From the moment you were born, you were fed ideas about the nature of reality. You were taught that certain names belong to certain shapes, and that standing on the table and pulling down your pants isn't OK while your family is eating dinner. You were told that the reason you were born was to fulfill God's will. Just as your parents brought you into existence, you will bring your children into existence. You will live as God wants you to live. You are part of God's chosen people, and as such you have the great task of performing his will.
The role that has been given to you ascribes a TRUTH to life. It creates THE TRUTH of life. And if you dare to question this great TRUTH, you are left with nothing. For that is the nature of those enormous weighty TRUTHs. They stand as great monuments, and no matter where you are in life you need only turn your head to know which direction to travel. Yet if you choose to walk away from the chosen path, your monumental rock becomes a sepulchre mourning the death of the person who you used to be.
You have decided that the TRUTH is not in fact true. Yet can a mere moral create a new monument of TRUTH to follow? I think not, for we are simply too limited to create such wonders. You could try, but when you have completed this great task, you will realize that all this time you have merely been building your own tomb.
You are left with the many small truths of the common folk; those who don't claim to be the progeny of kings. But can you bear to live a life without direction? How are you to know if you are traveling the path towards happiness? You must choose small pebbles and with them form the path of your life. Yet can you settle for bits of gravel after once following a mountainous rock?
Alas, that is the trap of TRUTH. Once you have given up the TRUTH, all small truths seem so petty. Your hastily formed path may lead to wondrous things. Yet to find out you must turn from the mountain that is TRUTH. You must risk pain and failure and most of all uncertainty. Do you dare to turn away from the TRUTH?
-I Am The Madman
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