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The North Korean government claims Kim Jong Il made 11 holes-in-one in his first golf game. For a long time I wondered why they bother making up such outrageous lies. Then one day I realized that the very outrageousness of the lie IS the point.

Every tyrant’s power is built on a foundation of lies, and therefore tyrants must always condition their victims to the subjugation of lies. The more outrageous and unbelievable the lie, the better. Because the more outrageous the lie, the more the light in the victim’s soul fades when he repeats it, and as that light fades so too does his will to resist.

The point of the 11 holes-in-one story is not that anyone believes it. The point is that no one believes it. And every North Korean affirms what they know not to be true because they are afraid of the consequences if they do not.

The tyrant demonstrates he has true power over you if he is able to force you to murder your own soul.

Remember that the next time a progressive tries to berate you into affirming the lie that a man is in fact a woman

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LCD, that cuts close to home. KFkairosfocus
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Uninformed Consent(2022) -Official full documentaryLieutenant Commander Data
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Sev, last I saw, it was black vans and maybe APCs, with agents in flak jackets and toting looks like M4's or perhaps AR15s. Grabbing people before dawn and parading them in handcuffs before oh so conveniently present agit prop media cameras is telling. So is locking people up under ridiculously over charged accusations for months or years and bankrupting them through process as punishment. Much more can be said. Including that assault or attack choppers and missile armed drones are just one step beyond that. Do I need to say, as I said as a 5th Former in 1976, I smell a Reichstag burning? (That was the launch of the 5 year civil war in my native land. Try to get and read a copy of Pearnel Charles' Detained.) Have we forgotten that history already? KF PS, found a newspaper article https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20201030/why-manley-said-pearnel-charles-was-locked-former-politician-yet-bekairosfocus
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Sev, there may be cases like you use where some accuracy is helpful, but that does not extend to more abstract or inferential knowledge. We are back to the failure of evolutionary materialistic scientism and/or fellow travellers to account for mind. It takes responsible, rational, significantly free so morally governed status to be truthful or capable of freely and soundly inferring truth and sound warrant that it is true. There is no escaping the Haldane challenge on such a basis, as it becomes directly self referential. What you are actually doing is implicitly taking yourself as rational, precisely what is not available to a gigo limited computational substrate. You are unconsciously borrowing from the very worldviews you would dismiss. KFkairosfocus
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Seversky at 68, Who cares about black helicopters? I'm far more concerned about the Official Accusers (TM) who are holier than thou. They will control the horizontal. They will control the vertical. They will control everything you see and hear. They believe they are perfect, and able to cast judgment on all lesser beings - that means you. Just like Godless Communists, they will order society as they see fit.relatd
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Relatd/62
Guess what? CENSORSHIP is happening right now. They (The Global Cabal of Relabelers and Repackagers) now call it getting “canceled.’ So yeah, Sev, it is happening RIGHT NOW but you can’t be against it because once they find you, you will be taken out and… uh… cancelled.
Better be careful what you post here then or the unmarked black helicopters could be inbound before you know it.Seversky
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Alan Fox/57
What would persuade you there may be a problem, when Florida slides gently beneath the waves?
Would that be a problem?
Not necessarily. Although, I suppose if an Ark were seen in Ron DeSantis's front driveway people might take the hint.Seversky
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How many billionaires can tell a tornado is approaching? How man billionaires have more than one computer telling them the current (fake) value of Bitcoin? How many average, non-climatologist people are frightened daily by (fake) reports of disastrous climate change?relatd
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When billionaires sell their beachfront property in Florida due to a fake rise in the sea level. Until then, only making more and more money matters.
True, but how many billionaires are climatologists?Seversky
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Kairosfocus/51
Sev,at least you acknowledge that truth is accurate description of actuality. However, it has long since been shown that there is little reason to assume or assert that survival value and truthfulness are necessarily interconnected.
I don't think so. If you jump off a tall building because you think the ground will absorb your impact as if it was sponge runner as in The Matrix or you walk in front of a speeding train because you think it's not really there, the chances are you won't survive for very long. Some false beliefs may be survivable but many more are not. It seems to me there is little doubt that truth-value and survival-value are closely connected.Seversky
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Sev, the civil peace of justice is due balance of rights, freedoms, duties. Freedom of speech does not overturn duties of truth, warrant, prudent restraint, fairness, etc. Ironically, those who would deride and dismiss such will invariably imply what they would overturn. In that context, there is always a limit to freedom, starting with defamation and fraud. It extends to the restraints of decency to retain a family friendly public space so children can thrive in safety. And more, all of which are now being rapidly undermined by those exercising licence [and censorship of the despised other] under false colours of freedom. And yes, most of this is coming under further banners of progressivism which is little more than anticivilisational, misanthropic behaviour. We are in a literal world of trouble and soon, there will be Hell to pay. KFkairosfocus
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Seversky at 60, Guess what? CENSORSHIP is happening right now. They (The Global Cabal of Relabelers and Repackagers) now call it getting "canceled.' So yeah, Sev, it is happening RIGHT NOW but you can't be against it because once they find you, you will be taken out and... uh... cancelled.relatd
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Asauber You just described The Trans Community. Andrew
Trans Community is an illusion like Greta Thunberg.Lieutenant Commander Data
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Kairosfocus/45
Sev, there is an issue of severe suppression and misrepresentation of facts through cynical censorship and narratives of half truth backed by the media and institutional power of the “progressive” cultural elites who have mutinied the ship of state. That has to be faced and resolved as a matter of defence of civilisation. KF
Unfortunately, we seem to have a choice between an unfettered as possible freedom of speech, which means that we have to tolerate things that we find personally offensive, or censorship, which is fine as long as it agrees with our own views, but not so good when it doesn't.Seversky
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the extreme weather patterns recently
What extreme weather pattern? Question: When someone is nearly 100% wrong, does that mean the person actually endorses the opposite of what they ostensibly advocate?jerry
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"when Florida slides gently beneath the waves?" Sev, Will monkeys typing the works of Shakespeare fly out of your butt at the same time? Cause it's eventually goin to happen, right? Andrewasauber
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What would persuade you there may be a problem, when Florida slides gently beneath the waves?
Would that be a problem?Alan Fox
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Seversky at 54, When billionaires sell their beachfront property in Florida due to a fake rise in the sea level. Until then, only making more and more money matters.relatd
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"Have you noticed the extreme weather patterns recently?" Sev, Note the use of the word "weather". Use your fertile mossy mind to process what that could mean. Andrewasauber
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Relatd/25
The world is run by whoever controls the most money.
To an extent, that's true, at least until those that don't have money decide to take matters into their own hands.
Climate change is a hoax to scare the cattle into buying electric cars.
Have you noticed the extreme weather patterns recently? What would persuade you there may be a problem, when Florida slides gently beneath the waves?Seversky
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LCD at 50, Don't use invented words. "cancel" means nothing. They want to CENSOR people. CENSOR is the correct word.relatd
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"subjects brainwashed enough to play the narative and in the same time to cancel everyone who oppose it" LCD, You just described The Trans Community. Andrewasauber
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Sev,at least you acknowledge that truth is accurate description of actuality. However, it has long since been shown that there is little reason to assume or assert that survival value and truthfulness are necessarily interconnected. But that does not begin to show the undermining of mind implied by evolutionary materialistic scientism and/or fellow travellers. That turns truth into meaningless mouth noise. See the PS. KF PS, Haldane's indictment,
[JBSH, REFACTORED AS SKELETAL, AUGMENTED PROPOSITIONS:] "It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For
if [p:] my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain [–> taking in DNA, epigenetics and matters of computer organisation, programming and dynamic-stochastic processes; notice, "my brain," i.e. self referential] ______________________________ [ THEN] [q:] I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. [--> indeed, blindly mechanical computation is not in itself a rational process, the only rationality is the canned rationality of the programmer, where survival-filtered lucky noise is not a credible programmer, note the functionally specific, highly complex organised information rich code and algorithms in D/RNA, i.e. language and goal directed stepwise process . . . an observationally validated adequate source for such is _____ ?] [Corollary 1:] They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence [Corollary 2:] I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms. [--> grand, self-referential delusion, utterly absurd self-falsifying incoherence] [Implied, Corollary 3: Reason and rationality collapse in a grand delusion, including of course general, philosophical, logical, ontological and moral knowledge; reductio ad absurdum, a FAILED, and FALSE, intellectually futile and bankrupt, ruinously absurd system of thought.]
In order to escape from this necessity of sawing away the branch on which I am sitting, so to speak, I am compelled to believe that mind is not wholly conditioned by matter.” ["When I am dead," in Possible Worlds: And Other Essays [1927], Chatto and Windus: London, 1932, reprint, p.209. Cf. here on (and esp here) on the self-refutation by self-falsifying self referential incoherence and on linked amorality.]
kairosfocus
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You know there are at least two sides to this coin. Now there’s pressure by the Trans Community to do what the Trans Community expects.
There is not such a thing like Trans Community . This is a global experiment that produce subjects brainwashed enough to play the narrative and in the same time to cancel everyone who oppose it. In a sane world Trans Community would not appear in first 1000 most important things for humanity. This insanity started decades ago and now we just observe the results . Even if today we would cancel this experiment(that start with kids sexual "education")there are few generations that already been brainwashed , guess who will be politicians and CEOs in the next 40-50 years ?Lieutenant Commander Data
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Seversky at 46, Why do you peddle nonsense? 'I feel like a man today, a woman tomorrow and none of the above on the weekend.' Something we should teach our kids? That's called irrational behavior. Irrational thinking.relatd
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FYI, your worldview of Darwinian Materialism and/or Atheistic Materialism is simply incapable of grounding truth.
The correspondence theory of truth, in which the truth value of a claim about observable reality is measured by the degree to which the claim corresponds to observations of the aspect of reality that the claim purports to describe, is a well-established philosophical "grounding".
As Nancy Pearcey further explains in the following article, if Darwin’s theory is true, then ‘the ideas in our minds were selected for their survival value, not for their truth-value’,,
Yes, and the fundamental flaw in that argument is the inference that "survival value" and "truth-value" are mutually exclusive.
Thus Darwin’s theory denies that we can personally know any objective truth ourselves, whilst Darwinism’s bastard philosophical child of ‘postmodern pragmatism’ denies the existence of any transcendent standards of objective truth altogether. i.e. all ‘truth’ is merely illusory and subjective on a postmodern, Darwinian, view of things.
The theory of evolution is not about philosophical concepts of truth but our knowledge of the true nature of objective reality and our capacity to acquire such knowledge are limited, if only by the limited capacity of our senses to gather data about that reality. What do you mean by "truth", the nature of objective reality or the claims we make about it?Seversky
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"how each sex is expected to dress and behave" Sev, You know there are at least two sides to this coin. Now there's pressure by the Trans Community to do what the Trans Community expects. Andrewasauber
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Barry Arrington/20
Here’s a truth. A man is not a woman and cannot become a woman by pretending to be one. Are you able to affirm that truth?
I can affirm that a human being cannot be both a biological male and biological female at one and the same time and that we do not have the knowledge to bring about a complete physical transformation from one to the other at this time, as far as I know. But who knows what may be possible in the future. I also believe that human sexuality has both social and psychological components, social in the sense of cultural norms concerning how each sex is expected to dress and behave, for example, and psychological in the sense of whether individuals feels themselves to be male or female. None of the above should be an issue for others in society as long as no one is being compelled to behave in a way that is against their will.Seversky
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Sev, there is an issue of severe suppression and misrepresentation of facts through cynical censorship and narratives of half truth backed by the media and institutional power of the "progressive" cultural elites who have mutinied the ship of state. That has to be faced and resolved as a matter of defence of civilisation. KFkairosfocus
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So, I assume you think Kellyanne Conway’s “alternative facts” was equally Orwellian?
Prove that Kellyanne’s alternative facts were not closer to the truth than media’s false facts. My guess is you can’t. So all that is provided is rhetoric not facts. Does this mean “alternative” is more accurate? And the real Orwellian facts are the ones you endorse? The really interesting question is why some endorse false facts provided by media and not true facts presented by Kellyanne Conway and how stupid your comment is?jerry
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