UNOY

Thinking... 

Have you ever been lied to?

It doesn't feel good.
Most of the time it feels like a betrayal.
But why?
 
The nature and purpose of lies is in the distortion of truth.

Thus all lies contain within them, and have their base in, truth.
If the containment of truth is only to establish a base trust from which to work.

So, if we are able to know a lie, it is only logical to conclude that it is because we are able to know the truth that it is intended to distort.
 
Those who refuse to accept the concept of objective truth, are consequently unable to refute the lies intended to distort them, as there is then no basis for doing so.

The refusal to acknowledge one or the other or both, means that both become equal and the same.They are seen as unknowable, inseparable, indistinguishable. But we know that the truth is not a lie or the other way around.
 
If we have any moral compass to appeal to in arguing civil rights, or to appeal to any sense of fair in how we might deal with or treat one another, it must be based in some common understanding of such truth.

That we have that common understanding of what truth is, points to an origin (or source) of truth beyond dna engrained within all of us.

Many religions call this many things, but I call it God.

That this truth has an origin and is found within all of us, then too points to the conclusion that we too have a common point of origin. That we are not accidental beings with coincidental moral commonalities. 

Hence a creator. 
Here too many religions call this many things, but I call it being made in God's image.

It is this distortion of truth that is the nature of sin.
That is to say if we exercise our freewill to speak anything other than the truth, intentionally or not, indicates that though we are created in the image of God, we are also separated from him.

Again many religions call this many things, but I call it fallen.
 
This inherent understanding of truth, I believe, is the reason many of us seem convicted to expose lies when we find them. Because our origin is in truth, consciously acknowledged or not, we are moved to defend it. This I believe is in part why we might feel violated when we are lied to.

That we know truth causes us to be concerned with exposing the distortion thereof...lies. 

We are sorely mistaken to think that simply exposing lies is also communicating truth. It's not.

However speak the truth out of love and you will not only have communicated the truth, but as a result exposed the liars.

Thoughts?