RE: A Beautiful Lie
January 10, 2022 at 1:29 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2022 at 1:35 pm by Spongebob.)
I'm sure there are plenty of wonderful lies that people tell, sometimes with good intent and others not. But I don't think its ever bad to question such a lie. I think its actually good practice to question them and to question almost everything. I don't regard hopes or stretch goals to be a lie, but rather challenges that require extraordinary effort to attain. I enjoy picking apart such lies and examining their flaws. Even if it is a lie, there might still be some good to come of it or some good ideas involved.
One example of what I would call a "beautiful lie" is the practice some religious leaders have that if you follow such and such rules or believe such and such with all your heart that magical things will happen. You will attain great wealth, be assured of health and happiness. So on and so forth. These are somewhat well intentioned lies but they are absolutely lies and not worthy of acceptance. Depending on how good the purveyor of the lie is, they can be almost hypnotizing in their allure.
The truly interesting question for me is why some people so readily accept such lies and why they fail to question things that are obviously intended to manipulate and exploit them.
I didn't consider this aspect in my first response. Yes, we are all quite familiar with such situations, particularly with Trump, the right wing, corona...so forth. And I understand you appear to be saying that whoever questions the lie is the bad person expressly because they are questioning it. This is a psychological question and brings into focus the entire field of group think, in group vs out group, security and probably a host of psychological issues I know little about. I do know that people tend to believe what makes them feel comfortable in the world and reject information that contradicts that "framework". This is a huge reason that Christian indoctrination sticks to well.
One example of what I would call a "beautiful lie" is the practice some religious leaders have that if you follow such and such rules or believe such and such with all your heart that magical things will happen. You will attain great wealth, be assured of health and happiness. So on and so forth. These are somewhat well intentioned lies but they are absolutely lies and not worthy of acceptance. Depending on how good the purveyor of the lie is, they can be almost hypnotizing in their allure.
The truly interesting question for me is why some people so readily accept such lies and why they fail to question things that are obviously intended to manipulate and exploit them.
(January 10, 2022 at 7:08 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: That's just it, the lie is beautiful to the ones who want to believe in it, but to others, who see it's a lie, it's not beautiful.
I didn't consider this aspect in my first response. Yes, we are all quite familiar with such situations, particularly with Trump, the right wing, corona...so forth. And I understand you appear to be saying that whoever questions the lie is the bad person expressly because they are questioning it. This is a psychological question and brings into focus the entire field of group think, in group vs out group, security and probably a host of psychological issues I know little about. I do know that people tend to believe what makes them feel comfortable in the world and reject information that contradicts that "framework". This is a huge reason that Christian indoctrination sticks to well.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller
