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Truth

November 4, 2019 - June 25, 2026
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verse, meditation, religious
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What is it that makes people so keen to

believe without sight?

In a world that bores so many stories, a

generation could

recite

even

The most lilliputian part—

yet dare to inquire

about the truth behind Columbus and your—

a

Fraud—

one who detests history as he was taught,

because why think that his story is

any

More than just that—

a tale, a tall one,

who's

unremitting presence towers above the mind

of every

Child that enters this system—

learning about a

history they have not witnessed: before

they can comprehend the elements that make

it up.

Kids are subject to scrutiny for using the

same words as another as an account of

Plagiarism—

subject to placate the owner of

words that were never his.

Teachers meant to teach us—

instead

perpetuate lies in order to conciliate Mann, the

progenitor of a system designed to uniformly

create—

machines.

We are told to be independent, yet taught as a

monolithic unit designed

To work for the system—

an apparatus who will

give its life for the advancement of a world

Whose face it doesn't even know.

The ones who deviate, who deviate—

cast aside as lunatics.

In a world that offers no proof,

the loudest voices

often drown out the truth.