Poor Truth returned to the well and disappeared forever, hiding her shame. Painting by Jean-Léon Gérome, 1896
LLAW’s NUCLEAR ISSUES & COMMENTS, Sunday, (06/09/2024)
Note: Continuation with Chapter 5 of my in progress novel “El Nuclear Diablo” has been postponed to next Sunday.)
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Our shallow and virtually useless dependence on human law and how easily cast-off treaties and agreements mean nothing between or among rival Nations, and how we depend on something called 'deterrence', which is little more than a mutually applicable governmental political and military money sink paid for by each country’s working taxpayers while we build more nuclear weapons for the sake of ‘deterrence’, constantly followed by more costly and more powerful nuclear weapons. Such inanity cannot last forever, of course.
The Gibran free verse presented below about truths and lies is an excellent existential truth about untruths! Gibran, no doubt unintentionally, clearly demonstrates how our human world functions these days, and his verse is incidentally an axiom of the threats of nuclear war. Our world leaders of nuclear armed Nations, use lies as threats to other leaders of nuclear armed Nations in order to avoid nuclear war out of imposing fear, which the governmental, military, and political worlds of today call "deterrence". So it is that bald-faced lies rather than honest common sense apparently protect us (at least for now) from Armageddon! ~llaw
(Thank you Deborah Hart Yemm for your brilliant post at a time when the world needs it most!)
"The Lie said to the Truth-
Let's take a bath together,
the well water is very nice.
The Truth, still suspicious,
tested the water and found out
it really was nice.
So they got naked and bathed.
But suddenly, the Lie leapt out of the water
and fled, wearing the clothes of the Truth.
The Truth, furious, climbed out of the well
to get her clothes back.
But the World, upon seeing the naked Truth,
looked away, with anger and contempt.
Poor Truth returned to the well and disappeared
forever, hiding her shame.
Since then, the Lie runs around the world,
dressed as the Truth, and society is very happy.
Because the world has no desire to know
the naked Truth."
~ Gibran Khalil Gibran
Truth Coming Out Of The Well Painting by Jean-Léon Gérome, 1896
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An anti-nuclear campaigner has hit out at a claim made by Highland MSP Edward Mountain that people in the region want nuclear power.
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A 1000 MW unit at one of Ukraine's nuclear power plants (NPPs) has been put back into operation after planned maintenance.
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Europe defenceless and unprepared for nuclear war, warns Putin - Yahoo
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Vladimir Putin has warned that Europe is “defenceless” and unprepared for a nuclear conflict with Russia ... war with Russia. “Europe does not have a...
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Vladimir Putin is not going to stop with war in Ukraine, US president Joe Biden said in France, pledging to support Europe against Russia.
The lurking danger of nuclear confrontation - The Sunday Guardian Live
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... nuclear war amidst the Cuban Missile Crisis. That time the nuclear warheads were not as potent as now and the delivery systems were not as precise...
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