Man and woman, girl and boy, old gen and lady: that’s us all.
There’s a host of others as well like eagles and beagles, whales and snails
All of which take part in a chain that extends beyond our present realm.
Why are we here and what are we? Where are we going and are we free?
Do we know the truth about us or are we governed by a force from above?
What’s that force and what does it do? Why do we feel so lonely in this whole ado?
There are some of the questions we’ll post here and ask them and answer as we go near.
Do you want to know the truth? Be sincere. Both about yourself and those you hear.
Because the truth has a power unknown to lie – it makes man happy, merry and wise.
A gem of truth weighs more than a thousand shams of lies
If you feel subject to the degrading combination of truth and lie, you are like me.
If you think you are capable to distinguish between the two, you are like me.
If you want to dig for evidence for the truth inside, outside and beyond us, you are like me.
If you want to unveil myths presented as truth, you are like me.
If you have a good question to ask or answer, you are like me.
If you want to challenge us to think bigger and deeper, you are like me.
If you have a different opinion which you can ‘prove right’, you are like me.
If you agree that establishing the truth is a process that not always has an easy answer and sometimes has no answer at all, you are like me.
Lil’s gems
This is my site for my search for the truth in, around and beyond us. If you want, it can be yours as well. Have you ever lied? Has someone ever lied to you? If your answer to these two questions is negative, you may leave this site, because you won’t be able to tell the difference between the two, knowing only the one. If you belong to the group of people knowing both, you may again leave this site if you want or if you feel you know enough. But if you don’t know enough and you want to know more, or if you think you can help us know more and distinguish better, then you can join us in this quest as a Guest or a Friend.
GEMS OR SHAMS
What’s the difference between a store and a jeweler’s only high street door?
Both are open for all to see and buy things there that are not for free.
But the price they pay for what’s inside is incompatible in cost and might.
A gem is valued for its rarity and the sweat you shed to make prepare it,
As for shams, it’s not so hard to get and making them is an easy gain.
But when you want an expert’s advice, go and ask for a jeweler’s eyes.
For every owner of a gem full shop will tell the difference from a sham full top.
GEMPLATE thinks that imitations of designer labels are not only the prerogative of fashion or production of luxury items, which require a huge amount of expertise and resources like good management, workforce, organization, creativity, and many other things, which we call “investments”, before they appear on the market to satisfy the needs of end-users, but they are everywhere.
As producers and users of different kinds of goods, we know very well what the main characteristic of imitations is: they look like the original products but their quality is much lower and their durability is much shorter. This is to be expected since it is the goal of their makers: they want to gain as great a profit as possible for the lowest cost estimable. One of the means to achieve this is by using (stealing) the brand name after changing, adding or omitting a letter or a sign or something else in their design.
There are also imitations in the realm of ideas, which is fundamental to human life as it determines the nature and organization of all the subsequent layers that are to be laid over it and that will constitute its actual existence. An example of such a situation is the statement, “Man is (in)fallible”, which has given rise to different kinds of organization of human society, experienced by its members as individual lives, which have brought about all sorts of miseries or happiness.
GEMPLATE believes that this is the case with some natural facts, the truth of which can be proved by using the power of the human mind to discern original design. Most of it is self-evident as when you buy a first class product: its quality in terms of usefulness, beauty and reliability is proven in practice. Another way to prove the genuineness of a thing is to compare it with another thing, in this case its imitation. If you are an expert, you will tell the difference at once. If you are not an expert, you will ask an expert for advice. There are other methods which people use to distinguish between the lie and the truth, but what matters most is: what do you want – a genuine product or a fake?
GEARLS
GEARLS are pearls of discretion linked with science progression
Which have seen a design by the power of the human mind.
This has made them to grow other pearls in a row
Or rise up like a star, lighting roads from afar.
Gems of truth based on nature’s proof
Facts are there for all to see if we want to keep our eyes free.
They can suffer no loss even if we twist them at high-speed cost.
Their nature doesn’t change; ours gets out of plane.
Try to shake a single plate and you’ll destroy the whole template.
That’s what happens when an earthquake shakes the layers with no restraint.
Gems in us seem easier to find
Facts in us seem easier to find,
Because they can be subject to a man’s design.
We have invented the microscope to dig into tissues, cells and probes.
But how far deep can we go, without risking our future bone?
Gems around us are littered everywhere
Nature’s full of precious stones littered everywhere we go:
Up and down the waterfall, deep inside the mining hall.
Some are not so hard to find, others need an expert’s mind.
The question is: Why are they there and can they disappear if I say “Dare”?
Some can, like the dinosaurs which became extinct ages ago;
But most stay to make us say, “Nature’s there and we’re safe.”
Let’s fly into higher spheres
Why are there galaxies with planets and stars and not just the Solar system that houses us?
For if there were no spaceships or rockets or shuttles we would not fly up the layers that shut us.
And how does it happen that the Sun’s rays’ heat passes through space uninhibited,
But when it gets into the atmosphere, it reduces its intensity into what’s life near?
Is that a coincidence or a result of a creative activity of a subtler mind?
GENIGMAS
GENIGMAS are nature’s enigmas that someone has built or sealed.
Some are there for a dare; others are laid as a snare.
But none are of a kind which is too hard to unbind.
Because they were made by a hand with the same bone and vein,
And blood that is running through a brain full of honey
Waiting to be dissolved in a box saying “That’s solved”!
GEMPLATE TEAM
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