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Yesterday, I had a strange moment.

There are times when the only truth you can believe is one that flies in the face of what a person wants. If Bush were to say "Okay, yes, I exaggerated how dangerous Saddam Hussein was to the US, because he's an evil bastard who killed my father, and would have taken over more land in the middle east if he could have, which would have endangered our oil supply; *NO*, he wasn't a huge danger to the US, but he was still an evil person who deserved to be taken down, okay?" then you could believe it, for the most part. It certainly wouldn't be the self-serving statements that he's made in the past (even if they are true (or if he believes them to be true), they are still self-serving).

And I realized that, in a sense, deciding that I wasn't ready to go through my dedication ceremony was the only 'trusted wisdom' that existed here.

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(no subject)

Yesterday, I had a strange moment.

There are times when the only truth you can believe is one that flies in the face of what a person wants. If Bush were to say "Okay, yes, I exaggerated how dangerous Saddam Hussein was to the US, because he's an evil bastard who killed my father, and would have taken over more land in the middle east if he could have, which would have endangered our oil supply; *NO*, he wasn't a huge danger to the US, but he was still an evil person who deserved to be taken down, okay?" then you could believe it, for the most part. It certainly wouldn't be the self-serving statements that he's made in the past (even if they are true (or if he believes them to be true), they are still self-serving).

And I realized that, in a sense, deciding that I wasn't ready to go through my dedication ceremony was the only 'trusted wisdom' that existed here.

( Read more magical meanderings )