Thursday, January 10, 2013

The Rule of Misinformation

I was so sure this blog would not be political in nature, but the topic today covers everything from raising radishes to the assassination of a President, to understanding Scripture, and everything in between. Obviously I've used a pretty broad and dramatic spectrum to make my point, which is the point. When I was five years old, I had no serious clue about an Abrahamic covenant, the last days, or homesteading. I was five years old when President Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, TX. Although I was virtually clueless about life, I could see a few things that caused me to wonder. How did they know so many details when none of the witnesses saw anything or lived to tell it? It wasn't long until the Zapruder film made the news, but vanished into the secret archives of clandestine history. It all just happened so fast and so curiously "tied up" so to speak. Then the Warren Commission explained unbelievable information to the people of America, and here it is, nearly 50 years later and the only thing we are sure of, is we aren't sure of any of it. I've had the same feelings now, a half century older as the confusing reports just continue to unfold from the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Please bear with me as I attempt to connect these examples.
Of course, we know of the recent tragedy in Connecticut, but what we don't know is what information is actually accurate, as much of it conflicts; and conflicts in ways that do not reconcile. This brings me to my next concern, which is, as the reports are updated, the original information is somehow replaced or lost, but the question of which reports are actually factual remains unanswered.
There have been a number of questions raised about 9/11 in just a decade, and considering the fact we declared war in two countries, destroying property and leaders without any actual connection to the men who accomplished this atrocity still astounds some of us, while others just keep lapping up the "information" or misinformation that may or may not be connected or even accurate.
We continue to have episodic times of questioning the Kennedy assassination, while most of us know, the truth will never be known, at least in our lifetime. According to something I read, the details are locked away until the 75th anniversary, so I'll be eighty and I'm among the youngest who even has a memory of that event. So by the time, the "facts" are sorted and revealed, who will know if those are the facts?
Anyone who is conscious in America knows there is a religious debate going at all times on all topics, and the truth of Scripture becomes "irrelevant" to the focus as the aggressive debates escalate. I do know, some day the truth will be known, but . . . for now we are all simply "happy" to know, nobody has all the information correct and the heated disagreements will continue at least until the Second Coming . . .
Now, my radish parable. If someone gave you 50 radish seeds and told you to plant them in May, and it would take 4 months for them to develop and to water them every day, and wait til you see the flowers on the stems before pulling . . . then someone else said, No, No, that's not right, plant them in June, it only takes 3 months and they must be kept very dry, but the flowers on the stem sounds right . . . then another person came along and said, wait until August, then be sure to pull them before it freezes . . . What would you believe? Exactly! If you had no idea what to actually do, the "too much" conflicting information would be worse than "no information."
So, if a person simply stated, the explanation of President Kennedy's assassination didn't really answer all the questions and all the witnesses were dead in two years, and I don't really know what happened 9/11, but we saw the pictures over and over and over again. And as for Sandy Hook Elementary, all of the families were transplants into the area, and I didn't read about any of the bodies being viewed, and the reporters don't seem to be able to agree on the report . . . but as for radishes . . . Plant them early, and watch for the tops of the produce to barely show above the ground level. When they look "eating size" pull them.
We cannot "untell" misinformation, which causes me great consternation as to why there is so much of it reported.
Doesn't less misinformation make it clearer to at least try to see for ourselves? Do we need so much debated misinformation to exist?
And YHWH answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain . . . but at the end it shall speak, and not lie a Prophet of Holy Scripture

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