Lie to me.
“Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies…”
One reason I usually refrain from silly posts on this blog is because I hope what is written here will have some credibility. On my other blog, Abbey 1, I often post ridiculous and humorous things, along with real news items. If I engage in jocuse lying, I label the post humor or something else to indicate it is not factual. I never deliberately try to deceive the reader. Lately I have been posting photos from spurious apparitions, and doing satirical posts on the same, in order to bring attention to the openess of even the devout as regards absurd lies and deceptions masquerading as heavenly messages. In the Gospel, speaking of the last days, our Lord warns, “Even the elect will be led astray if that were possible.”
“Teach your children.”
This week we have seen how Hillary Clinton has been exposed in one her lies, this one regarding her visit to Bosnia with her daughter. I suppose she lied in order to make herself appear more macho, more capable of being the Commander in Chief. She described the visit as extremely dangerous, landing amidst sniper fire and so on. CBS blew the story out of the water with footage from the visit, proving Hillary and Chelsea were lying. Hillary dismissed what she said by explaining that she misspoke, and Chelsea backed her up on that. (Proving to me that Bill and Hillary taught Chelsea to lie like they do.)
“If there was a universal law that it was generally OK to tell lies then life would rapidly become very difficult as everyone would feel free to lie or tell the truth as they chose, it would be impossible to take any statement seriously without corroboration, and society would collapse.” - bbc.com.uk
A week or so ago, I did a post about liars on the internet, implying that I knew of some bloggers who lie. I wasn’t referring to anyone in my sidebar, rather other blogs I happen upon when I surf the net. I particularly had in mind a couple of dissident Catholic blogs where the writers pretend to be faithful Catholics, although they are really schismatics and heretics. They do not love the truth - in fact, they invent their own truth in opposition to the Church. (They know who they are.)
“Stop lying to one another.”
I’m not here to single anyone out, I just want to bring attention to the fact that we are being lied to on a daily basis by media, big business, government, politicians, people pretending to be holy- the list goes on and on. We know that, but can’t we do something about it? Can’t we start saying, “She didn’t misspeak, she lied!” “He isn’t telling the truth, he’s lying!” “The president wasn’t misinformed, he was lied to.” Call a spade a spade and stop lying to one another.
(Photo: Scene from “The Talented Mr. Ripley”)
March 26th, 2008 at 10:22 am
“Call a spade a spade and stop lying to one another. ..”
Thank you. I think individuals have become so afraid to question anything one hears for fear it will offend the other by just raising the inconsistency in the other’s statements or actions. Or fear they will be labelled “judgmental” or “intolerant”, “not flexible” or whatever.
In addition, I think the corruption of language has much to do with it too. I just sent you an example of this on the “man” who is “pregnant”. It is amazing the newspeak that viewers are being asked to digest as “reality”.
March 26th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Someone ought to ask her about the time when the Clinton’s first took office, & when she was scheduled for her first official flight on one of the “blue & whites” at Andrews AFB, her response was something along the lines of “I’m not flying on those filthy planes.” The ground crew at Andrews maintain & wash these aircraft so well & so often, that they can be seen walking in their socks on the wings when the aircraft is hangared, as they buff the planes with cotton diapers! When an Andrews “blue & white” comes in for a landing, you can see that baby SHINE! So anyway, for her first official engagement, Her Worship chartered a private jet which cost the taxpayers a full year’s budget - for that 1 ride - what it would’ve cost to fly the Andrews modified aircraft. The only time Her Worship & the husband ever took time to shake the hands of folks waiting on the fenceline at base operations was when there were cameras present. Nor did they ever thank the groundcrew for the hard work they did in support of the Clinton’s.
March 26th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Incidentally, the aircraft that was so repugnant to Her Worship was tail number 6000, which was the aircraft that served as JFK’s Air Force One. It was an historic aircraft, in great shape, and it was a privilege just to be on board. It had LBJ’s stetson hat rack still on board, as well as JFK’s pipe rack & a soap dish in the head, personally selected by Jackie Kennedy. That aircraft was decommissioned in 1997 & is now in the Boeing Museum in Washington State.