Lies are convenient- People find them when they need them to fill holes in their story, to misdirect or redirect people to other issues or matter. Often times people make them up as they go.
They’re convenient to find, mainly because they appear almost out of thin air. In fact, Lies are a fabrication, a construct, a white lie snowballs into a bigger one. Creating a matrix of illusion that captivates the audience to focus on something else other than the truth.
Often times, no one sees something as a primary source and has the first initial thought to lie. Often lying is a defense mechanism or a weapon from other traumas or situations to ‘flight’ and not ‘fight’ the issue at hand. (There’s many different origins of a lie and lying, and that’s not the meat of this article)
To intentionally lie, when knowing the truth, is to speak a mistruth or omit the full truth and spin the story in a way that gains support and redirects people. Lying by omission using partial truths, or just outright lying is done to gaslight the realities of listeners and truth seekers and blind their discernment to become sympathetic to your cause. Often the cause is the liar not getting in trouble, or the liar pinning the blame and framing the fall guy or the scape goat.
When you get a bunch of people talking in circles to fabricate new PR angles or marketing slogans to ‘spin’ the news. It becomes a conspiracy. Conspiracy, simply means ‘(con-)with (spira)breath’, people talking and constructing narratives in quarterly report board rooms or war rooms or a lobbying center or even a Gang ran restaurant. Plans, a group plan is a conspiracy, and one that works to weave lies with truth, is one to wage misinformational warfare in an informational war campaign. These groups, high or small in status, want publicized lies to give them credence to a righteous cause and gain moral support whether for war or for donations or for whatever monetary-or-not profit driven motive.
On the other hand;
Truths are inconvenient
People in Politics or people who lie (like some narcissists or some sociopaths), don’t like the truth being said out loud. They don’t like the quiet part out loud because it changes the narrative and the control. It sways public opinion or the jury of peers. There are no mistakes in politics, just happy accidents that are PR spun to align with new converging interests (or brushed under the rug and memory-holed).
If you weave a narrative of falsehoods, each lie is like a hole, a sort of plot hole, to the narrated plot. As such, as more people ask questions or try to understand your false narrative, you have to work around them, around the truth to maintain the lie.
You can visually imagine someone trying to walk a path of bricks with a bunch of missing bricks, and each hole is a truth that got poked out and questioned. It unravels the lie or the ‘easy road’ that was made to jump from the beginning conclusion to the desired conclusion based on a weaponized lie.
You may also exercise the right to surrender and face and confront the truth. To give up on the lie and whistle blow or tell the truth.
Truths will reveal your convenient lies that helped justify things. With the convenience loss, it’s clear that truth becomes inconvenient. Truth dissolves or burns away the make up of made up lies, that’s why they’re inconvenient truths.
Often times people that repeat stories and rumors claiming lies as objective facts are both liars and lied to. If you don’t know the truth and you repeat something, how are you sure if it’s the lie or the truth without doing any due diligence? There’s a reason why the waterhole, rumor mill, or gossiping circles can be a poison or a useful tool.
A tool is the town crier, the Television networks, or the parrot that repeats a good PR spin, a bot in a Social Media sight, or a useful idiot staged and astroturfed acting. Please do be mindful to recognize if you’re being a pawn in someone else’s game. If you thought of others falling prey to this before yourself, then I guarantee you’re not looking in the mirror hard enough.
Truths will tear down and dissolve the lies, the fabrication, the false reality. In doing so, the Truth will set you free, from the lies. Free from having to ‘maintain the lie’ if you’re the liar. Free from believing in the lie, if you were lied to.
But it’s up to you to find out what’s true after you’re free.
Because people often escape one lie and jump into another lie. It’s not that they find a new truth, it’s rather more likely that the find the second lie.
Don’t mistake disenchantment for Truth
“Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth”
-Jean-Paul Sartre
Epilogue
If you’re a truth seeker on the journey, you’ll get stronger in your discernment skills as you wrestle with fabricated realities and constructs of reality. Questioning what is and isn’t real, as well as what is and isn’t true.
You can think of truth as a sword that can cut lies, and lies are like a net that can obscure or occlude vision. If you’re in the Machiavellian camp, then you’d do well to know how to work with the art of both discernment and lie-crafting.
As an added bonus, for lie-crafting, because why-not. . . People like to hear lies that they want or wish to be true. It’s easier to hypnotize people with suggestions that they want to hear. That’s why affirmations, both positive and negative hit the market for their target audience. Some people want to be told they’re good enough, while others want to be told they’re losers and never enough. Some want to hear that they’re the only ones that can save themselves, while others want to hear that it’s not their fault and things happen. These camps have different purposes for the affirmations being to motivate them into change or not-changing to redefine themselves or self-acceptance. So if you get a psych profile on people, like a good sociopath you-doggo-you, then you can tailor lies to feed into their desires. Tell them what they want to hear, that aligns with your interests or goals. Duh.
Usually I’m all about Truth and jazz, but I’m feeling a little Yin in my Yang today, so I’ll laid out some rather pragmatic but questionably unethical tips. As it turns out, both lies and truths are words, and those words mean things.
I personally don’t like lies, but I understand they have their time and place and we all tend to sin and fall astray towards it (lies). To be fair, I like the idea of Omerta, silence, I would not lie by omission by giving partial truths, I would much rather just be silent and not snitch. Of course, that depends on the stakes and degrees of loyalties or trust (I would easily betray someone for a joke or a prank, but not for things of real Gravitas like life-or-death).
Welp, I said my piece, so pay attention to the feelings or tendencies of people that live their life in lies, or the ones that expertly dance in the implied language of grey between the binary ideal of truth and falsehoods.
Truth is the blade, it can cut lies and set you free, just know that a cornered beast will resort to drastic measures. A dangerous animal is a man with nothing left to lose.
People can be ugly when they lie, and they can become even uglier when they’re caught red handed. Be prepared for that if you’re swinging your Sword of Truth everywhere.
Don’t go all Odin-stanning on me and poke your eye out accidentally trying to max discernment in wisdom and truth. But, uh, I’m not here to give advice so you do you.
Words Mean Things
Words Mean Things 
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