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Lies

Q: Why is it when the truth is presented, people will argue that black is white and white is black in order to not accept that truth? Why do people doggedly and determinedly insist on believing lies?

A: Because...

1. "Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past."
~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~

2. "The power to fit in with one’s social peers can be irresistible. To a human lemming, the logic behind an opinion doesn’t count as much as the power and popularity behind an opinion."
~ Norman Livergood ~

3. "The great mass of people ... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. What luck for rulers that men do not think."
~ Adolf Hitler ~

Still...

4. "If you want to make someone angry, tell him a lie; if you want to make him furious, tell him the truth. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

Always remember, it is a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear. Also, however long it take, truth will always win out. By virtue of it's staying power, compared to the ceaselessly shifting sands of lies that forever change to suit the circumstances, truth is self-evident and is recognized sooner or later.. sooner to the superior mind, later to the mediocre one.

Demitra M.N.