Mar Elias Evangelisation

The Crust 2

If you were truly a friend*, and if I was interesting to you, then I grab your hands begging you to listen to what I have to say**:

Ask yourselves: when you go to Tesco to buy ice-cream, and you put the ice-cream in a bag: do you throw the bag in the bin and eat the ice-cream, or do you throw the ice-cream in the bin and you eat the bag?

And again, ask yourselves: before you eat an apple, do you peel the apple, throw the crust away and put the core on a plate; or do you throw the core away and eat the crust?

This is what I mean when I say that what matters lies inside. And that we should always seek the truth if we wanted to be truly happy. And I can generally say that this applies to everything we see and hear***.

Even though that some people might be in close in proximity to us, but others might be in fact closer to us than they are. So it isn't always about distance, and in this case, distance would be the crust, and the truth isn't as it seems. This is why we shouldn't judge by the crust, we shouldn't judge only by the things that we see, because we are unable to see the core. And what's inside is the truth. And truth has the most value, and it is happiness.

(Reading the footnotes isn't necessary).

* Here, I make a distinction between friends, and the facebook list of 'friends', in the second case, 'friends' might mean the people who we have gotten to know and who live in the same city as we do.

** I am no philosopher nor am I an ethicist. So it is a possibility that I might be making a grave mistake.

*** Of course, I am making a judgement. And there are always special cases, it always depends on the circumstances and conditions.

Everything a human being produces, whether in voice or action, be it a sentence, a poem, a drawing, a painting, a symphony, every word is a judgement.

Every feeling we try to express or every object we try describe is so complicated that it is impossible to describe accurately, or let me say: impossible to judge accurately. This is how unique the world is: no judgement is perfect, and there is always room for improvement.

Theoretically speaking, and because of the complexity of the world, it would take all of the particles of the universe, to accurately describe and judge a single particle at a single instant. Which will change in the second instant, to the third.. etc. So it is impossible for us as human beings to describe things accurately, because we are limited. The best we can do, is to use words to describe things that are way more complex than we imagine them to be.

But be ware: our words can be so accurate that they would be able to describe, say, the majority of the truth, for example when we say: 'this cube is red' and everyone in the room agrees. But when things get more complicated, the truth becomes more difficult to phrase and describe. It becomes more difficult to judge, for example, to judge the behaviour of someone in a certain situation.

The closer to the truth our judgement is, the more right we are.