and so the silly odd man that "hate" had named "som" walked a little further and approached fear, and stopped about about 40 paces from fear and
said:
"i am just a silly odd man in the nude armed only with my truth which i have adopted from all i know to present it to you so that we may see if it is
compatible with your truth. be not afraid of me, please, i beg you, fear me not for there is no reason for you to fear me.
my dearest fear: fear not for a moment, i am in the nude before you with only the truth and my words of truth for you to judge as true or false. i
acknowledge you, i recognize you, i accept you for who and what you are, and i love you. fear not for a moment, just a moment, please i beg of you
judge my truth and share with me your truth. i am just a silly odd man named "som" by the one who preceded you.
my dearest love of fear: fear not for a moment, i am in the nude before you with only the truth and my words of truth for you to judge as true or
false. i acknowledge you, i recognize you, i accept you for who and what you are, and i love you. fear not for a moment, just a moment, please i beg
of you judge my truth and share with me your truth. i am just a silly odd man named "som" by the one who preceded you.
my dearest truth of fear: fear not for a moment, i am in the nude before you with only the truth and my words of truth for you to judge as true or
false. i acknowledge you, i recognize you, i accept you for who and what you are, and i love you. fear not for a moment, just a moment, please i beg
of you judge my truth and share with me your truth. i am just a silly odd man named "som" by the one who preceded you."
and fear spoke: "that was quick, you look a lot better. i had pity and felt sorry for you before when you past which is why i hid from you. i also
hid from you because "look i fear" and it is what i do. but the one you say came before me did not come before me, hate came after me. it was what
i created that would acknowledge me and accept me for who i am, and protect me from any and all harm. i am curious how did you come to conquer hate
last time you got by? the battle must have been fierce, you were in very bad shape and all bloody."
som replied: "you are mistaken, i have never come this way before. i come to you now to present to you the total of all i know, so you may compare
it to your truths and judge my truths as true or false. hear, here are my truths, which are the truths of my peoples and all i know of them and
myself, i am here in the nude, moving slowly and gently so you will not fear me for just 1 moment. i som give you all i know, what do you make of
it?"
fear not fearing replied:
wow, that is alot of stuff. i am not the one to judge your truth, i do not know what this thing you speak of is. this thing you call "love" i do
not know, and i do not know if i am it's opposite or not, fogive me, please, i do not have what it is you seek."
som sat down and proceeded to explain what love was as best as som could and spoke these words:
"love is the greatest thing as far as i can tell, given all i know. it is eternally acknowleging, eternally recognizing, eternally accepting of
everything that is flawed, it is forever sharing, it is forever healing, it is forever sheltering, it is forever protecting, it is forever teaching,
it is forever aiding, it is forever servicing everything and everyone in one way or another, and it is eternally for everyone to share with whomever
they choose to do so with." and the silly odd man spent a very long time explaining to "fear" what "love" is and how "som" had come to know it
through people and religions and all of it he had ever heard. and finally som stated his truth: "i honestly thought you were the opposite of love,
because i knew it was not hate or any other masks "fear" wears to hide itself. but everything i know tells me you speak honestly to me now your
truth, my dearest fear. fear not for a moment and join me to go and share our truths with "love" to see if love would know it's opposite, for
surely love would know what the opposite of love is and would have already identified it's opponent throughout existance. fear, don't you think so
as well?
fear not fearing spoke: "are you sure love would acknowledge me, recognize me, accept me, and do all the other stuff on your list of attributes you
assigned to it? i ask this because i do not know of love and am not sure if i would be a worthy to recieve all those gifts, "look i fear" is all i
know that i do.
som spoke: "what reason do i have to present you with truth that would not be compatible with you? love will love you because that is what love
does, i promise you this. you fear, hate hated, but hate hated only those who were fearful as they would not be allowed to pass, as you so ordered,
hate obeyed you. love will do far more for you."
fear spoke: "i believe you, but i am curious how sure are you that love would love me?"
som spoke: "i do not wager any of humanities first loves, i do not wager my life on it, i do not wager what is not mine to bet with, but i do wager
my very existance that love will do all the things i have told you love will do, and do it exponentially and eternally better than hate ever would
have had the capacity to do."
fear spoke: "your existance is your wager? wow, you are that sure of yourself? but your existance is just a silly odd man with the truth and your
words of truth, so i guess this is all you really have to wager. i know you speak the truth now, and yes i will accompany."
som spoke: "i thank you for your time, and promise you will not be dissapointed with love. besides they are just my truths and words of truth, both
truth and words should be free always anyways."
so "som" and "fear" proceeded in the direction of the epitome of all loves . .. . . .
to be continued . .. . . . .
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