What You Think You Know, You Don't

April 3, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is truth.

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A philosophical poem about the need for skepticism, especially when dealing with the truth about oneself:

What you think you know, you don't,

And what you don't, you do,

If you know that you don't know

What you think is true.

From inside out, you're pretty sure

That you are who you are.

But then, from outside in, some comment

Leaves a door ajar.

You cannot help but take a peek

At what your life has been

To someone else, a person whom

You now can glimpse within.

And there you are a stranger to

Yourself, for what you see

Is nothing like the person who

You thought that you would be.

So who are you? What's the truth

Of you? You'll never know.

For there is simply nothing, nothing,

Nothing simply so.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Truth

4/1: Facts Are Less Reliable than Dreams

4/2: The Truth Is Far Too Truthful

4/3: What You Think You Know, You Don’t