It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
How much are we being lied to? Lies lies poppycock and lies. And here's the apex question. Do you really want to know the truth? Not just of how much we're being lied to. But would you really want to know the truth of every lie. I'm not talking of anything truly having to do with national security. Every idiot is surely aware somethings have to be kept secret. Lies are often the spawn of secrets. The more secrets the more lies. So when you hear a lie it's likely because something is being kept from you/us. Politicians lie when they promise to be tranparent.
originally posted by: NightSkyeB4Dawn
a reply to: Randyvine2
I used to think the truth was important, and we should be told the truth. I now realize that people will hear and believe what they want to believe. It doesn't make a bit of difference how much truth you bombard people with, they will distort facts or outright reject the inconvenient truth, for the comfortable lie.
What does that have to do with truth, that people love getting their ears tickled with trash? Lies do not alter the truth, even more confirm the truth, in a real sense, by their opposition to truth, by their attempted obfuscation of truth. In any event, truth is really all there is: truth has substance. Lies are nothing, worthless, making truth also only to have value.
originally posted by: Randyvine2
a reply to: Scrutinizing
And I'm not even speaking from a religious, but more of an academic view of ancient literature. I site how often archaeologists use it in reference for example. For me it is truly a masterful work religion all the way to the curb. With holding prejudice of course
originally posted by: NightSkyeB4Dawn
a reply to: Scrutinizing
Unfortunately truth has become a victim of perception. Truth is what most people accept as fact. A perceived truth is as valid to those that believes the sun rises every morning and sets every evening, as it is false to those where it doesn't.
Quite a prescient point. Truth is even immutable, whatever the truth is, truth real, when lies waft away as less than a vapor, like some bad thought expiring. Good point! Of course, on the theological level, and other levels, there is the narrow evil and destructive intent behind lies, and for whatever rationale. So truth is positive, and lies are negative. It's like matter and antimatter, the antimatter worthless crap.
originally posted by: All Seeing Eye
a reply to: Randyvine2
I must agree with you completely, we live in a matrix of lies!
Today its becoming more and more clear that the governments of the world are corrupt to the core. And yes, the majority of people can not, or do not want to see the truth. They were born into a system of lies as old as the great flood. They have been educated, indoctrinated into the lie so deeply that their own training kicks in to reject any other counter information that may lead to their freedom.
There is only one way to get through to them, and I, am the case study. My adventure started with a "Observation" of external intervention. Seeing, is believing.
I must be forgiven if from time to time I stray too closely to one of those "Guarded" secrets. My quest was and is to discover truth, no matter if it is in the dark, or light. Because, you need the one, to see, the other...
During the days of black slavery it was said many more could be freed if only they knew, they were slaves. After the first generation of slaves the blacks resigned themselves to their fate in life and accepted their fate. Not because they they knew deep inside they were nothing but slaves, but because they were taught they were slaves by their owners and parents. They received "Generational" education. They were born into the slave matrix...
Mankind, regardless of color have also been born into a slave matrix. Today we can see the owners for who and what they really are. We can not accept any other mindset, as those blacks, because we have nothing to compare our slavery too. The blacks never saw a free black man to compare their life too. Nor, does mankind in general. So, we settle for what we see.
Seeing, is believing..............
Jesus spoke the truth. Imagine, if he could show it as well. The perfect generation devoid of, demons...............
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: Randyvine2
If someone tells you that they are lying, are they telling you the truth?