Tuesday, October 07, 2008
The Fall of Single Feather...

Lies.

Ever lost something precious, and never found it again?

If it was not precious to you, it could be something important, or something that could get yourself screwed if you can't find it anymore.

In any case, the normal instinct to recovering lost item is to back track the last time you see that particular item. However, you must know this. When you back track to where you seen the last item, is it where you really last saw it, or whether, you wanted to think that that is where you last saw it?

This is kind of confusing, but to keep it simple, I'm saying, to not lie to youself, or believe in lies. At times, when we search for something, or want to believe in something, it could be lies that we want to believe in instead.

Try reflecting on a time, where you lose something and believed that it was somewhere. Then, it appeared somewhere else instead. Try to remember the feeling that you experience when you sincerely believed that it was where you thought it was supposed to be.

Then, you realised that you just believed a lie.

If this had never happened to you, congratulations.

It happened to me a lot of times.

This may be better explained by this line, so I'll just show it to you.

This, is the Wizard's First Rule from Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth Novel series.

"People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true." - Zedd.

Explanation by Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander:

"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."

Later...


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