NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, AN EMPTY CANTEEN)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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"...Know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.”
~ The Wisest Person Who Ever Lived
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There are two components to that statement, but nearly everyone who quotes it leaves out the first component which renders the quote almost useless.
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It is only when you "KNOW" the Truth that the Truth can make you free! By itself, the Truth will do you about as much good as will a motorcycle without wheels or an empty canteen in a waterless desert.
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Unless you first put water in the canteen before you venture out into the dry desert, you are going to die there, lugging a useless container with you, adding insult to injury.
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Think of your mind as your canteen. Fill it with water -- "Living Water" (aka the Truth) -- and then you can face and survive the heat of this world's desert. That "Living Water" already exists, but until you fill your canteen with It, It will do you no good.
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["What is truth?", asked the man who commanded that The Wisest Person Who Ever Lived be murdered.]
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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