--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > It is simply bizarre to me why someone who has not done these things for so > many years would even care to comment on them. What is the motivation to try > and appear an expert, after so many years of not practicing what you preach > against? What is the pay-off? It is an odd way to behave. >
People like to stand up for truth. What's interesting to me is, why? I got to thinking about this question this weekend when I heard the "This American Life" story about Adrian Schoolcraft, the New York City cop who recorded corruption in his station house. http://schoolcraftjustice.com/ and http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/right-to-remain-silent?act=2] or http://bit.ly/r5SADr Here's a guy who's taking some serious heat for fighting against injustice. Why bother? I think the answer is the same as with any other situation: Sometimes people fight for truth because their artificial, manufactured, ignorance-based worldviews depend on those truths to justify their tenuous existences. And other times people fight for truth because truth is their essence, in the sense that consciousness is our essence and consciousness is true.
