A lie is a truth

[PrinceMyshkin]

The absence of truth
does not make a lie,
for a lie is the truth
disfigured, bruised,
vindictive. A lie
is a truth
that has come here
to die

[Delta40]

Nice perspective. The sin of omission begone!

[Jerrybaldy]

Or is a truth a lie untold?

[Jake10]

Interesting philosophy. It makes me think of politicians.

[Haunted]

But doesn't some truths do just that, disfigure and bruise? What about those lies that are told to protect? Prince I beg you, let those lies live!

[PrinceMyshkin]

Thanks Delta, JerryB, Jake 10 and


But doesn't some truths do just that, disfigure and bruise? What about those lies that are told to protect? Prince I beg you, let those lies live!

I came across a German word not long ago, “lebenslüge,” the awkward Google translation of which is: “As a life performance will lie any means, that as true as unfounded or absurd they may be, a human being makes bearable, and from which he draws the courage to live.”

Synonymous, it says, with “white lie.” So, yeh, Haunted, some lies just have to live...

[Delta40]

ok lets put it to the test - so I might have the courage to live....

do these pants make my butt look fat?

[PrinceMyshkin]

ok lets put it to the test - so I might have the courage to live....

do these pants make my butt look fat?

Au contraire, they highlight the slenderness of your waist-line!

[Delta40]

I see you have had alot of practice in the art of lebenslüge!

[PrinceMyshkin]

I see you have had alot of practice in the art of lebenslüge!

Maybe so but I did write a poem once about catching sight of that part of a woman's anatomy that was like a melody that haunted me the rest of the day.

(The woman in question was fully dressed, a stranger, seen on the street)