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In “A Few Good Men”, a 1992 film by Rob Reiner, Base Commander Colonel Nathan Jessup (Jack Nicholson) tells Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) in a defining moment of the film: “You can’t handle the

 2/In the film the truth ultimately prevails. Jessup confesses he ordered the “code red” and is arrested while Dawson and Downey are acquitted of the charges of murdering Santiago. However truth often doesn’t win the day on the great stage of life on which we are but the actors.
3/In a material and political world, truth can become the enemy of those in power. The truth about suffering led Siddhartha Gautama to leave his palace and princely inheritance to become the Buddha. The truth about Jesus Christ led to his crucifixion.
https://t.co/h45Xp6avLp
4/There is the truth about reality, and there is propaganda designed to keep people from knowing the truth. It’s the quest of the truth seeker to determine which is which.
5/“Shakespeare stated and I quote,”The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be the fool” the natural tendency of humans is not to face themselves and not to see who they really are- but knowing who you are gives you the strength to manage your weakness.””
6/In the journey of life I’ve stumbled, tripped and fallen only to find myself taking to the path of the truth seeker which helps me understand life on a deeper level as well as myself. Arriving to truth also brings lies, deceit & falsehood into clarity.
https://t.co/g7Y0SahLPp
7/This said, the truth is that North Korea’s education system is better than the US’s, and their teachers are more dedicated to teaching their students than unionized American school teachers, who demand that schools remain closed during COVID while they continue getting paid.
8/DPR Korea's Free Education System - On the International Day of Education on Jan 24
https://t.co/ZfX2DtNeMJ
[Published on Jan 25, 2021]
Fully Provided with the Right to Education - On the International Day of Education
January 24 is the International Day of Education. It was
9/“instituted at the 44th Plenary Meeting of the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly held in December 2018 with the aim of providing the people with full rights to education and strengthening the international cooperation for equal, comprehensive and qualitative education.”
10/Patrick Maurus and Pierre-Olivier Francois are truth seekers.

Have Fun in Pyongyang

Life in North Korea | DW Documentary
https://t.co/CpewL1wue9
[Published on Mar 1, 2020]
“Are people in North Korea allowed to laugh, dance and marry? This documentary provides unique insights
11/“on everyday life in the East Asian country, which most people associate with dictatorship, military parades and nuclear missile testing.”
12/The truth is that Music Clubs in US schools would be hard pressed to match the exuberance these North Korean high school students have in learning music, their instruments and singing.
https://t.co/nXZf9VCSkJ
13/The material world is a twisted reflection of the spiritual world. In an ideal justice system wrongdoing and wrongdoers are nailed to a cross.

[“nail to a cross

nail (one) to a cross

To punish, berate, or hurt one in a very severe fashion for a wrongdoing or transgression”]
14/Yet we live in a political world where the truth itself gets nailed to a cross when it gets in the way of the powerful maintaining their grip on power. A US military industrial complex that profits from war denies millions of people from the peace they deserve, long overdue.
15/Power attempts to keep the people ignorant of the truth by peddling whatever false narratives serve to forward their political agendas, which devolves into propaganda the people consume thru MSM or government/state controlled media.
16/It makes you wonder about the state of affairs b/t the US and North Korea: Are we the “good guys” and they the “bad guys”? Or is it the other way around? DPRK, a “shrimp among whales”, needs nuclear deterrence just to survive, yet like a bully the superpower US demands Kim
17/Jong Un fully denuclearize. How would President Biden react if Russia or China demanded we give them our nuclear stockpile? The DPRK Music Club students👆& all North Korean students, parents, teachers & workers feel safer b/c KJU has built up their defense against US! The US!
18/The country that makes life miserable for North Koreans thru sanctions, pressure policy and unfair demands. The US signed an Armistice meant to end the War and bring peace to all Koreans, North and South. North Koreans still want peace and Americans won’t give it. So are “we”
19/the “good guys”? Maybe at this stage, in 2021, the North Koreans - a nuclear underdog beset by an unruly US superpower acting more like a Goliath - are the “good guys”.

What is the truth?

As a truth seeker I cant draw conclusions for you I might have drawn for myself. I will
20/tho encourage one to be a truth seeker. However that could run afoul w/ the material & political powers that be who wish to suppress the truth and replace it instead w/ a false narrative.

When I see these North Koreans 👇celebrating New Year’s Eve 2020
https://t.co/Wgi33bcdNk
21/(opening scene) filled w/ as much joy as citizens in other countries, I know that North Korea is nowhere close to its maligned characterization pushed by the US, Western media, UN Security Council. I see people happier being North Korean than US citizens are at being American.
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