Truth and Trust

Interesting that Truth and Trust both start with the "tr" sound. Think about how the sound is formed by your mouth, you almost pucker for a kiss. Maybe that's where the connection about truth and relationships came. There is plenty of myth (and some 21st Century research) about kissing and how it can reveal an optimum mate for reproduction. Apparently someone who is vastly different genomphetically will taste delicious as interpreted by your personal taste sensors.

So the consequence of risking a kiss with a stranger is that you might become entranced by the truth of  their genes.

The next link in the truth to trust chain (and this is not the exercise of changing one letter at a time to create trust from truth) is one of verification of the truth. Although your genetic self might think the person is optimal, what is his or her attitude about, say: the National Debt? the winner of the Play-Off? the latest Fashion Week silhouettes? the most soothing environment? the hours of sleep a highly successful person needs?

Given the chance that people can and will prioritize among the topics above (and even reject some), their philosophical truth may be very foreign and possibly threatening. Fear does not equal trust.

Now you have a choice, to follow your genetic code or your ethical or your cultural or your opine code. Trust is built through mutual understanding and acceptance of The Truth (as your lived culture defines it) and if those personal codes are vastly different, expect distrust caused by recurrent misunderstanding.

So my view is that the Consequence of Truth and Trust is to create an awareness of differences and diversity and then to develop an appreciation of difference and diversity  in the face of Misunderstanding and Fear