

A similar thing happened with Bill Wilson, the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous. People at that time treated drinkers like trash; and God wanted to give these people back their humanity. So He revealed Himself to Bill Wilson, who started an organization that keeps millions of people sober while also teaching them to be better people.

In 1970s people believed in peace and love; but many of them acted in unrighteous ways. So it appears that God has inspired the Christian Right to remind people that He was not only a God of love but also a God of righteousness.

Once again, I do not anticipate God revealing everything that He is. When people think that they know all of God, they start trying to become God themselves and turn into the likes of Stalin. So He would reveal to select people whatever is necessary for them to do His will. And if they make the mistake of equating what they have been revealed with the whole of God, He will reveal something else to somebody else to correct that error.

Is the interest in truth driven by the interest in power? It can be driven by any number of things, the most important one of these being seeing through the rackets around oneself in order to see things clearly. What one does with that knowledge is up to oneself. What I have done is see through these rackets and communicate the understanding to people who need it. I am not running for political office. I seek to correct wrong things that are there.

Now it may very well be valid that some forms of knowledge be hidden from some people. However in no way is it valid to attack the seeking of truth. Once again, there can be any number of reasons why someone may be a truth-seeker; and while some may very well be driven by power there are any number of others such as myself who are driven by wisdom and by the interest in seeing through lies.

So it is time that virtues be seen as virtues and flaws be seen as flaws. Making people prey to scammers is not a rightful value. Seeing through falsehoods and arriving at actual wisdom is. And it is time that ideologies of scammers be seen for what they are and be replaced with things of actual wisdom and rightfulness.