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To: TBP123

“IT’S NOT A LIE IF YOU BELIEVE IT”

Well, that’s BS.


6 posted on 01/22/2023 10:23:35 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself. 111 is the key.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Of course it’s still a lie. But if a weak mind believes it to be true, then that weak mind won’t see it IS a lie and therefore perceives it to be true.

Think about it. The author isn’t saying it ISN’T a lie. He’s saying to people who believe the lie believe it is the truth.

Think of all the weak minds who believed the many lies the Deep State wove about Trump and they “know” they were true. Think about all the weak minds who believe the “systemic racism” and the “US is a racist country” lies and they “know” those are truths.


12 posted on 01/22/2023 10:35:05 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: SaxxonWoods
“IT’S NOT A LIE IF YOU BELIEVE IT”

Well, that’s BS.

No, it's the English language:

"Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edn

lie, n. 1

1. a. An act or instance of lying; a false statement made with intent to deceive; a criminal falsehood. Phrase, to tell (formerly to make) a lie. Also, without lie, no lie, truly (often as an expletive in ME. poetry; cf. without fable). In mod. use, the word is normally a violent expression of moral reprobation, which in polite conversation tends to be avoided, the synonyms falsehood and untruth being often substituted as relatively euphemistic."

If you believe it, by definition you can't be stating it with intent to deceive, therefore it is not a lie.

A lie requires two factors, knowing it's a falsehood and stating it with intent to deceive. Absent either of those qualifiers it is not and cannot be a lie.

Getting the wrong answer on an algebra test isn't a lie unless you knew the correct answer and got it wrong anyway.

30 posted on 01/22/2023 12:38:05 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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