For a whole year, no one seemed to notice the slight change we made on the borrowed quotation from some unknown source about TRUTH that is printed on the scroll that acts as the banner that greets the visitor who purposely or accidentally lands on this website. The original 2nd line was about “laziness that is content with half-truth.”
We discovered this quote way back in the 1990s when we were still diehard Christians frantically propagating Christianity’s version of truth to “save souls”. One of us first spotted it on a decorative wall hanging and shared it with the others; thankfully ELZ@S6K had written it down because most of us had forgotten about it.
When we reorganized as Sinai 6000, we remembered the quotation and fortunately ELZ still had it in her notebook. Why did we change the original quote, would “Source Unknown” surface to slap our wrists for deviating from the original? Whoever penned the lines definitely expressed our sentiments 100%, and we are so grateful to “Anonymous” whoever he or she is. Actually, the original wall hanging attributed it as “An Old Hebrew Prayer” which would have fitted so neatly in our reorganized belief system . . . .but after googling it, all claims indicated “Source Unknown.”
Now why change “half truths” to “old truths”? Because it perfectly reflects the Sinai 6000 journey from “New Testament” truth— which to us is “old” (although “Half Truth” could have fitted just as well)—to “Old Testament” truth which is the original OLD but was NEW to us. Follow?
It is indeed the right prayer to grace our banner, for that is what Sinai 6000 is all about: the unquenchable quest for Truth. If a visitor does not retain what he has read in our many articles, we hope this ‘Truth quote’ will continue to linger in his soul and as a result, he will pursue for himself, from all sources, as much as he can learn about God and man and the life we are commanded to live. There are many “Truth” sources to choose from but a seeker will eventually learn to be discerning, know what to swallow and spit out.
Will we ever arrive at the whole truth and nothing but . . .? Most likely not. For now, we’re keeping it simple and we really did choose the best quote for this website’s and our S6K purpose.
Just look at the other choices we could have taken, none reflect us to a T:
- Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. —Albert Einstein
- Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.—Buddha
- I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.—Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.—Winston Churchill
- In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.—George Orwell
- The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.—Winston Churchill
- There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.—Buddha
- Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.—Mahatma Gandhi
- Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.—Mark Twain
- To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.—Charles Darwin
- An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.—Mahatma Gandhi
- All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.—Friedrich Nietzsche
Had we not ended up choosing this perfect quotation, we might have chosen the Pilate quote which is a rewrite of the Gospel verse by Tim Rice, lyricist of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Jesus Christ Superstar”:
“And what is ‘truth’?
Is truth unchanging law?
We both have truths.
Are mine the same as yours?”
[Pilate: ‘Quid est veritas?’ – Gospel Truth? – 1]
NSB@S6K
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