Thwarticus

THINGS HAPPEN FOR A PURPOSE, we like to believe.

Most parents probably believe that life has a purpose, orientation towards the future.

If there is a purpose of life, it may not to be forward-looking, at all. Rather, the purpose of life may simply be, to create a past.

As a past is created, it is never lost, forever useful to the future in whatever manner the future chooses.

EVENTUALLY, REALIZATION MUST SETTLE IN.

The Left leaves no option of dealing with them as we would like, in a fair, rational, back-and-forth according to rules of play, which we prefer, believing we can win on the merits, and will stand corrected if proven wrong.

No, to counter the risk of losing on the merits, the Left will, characteristically, deny any truth not supportive of their schemes.

Humanity, at large, can do this, of course; not just the Left. The only way to fight back, is to do the same thing, it sometimes feels. At present, however, the Left is the major exponent of this characteristic.

When this characteristic of the Left settles in, our strategy in dealing with it must change, unless we wish to be confounded by lies.

We shouldn’t be confounded by lies that we understand. We should change strategy.

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Lies can have merit. When judgement indicates that any wrongs have been corrected, and lessons learned, and the matter is personal, then getting others to horn out, by way of lying to them, that might be appropriate. Things won’t be helped by being honest. It’s over. Time passes.

BEARING FALSE WITNESS against others is far more malicious than the convenience of a mere lie, however; wouldn’t you agree..?

Take Bill Clinton. His denials of sexual relations were mere lies. A wall of privacy was erected on such personal matters about the married president with a young daughter, exploiting … Well. You remember.

What became damning was how these mere, personal lies required Hillary to bear false witness against many others, and have that reported on national news programs.

Effective lies are secret lies.

Once public, they are excuses.

Picture a wizened old man, weary of this world, too familiar with its patterns, confronting all that he has learned, while every lesson still stands in direct conflict with something else.

With a deep sigh, he resigns himself to reality — there is no up or down. Nothing matters in the end.

He descends into The Great Glob.

IT IS TYPICAL to have multiple reasons for choosing one thing over another. When asked, “why did you do this?”, one can honestly answer with any of the many reasons, without mentioning each one; finding the one reason that suits one’s particular audience. To do so is not to tell a lie, but only to condense a response into the one most suitable, leaving unmentioned other things.

When one speaks, listeners know that whatever they hear, it is less than comprehensive. Things are left out, such as the REAL reason. So listeners can imagine their own array of reasons, and assign to the speaker whichever one they imagine fits best, as the real reason a person did something.

When imagined reasons dominate one’s thinking, reasons which were not expressed by anyone but arose in the mind of the listener and assigned to the speaker as his REAL motivation, because he was, for apparently good reason, trying not to reveal it, and instead chose to say something else; at this point, there has occurred a breach of trust which will widen over time.

By nature, what we hear ranks second to our own analysis based on personal experience, in shaping our view of the outside world. We do not automatically re-think to accommodate a correct argument, if we are comfortable with an incorrect one that has met our needs in the past.

This stubbornness has a tendency to persist beyond where the truth has been fully exposed. It persists by way of the listener assigning false motives to the truth teller, to discredit him and his message.

To those harboring such stubbornness, truth is a threat and truth tellers become mean spirited devils spouting lies.

There is a cliche: Each of us is unique.

I grant that we are, each, uniquely limited in our perceptions, and uniquely skilled in projecting motivations onto others, while claiming that others may not see their REAL motivations, because of internal suppression of conscious thought.

IF INSECTS WERE required to endure longer lives, they’d need furniture..!

Stop to consider all the accommodations necessary to support and entertain a growing human population. If longevity increases, then be ready for higher living costs, as well, because those costs will grow proportionally with longevity, don’t you think?

How lucky the fly. It needs no clothing, furniture, or even an education..! Why can’t we avoid the high costs of living, too..!!!

Speaking on behalf of the Community of Living Beings, to which we all hold the title, Current Member, let me remind myself that not a moment has past since the beginning of time when someone wasn’t dying.

That’s a lot of “accumulated dying”. Where is it..? Will someone point to it for me.

LIFE CHANGES QUICKLY.

AND how wonderful an invention the camera, and that it was invented early enough to catch so much history.

I picture American Indians slapping themselves in the forehead at having never discovered the wheel, thinking to themselves: “How much we missed! How much we could have accomplished! If only we had discovered the wheel as a tool..!”

In fairness, because the American continent lacked horses, cows, and other draft animals until after Europeans arrived, the wheel was less urgently needed until then.

That’s the opposite of how I feel when looking at old photographs — how lucky we were to have discovered the camera..!