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Originally Posted by Bill14564
Lying requires stating something that is opposite to the truth; who gets to decide what the truth is? Extending your family analogy, the question, "why?" is often answered, "because I said so." I am frightened by the idea of a centralized "mom" that establishes "truth" by the criteria, "because I said so."
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This will be my last post as you are twisting my meaning, and it appears that lying to some is connected to what they want to believe.
Truth is very easy.
Conspiracy theories rare usually easy....thus the term. Cannot, off the top of my head think of any conspiracy theories that have ever been proven to be true.
Your problem with recognizing truth is a problem.
Telling folks when facing serious illness that what they fear does not exist....that it is a conspiracy theory...that crosses all conceivable boundaries of civil discourse that I am aware of. I, me, believe that the promulgating of conspiracy theories is a demonstrative fear of the truth.
Or, as we are beginning to see, the lazy way out. Many of those who left Jamestown before the mass suicide have said exactly that....they knew they were being lied to but it was comfortable.
This is a serious disease. I find no humor, no wish to debate it.
It deserves truth and adherence to it.
And I lived in no fear growing up. I learned early to identify truth, and liars. And especially to be
responsible for my actions and
words