Seeing is believing, if you’re easy to convince. Like
Thomas, I begin to think touch more reliable. Some people see things that are
not there; many see things that are placed there. Wars, invasions, propaganda
may depend on seeing things, present or absent. Ask a migraine subject about
the flashing lights. Don’t begin to contemplate the actions of certain drugs,
legal or not.
Photography
is a language: like English, Chinese or
any tongue it can be used for truth or fiction. If the devil is the father of
lies, photography must be the mother, or at least the sister of lies. Why the sister?
Because like Wisdom, she sees deeper than others, but any deceit plays on
thoughtless unsupported concepts of veracity: seeing is believing. Many believe
wordy falsehoods: even more false pictures.
‘I
saw you,’ said Jesus, of a man in whom there was no deceit. The quality of the
eye is also important. What everyone hopes to see is the truth. Deep, deep in
the understanding is a precondition for identifying what the truth might be. Is
it a ruthless, punishing God? No God? A merciful, availing God? May you see
grace to understand the last.
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