[Cantando]

Originally Posted by Angela

I grasp what you're saying, alright, Cantando: a lie is a lie. If you do something and then you deliberately deny that you did it, then that's a lie. Case closed, game over, that's reality, there's no arguing, it's The Truth about Lies ...

Yes, I understand your perspective, and I'm relieved you understand mine.

The thing with lies is that, once accepted, they become one's truth and one may become blind to the fact that they are believing a lie.

Wasn't Nazism in Germany based on believing lies - believing that the Aryan people were superior to everybody else? In fact, isn't all forms of racism and discrimination based on believing a lie? Perhaps, illusion or delusion may be better terms, but they are fairly synonymous.

Nature abhors a vacuum. When one rejects the truth about something (no, I don't mean The Truth), then, by default, one accepts something else, which is not the truth. If you listen to a guy who says, 'All blonde, blue-eyed people are superior' and believe it, then you ignore the truth that they are not, and accept the lie that they are. You then believe it and that becomes your subjective reality.

Yes, the belief in a lie can be transformed - firstly, by recognizing and admitting to oneself that it is a lie, and secondly, by doing something to rectify the situation.

Perhaps, you call it changing perspective. I just call it being honest with oneself.