#truth to power

[belongstolove]

#stopwesternimperialist #endtheseigeongaza #westerngenocide #zionistsareterrorists #truth to power #ceasefirenow #free palestine #boycott israel #endisraelsgenocide #genocide #israel is a terrorist state #warcrimesingaza #americancrimes #capitalism #anti capitalism #antimperialist #palestinewillbefree #palestine #ceasefire gaza #help gaza #gazaunderattack #united states #united nations #stopfundingterror

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"If god and Satan existed, which of course they don't, I would definitely admire Satan.

Having the guts to stand against the 'most powerful being in existence' is an admirable quality.

On the other hand, being the 'most powerful being in existence' while hurting/killing/punishing feeble human beings, is an abhorrent quality."

And to top it all off, this 'most powerful being' made its own fulfilment conditional on receiving validation from the feeble humans. And gets mad when it doesn’t receive it from people who don’t even know it’s there. What a stupid creature.

#truth to power #satan #christianity #petty god #religion #religion is a mental illness

[speaker-of-the-void-cats]

"Now," Eris demanded, her uncovered eyes glowing fiercely. "Tell us how to follow the Witness."

"Tell you?" Savathûn frowned, her voice edged with disappointment. "I already showed you."

Ikora leapt to her feet, roaring Void energy distorting the air around her. She took a measured step toward Savathûn.

"No tricks, no riddles, no lies twisted around the truth," she said, her voice firm. "Tell us now, or I don't have any reason to let you leave here alive."

Savathûn slowly drew herself to her full height and grinned down at Ikora, spreading her wings wide. "Eris may have managed an interesting sword logic stunt, but I have lost none of my power." She began to hover, her talons dragged across the ground as she floated toward the Warlock. "You're in no position to stop me."

The Guardian rose from Eris's side.

"I am," they said.

Savathûn paused for a long moment, her ossified face unreadable.

Finally, she sighed.

"Just when you were starting to impress me," she said as she closed her wings and stooped to Ikora's height. Immaru bobbed awkwardly to keep level with her.

"We both need to stop the Witness, and to that end, I have given you what I promised," she said slowly. "You will find you have it when you are ready. Like Eris said: our bargain is complete. There's no need for drama."

Here at the center, I lie to you the truth. You have everything you need to know it, but I will give you a clue, as the duelist gives warning before she draws. The answer you seek to the Dreaming City is simple, not complex.

JALAAL >> REY

How is anyone supposed to arrive at this by studying the Truth to Power text?

REY >> JALAAL

Very easily. This is why I believe I'm right. This is the analogy our Guardian analysts failed to grasp. Look at the structure of the text.

At first, Eris is real. Then we learn Eris's voice is a deception by Medusa. Then we learn Medusa is nested inside Quria. Then we learn Quria is a fiction of Dûl Incaru. And at the center, Savathûn reveals herself to be the parent of it all.

We are headed inward, as if moving from parent to child universe.

Then we proceed in reverse. Savathûn is revealed to be a fiction of Dûl Incaru. Dûl Incaru a simulation by Quria, and so on.

So in the end, Truth to Power moves outwards.

Just as Savathûn plans to move. In from our universe and out to the Distributary—

Or out from our universe to its parent.

JALAAL >> REY

Oh. I see. I see! A literary structure like that is called a chiasmus, and chiasmus means "crossing point"! Like a wormhole or a portal! It was hidden in plain sight.

But then we must act urgently to stop this! Savathûn cannot be allowed to depart our universe into some reality superordinate to ours—

But now you'll tell me: so what if she does? What can she do to us out there?

REY >> JALAAL

It's all beside the point anyway. She may have already accomplished what she wanted. Some damn fool Guardian carried out her instructions on a dare. I don't know why she wanted a powerful Guardian to destroy her daughter in the ruins of Mara's throne. But she wanted it to happen. And I'm guessing the effects weren't felt here.

I think she got a glimpse into a world above our own. Maybe even a kind of influence.

Of course, Savathûn is still with us. She walked among us as Osiris; she tricked us into removing her worm; she hasn't vanished into some higher reality. I do not think she built a wormhole into another universe and walked through it—although her intrigues with the Nine have focused on creating singularities from dark matter.

She keeps a lot of irons in the fire, our Witch Queen.

I think, rather, that she sent instructions on how to mantle her.

I think the whole Truth to Power manuscript is an ova, a manual on how to behave like her, how to describe her through action and thought so completely that you become her and thus give birth to her.

It's done in the Books of Sorrow, to recall her from true death. It might be done again.

So a part of her is out of the jar. Slithering into that other world.

Let's hope no one there has given birth to her yet.

JALAAL >> REY

Maybe you're the one who has it all backwards.

The Light is noncomputable. It can't be simulated in conventional physics. That proves that any universe with the Light cannot be a simulation. Our universe can contain simulations, but it cannot be one.

Maybe this other world Savathûn's touched is subordinate to ours after all. Maybe they are the ones who exist in our minds. A dream of a purely material world, adrift in the true cosmos of Light and Dark.

Poor frail dreams. The things she'd do to them…

#truth to power #in|spire| #the dreaming cities #season of the witch #destiny 2 #destiny the game #destiny #destiny2 #destinythegame #d2 #savathun #lightfall

[ororosmunroe]

So uh I haven't been on Tumblr for a variety of reasons but I just want to make it abundantly clear:

Free Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Tigrey, Armenia, and anyone else who is facing oppressive systems.

Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism will not be allowed on this page.

Please follow the BDS boycott list, the people who created it did the research. Targeted Boycott for MAX impact. Pressure Amazon, Disney, and other big corporations to divest from the Settler Occupation. Also, be kind to yourself when trying to find alternative products/services. You are doing the best you can in a fucked up system.

Rethink getting a new device just for the fun of it. If you need to get a new phone think of going refurbished or research ethically produced phones like Fairphone. Again, you are doing the best you can in a fucked up system.

Call your Reps and demand a ceasefire. HOUND THEIR ASSES.

And finally,

You are doing the best you can in a fucked up system. Take heart and keep fighting! Every bit helps!

#truth to power #boycott

[thethirdman8]

Jeffrey Sachs Interview - The Biggest Mistake Imaginable.

I am of the opinion that none of the current conflicts need to be happening. I am also throughly disappointed with the New York Times and the Washington Post's failure to report the truth about these insane wars. We absolutely need an adversarial press asking difficult questions.

#jeffrey sachs #truth to power #the actual truth #nato enlargement #Youtube

[potuzzz]

The difference between me and all my competition is I don't know when to give up. I bathe in Ls, dry off with Ls and dress up in some Ls to go work at the Bigg Poppa Ls Major L Factory. They pay $12/hr and do not give a fuck about your schedule request. This ain't no no salmon, these Ls are loud. I'll take 1000 Ls to pull out one W from the muck, a W that is just four Ls that toppled into one another. BUT, if it still looks like a W enough for me to get reimbursed inside the Clout Rectangle? I'll bounce town before they realize they got lemon'd. The gig economy is life, now. Don't let the undertow suck you down. We are all falling. Just fall sideways, and maybe, just maybe, you'll live to play slots enough that you can fall up.

#falling up #astral projection #schizoposting #hopeposting #inspiration #big L #poem #prose #poetry #rap #rapping #channeling #nah nah nah #truth to power #the only power ive got #me #facts #factsmatter #wheres the lie #137

[drdamiang]

SHAME

SHAME

I sought out

Shelley (great

political poet)

to help me

with my poem

had to battle my

way to the garden gate

and along the garden path

to avoid his wife's

deadly creatures, Doctor

Frankenstein having

restored them

from thing called death

to thing called life

the latter, at this time,

for beings deemed inferior

infinitely preferable

in the minds of those

for whom they forever

constitue

a serious problem

life best reserved for

the good and the rich

and so, ushered in,

I did speak with

the great firebrand

asking of him, quite simply,

that he

do show me the way

to convert pen traversing paper

or fingers attacking keyboard

into a manner of address

designed to inspire

and, yes, shame

shame, shame

particularly that shame

that is due

for having no shame.

#poem #poetry #political #truth to power #Percy Bysse Shelley #Mary Shelley #Frankenstein

[burntundertones]

open your eyes.

#burntundertones #palestine #israel #gaza #genocide #truth to power #educate yourself #twisted lies

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

#Truth to power #Harvard Business Review #me too

[57hz]

I'm going to say it because everyone else seems to be too fucking afraid to acknowledge the truth: e-bikes are just electric mopeds.

#text #truth to power #e bike

[yeltsinsstar]

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#youtube #juice media #humour #satire #australia #straya #nsw #new south wales #state election #truth to power

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who 'speak truth to power' but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power." -- Thomas Sowell

Right now, speaking truth to power means restating basic fundamental truths in the face of people who who created an entire edifice of fraudulent scholarship for the purpose of denying them.

#Thomas Sowell #academic corruption #truth to power #religion is a mental illness

[speaker-of-the-void-cats]

"You've no idea how fortunate you are to be my chosen. You hold the flesh of a god in your hands. You are mere steps away from our salvation. Only Light[1] and Dark[1] together[x2] can unlock my way back into your world."

K. You bring Medusa before Rahool. "Ah," he sniffs, "another battle trophy? Pre-Collapse, post-Foreboding, a covert intelligence designed to watch over a high-risk colony mission. Allow me to decrypt her for you." He issues you several tokens, a rare-quality fusion rifle, a shader, and a letter. The letter reads "Achieve Light[+Dark] Level 999[x2] and defeat Dûl Incaru in a one-person fireteam to unlock the true ending of the Dreaming City."

"That's it... keep going..."

#trace the vermicular path #destiny 2 #destiny the game #destiny #destiny lore #destiny2 #destinythegame #d2 #forsaken #season of the wish #fifteenth wish #truth to power

[j-august]

There are few more remarkable examples of an intelligence agency telling truth to power than [Vernon] Kell's decision to inform Chamberlain that Hitler considered him an 'arsehole'.

Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm

#quote #quotation #Christopher Andrew #The Defence of the Realm #Vernon Kell #Hitler #Chamberlain #truth to power

[thethirdman8]

Jeffrey Sachs' speech at the UN

The expressions on his audience speaks volumes in this 10 minute speech.

#united nations #professor jeffrey sachs #truth to power #Youtube

[thebrandondowning]

HANNAH ARENDT (2022), 3 ½" x 6 ½"

#poetry #collage #comics #hannah arendt #truth to power