Let Us Begin
This website is about life. It’s about life in a world of death. In some very strange and unexpected ways there is a growing consensus it the populace that death may well be better than life. Of course, this preference for death is currently increasing among people who are facing either the prospect of suffering from some incurable disease or simply dissatisfied with a child that resides in the womb.
This site is also about truth. Life and truth belong together. Part of the reason why people are easy with death is because truth is being systematically targeted for elimination in the world. Hence, “Truth in the Crosshairs.”
We inevitably come face to face with reality whenever we discuss truth. A good working definition of truth is the reality we cannot deny, unless we decide to be a stupid person. To deny what is real is stupid, or perhaps insane. I would go with stupid. Insanity is clinical; stupidity is a worldview held by people who refuse to believe what is real. Stupidity isn’t clinical. It is pathetic.
This is also a reading intensive website. It’s too bad that I do not have a skill set to turn this website into a video game or some other mindless allurement that has nothing to do with reading.
Most people seem to be programed to yawn at the very sight of words on a page. I don’t know how that happened to them. I’m not talking about preschoolers who don’t know the alphabet or the visually impaired or people whose brains are wired in such a way that makes it impossible to read what someone has written. I’m talking about people who simply decide that reading is not for them. Reading is not their “thing.” If reading is not your “thing,” don’t waste your time on anything that might make you better than you are right now.
When I was a kid there was a commercial on television that solicited funding for an educational program called Reading Is Fundamental (RIF). Well, reading is far from fundamental in the world we live in today. Perhaps I should say that the problem isn’t that reading is not fundamental; it is fundamental. The problem lies not with reading but with the people who try very hard not to read anything at all.
The hope is that the work involved in reading what someone has written will inspire us to think purposefully about life, truth and reality. My hope is that the subject matter of this website has its own inherent appeal. Perhaps my hope isn’t realistic in a culture that is dominated by death, falsehood, and unreality.