Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00606)

At 01:29 PM 1/19/97 -0500, you wrote:
>And one should never forget that an interesting falsehood is better than a
>boring truth.
>
>Chuck the Heretic
>

Chuck:

I could not pass this one.

Once you start with a falsehood (interesting or not), then it will lead to
further falsehoods since there will be holes in the falsehood and so there
will be a chain of falsehoods. To keep up requires extra ordinary mental
effort because, each falsehood should not contradict any previous ones. And
also, if the falsehood is told on a person to person basis, then one has to
keep track of what falsehood was told to whom and also this applies to the
chain of falsehoods. It is very demanding on the memory and exercises the
brain very well. So it appears falsehoods are very challenging.

A truth is simple and does not change and no burden on the memory and does
not need much of a mental effort.

MKR