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optceramic··on Narrative Collapse
> The truth isn't Good or Just, it just kinda awkwardly IS.

To be more specific, it's the truth without a God that "just kinda awkwardly is". It's the absolute truth (which is to say the truth with God actually in the picture) that's without any shadow of a doubt "good and just". The Greek word "LOGOS" provides us with a fantastic description of this idea:

> Logos is a term in Western philosophy, psychology, rhetoric, and religion derived from a Greek word variously meaning "ground", "plea", "opinion", "expectation", "word", "speech", "account", "reason", "proportion", and "discourse".

It's perfectly commensurate with the bible to say that God is truth, logic, reason, speech, order, logos, and that he is good (i.e. not evil).

> In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

> John 1:1-4

We also happen to have free will though (in addition to our sinful, limited human natures), and so he sometimes allows evil to befall us for our own good... Catholic scholar E. Michael Jones has some extremely prescient insights on the "Narrative Collapse" that's currently occurring, and how God can use it all to work for good. :')

> The Coronavirus and the Culture War - E. Michael Jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pKxa_5dIfY

> Logos Rising: A History of Ultimate Reality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTfBPw6M5c

> E. Michael Jones - The History of Logos and the Logos of History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cWZ_6myL8

optceramic··on Narrative Collapse
Neither we nor the narrative "weavers" can contain or control the truth. If collectively we reject the truth in favor of wickedness and lies, then this is what we can always expect to happen in the future. Insomuch as the old narrative was made up of lies, this also all has an a side that's good and just.

> If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

> II Chronicles 7:13-14

> Jesus saith unto him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

> John 14:6