(April 30, 2016 at 3:49 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote:(April 30, 2016 at 12:28 pm)Drich Wrote: what makes you think what was said by the Cretan prophet was not meant to be taken literally?
Are you still working on the wrong definition of the word liar?
Again a liar is someone who takes no issue lying, which means that person feels as comfortable telling a lie as telling the truth. it does not mean one has to be lying when ever he is speaking.
That being the case what the prophet is saying is that his people just as soon lie to you as tell you the truth if a lie would better serve them. So then why would this observation be considered to be hyperbole if it represents a cultural truth?
If the prophet was telling the truth, then Cretans aren't always liars are they.
Why not?
