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...or believe a truth that would destroy you.
Thinly veiled religious debate thread is thinly veiled.
If I knew it was a lie I couldn't believe it. If I didn't know it was a lie there was no choice in the matter.
If I knew it was a lie I couldn't believe it. If I didn't know it was a lie then there is no choice in the matter.
Of course. But in this hypo, if you had a choice...???
It depends on the semantics here. I don't believe that you choose to believe things, you do or you don't. Until you accept a truth, it isn't your reality. An ego-centric outlook, maybe, but a "truth" nonetheless.
You can live within a lie but this is most often ends in disaster. A common example would be a friend of mine who lived as straight man in a monogamous relationship with house and kids and all of that. It ended in unspeakable tragedy.
If you accept a devastating truth, then whether or not you are "destroyed" is up to you. If you can't recover, rebuild or reinvent yourself? Perhaps you aren't letting yourself do so.
Geek alert: I am so thinking of the first episode of Firefly and the final scenes of Serenity because of this thread.
Did your friend go through a messy divorce or are you referring to actual carnage?
If I knew it was a lie I couldn't believe it. If I didn't know it was a lie then there is no choice in the matter.
If I knew it was a lie I couldn't believe it. If I didn't know it was a lie then there is no choice in the matter.