The cold facts of convenient truths

From Gaza to local pub, everything you can say with a real face – or repeat frequently enough, John Longhurst.

Wearing a singlet, shorts and thongs, Bazza grabbed the shaking ship with both hands to get a sip of joining him.

Bazza thanked Schooner who was offered and received a sip:

“So you don’t feel cold, Mick? You’re dressed out for 13 degrees and beach.”

Mick rubbed thorns on my arms:

“Ahhh, Bazza. Because it doesn’t necessarily mean that it is cold because it is 13 degrees outside. I have recently read some philosophy and listen to Garip Podcast. We can separate the facts from assumptions or judgments. We can accept the facts 13 degrees.

Bazza took a heavy sip and shook his head:

“But Mick, you tremble, teeth are chattering, and I say that with the cries everywhere, it is cold.”

Mick clicked and looked at the sky:

“All assumptions, Bazza. My research tells me that I can create a new fact if I repeat something over and over again. While I dressed for the winter month, my clothes are in the early summer, all for using the power to repeat this new truth.”

A long pause before cleaning the mick throat and pointing to a bar stool:

Now, in your world, Bazza, you will probably call this structure a bar stool. You made a judgment or assumption. I say it might be a bar stool, or it can only be a small table. As in modern art, it could even be a statue like Andy Warhol’s official ‘Campbell Soup boxes’. The facts are a structure made of wood. You call it a bar stool because this label was repeated. Continuous repetition turned him into a bar stool.

Bazza’s eyes expanded and their eyebrows cracked:

“This is a bloody bar stool, mick. He’s sitting on people and in a bar.”

The conversation was abandoned and they both looked at the television, the sad images of the children reaching food behind the fences in Gaza.

Bazza swore under his breath:

“Shocking, unforgivable and beggar belief. Netanyahu, how can he claim that there is no ‘hunger’ in Gaza? I think I accepted for the first time with Donald Trump.”

Mick Hold-Tutted:

“Here again, before the trial, we need to go with the facts. Reporter and camera operator chose a scene. It can be caused by factors other than hunger.”

Bazza shook his head in disgust, took empty cups, went to the bar and returned with a full sailor and empty person, and placed the empty school in front of Mick:

“Here, Mick. The truth is, it’s an empty Schooner glass. I want you to repeat it again and again again. In fact, thanks to the repetition power, you will have a permanent repairman, so it will now have a new reality.

Bazza turned and Mick began to talk to the Gamici glass.

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John Longhurst is an old industrial defender and political consultant. He is currently working as an English and history teacher on the southern coast of NSW.

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