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"The truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth."- Stephen Vincent Benét, By the Waters of Babylon

The truth is indeed a hard deer to hunt. Just look at how many religions have cropped up to aid people in that never-ending hunt. And yet, what is truth? Webster says: truth n., 1. Conformity to fact or actuality. 2. A statement proven to be or accepted as true. 3. Sincerity; integrity. 4. Fidelity to an original or a standard. 5. Reality; actuality.

So, when know the definition of truth, but do we really know what it is? The sky is blue. That is a truth, according to the definition. Love hurts. Is that a truth? It more of a subjective truth. That is to say, it may be considered true to one person, and not to another. The sky is green. That's a lie. Or is it? What if the sky is green, and we just don't know it? Suppose our eyes see colors differently than the way they were meant to be seen. Maybe we see the sky as blue instead of green because we assigned it the wrong name. What then?

Eating too much truth at once is indeed hazardous to one's health. What if, suddenly, you were gifted with the knowledge of everything. Suppose the truth of life and death and an afterlife and eternity revealed itself to you all at once. It would be so thoroughly overwhelming, you just might die then and there. What if everything you ever believed in or thought to be true was suddenly proven wrong? It would shock your socks off. You wouldn't be able to accept it at first. You may not ever be able to accept it at all. You may simply go crazy and wind up in a psychiatric ward, in a padded cell, in a strait jacket.