[OneWingedShark]

Fiction - the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author or actors.
Why would you believe anything someone that does this for a living would say?

Maybe because the author is dealing with a philosophical situation; your mode-of-thought rejects hypothetical situations... and parables.
In fact, let's take one famous teller of parables: Jesus. Given that a parable is a fiction then, by your own words, you should not believe what he has to say using them, no?

How can you tell when they are not just doing their job, or using their job skills to try to persuade you to different thinking?

Maybe by their fruits?
Maybe by the message of their fictional work... like this:

Or this:

Or this:

But perhaps the ultimate foolishness of your stance is to equate imagination with lies; wouldn't that make the imaginative little boy at play on-par with the most dastardly perjurer? the little girl playing with dolls and a doll-house on par with the common liar?

[Delta 21]

Of course its by their fruits.

You actually want me equate C.S.Lewis with Bruce Willis? !! ?

Thats like you thinking that Jessie “The Body” is gonna carry a mini-gun into the Governors mansion and “not have time to bleed”. (I wouldn’t even begin to think that you would do that, by the way.)((You didn’t? Did you??))

Anything else you want to assume about me?