Distortions of Culture and Person

This is something difficult to write about, and can easily be misconstrued. As it is, the way humanity can misconstrue things is at the heart of what I am writing about here. In writing of it, though, I would like it to be a candid sort of thing, where we step back and take off our blinders for a moment and consider how it is possible that we can go terribly wrong, even while we may have the best intentions at heart.

Pilate's Pondering: What is Truth?

Most people know who Pontius Pilate is, and that, in the Gospels, it is accounted his line of questioning our Lord about what is truth. Because it's common knowledge, and people can Google 'Pilate' and 'What is Truth?' to find the exact passage, I'm not going to cite it. Plus, this posting isn't about the passage as much as how Pilate represents a particular aspect and attitude within our world, both among believers in God, and those that don't believe.   

On Pleasure and the Examined Life

"[A]s the satisfactions of the body decay, in the same measure my desire for the pleasures of good talk and my delight in them increase. "

- Plato, The Republic, 1.32 [328δ]

In context, this quote is the start of a discourse between Socrates and Cephalus, a wealthy old man of some prominence that defines the conversation of justice in book one of The Republic. One has to wonder who this old man is, and, even further, why it is that, after this definition is made, Cephalus himself, who seeks this conversation, is not heard of within the conversation. However, beyond this note of context, I do not wish to go into further elaboration. This may be saved for another time, and maybe after reading Peter J. Steinberger's political theory piece Who Is Cephalus?, as this question does interest me, and I would like to have a more educated opinion to ponder on before writing more on this. Plus, the question of who Socrates is talking to is not the focus for this writing as much as what is being said in the above written quote.