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Jan 09 2 comments
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The Complexion of Your Lies

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What is the complexion of your lies?  Do they really lead darker?  Tell me a story about a white lie.

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Drawing by Marty Coleman

Quote by William S. Paley

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Trivia question of the day

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What year did Televisions appear on retail shelves?

  • 1932
  • 1938
  • 1942
  • 1950

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

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Aug 27 0 comments
Anonymous, honesty, lies, truth, Truth & Lies

>It Is Easier To Believe A Lie Heard

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Day #5 of Lying Week at The Napkin Dad Daily
There is only one way to know if you are being told lies.  You MUST be a self-educator.  

Where might you be told lies?  We can start with religion, culture, science, nationality, race, education, government, nutrition, fitness, illness, sexuality or history.  The list goes on and on.

In those situations (and many more) how do you know if you are being told lies or not? Maybe you aren’t, maybe you are.  But how do you know?  You know if you seek answers from multiple sources.  If you are in a ghetto then you aren’t likely to get those multiple sources.  (I don’t use the word ghetto in a derogatory fashion. It’s original meaning was a place isolated from it’s surrounding area for one reason or another. I am using simply as a description of isolation.)

I don’t mean a physical ghetto. I mean an intellectual ghetto, a mental awareness walled off from the wider world.  If you only listen to people and ideas that come from within that intellectual ghetto, then there is a good chance you will have a distorted view.  At the least you will have a view by default. It won’t be one you came to be exploration, it will be one you came to by taking the path of least resistance and not taking responsibility for your own thorough education.

I have known a number of people, for example, within the Christian community who think they have thought through an issue. But in truth they have simply mulled over a pre-determined, pre-packaged ‘thoughts ready to think’ supplied by those in charge of their ghetto.  They haven’t read or listened to ideas outside that ghetto.  This is true in both liberal and conservative congregations I have been a part of.  So, while they believe they have come to their own conclusions, their lack of objective exploration outside the ghetto belies that assumption.  

To be fair, I do know many, including the Pastors of the two churches I attend regularly (one liberal, one conservative), who are constantly exploring outside the confines of their own congregation’s leanings and heritage.  

I appreciate and applaud the people who do this.  They are the ones I trust to be truly searching for truth.

Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

Quote by Anonymous

Aug 26 0 comments
honesty, lies, truth, Truth & Lies

>I've Seen Honest Faces Before

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Day #4 of ‘Lying Week’ at The Napkin Dad Daily
Smiles don’t equal honesty.  Beauty does not equal honesty.  Handsomeness, charm, sincere listening, thoughtful words…none of those things equal honesty.  Honesty is not in a face, not in eyes, not in a voice. Honesty is only in one place, and that is action.  That action might be true words spoken, yes.  But honesty is most likely to be seen in what a person does, not what they say. And especially not what they look like.

Those who say ‘he has an honest face’ are fooling themselves.  Faces aren’t honest, people are.

Drawing by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

Quote by ….. Willow from the TV Series ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’.

Aug 25 1 comments
Jewish Proverbs, lies, truth, Truth & Lies

>Truth is the Safest Lie

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Day #3 of Lying Week at The Napkin Dad Daily
I think this is a great quote.  What it says to me is that telling the truth is an art.  It is within the realm of truth that you are allowed the greatest leeway.  You can craft that truth in such a way that it is kinder or meaner, transparent or opaque, light-hearted or deadly serious.

Manipulating the truth is not the same as crafting the truth.  Crafting it means you use your wisdom and knowledge to say something the best way you can.  Manipulating the truth means you use your knowledge to make that truth sound like it is a different truth, a truth you want your rabid followers to hear for example, or that you tell to get money or attention.  Those manipulated truths are half-truths, they are mutated truths.  And those are lies.

You can see it in politicians but even more so you can see it in the mean-spirited demagogues who rule the airwaves.  They aren’t interested in the truth, they are interested in manipulating people to do what they want.  And what they want is to have adulation, power, prestige and money.  It’s the most depressing thing I know about modern society at this time.  It is an embarrassment and they should be ashamed.  But they aren’t.

Drawing by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

Quote is a Jewish proverb

Aug 24 0 comments
Anonymous, lies, truth, Truth & Lies

Beware of the Half-Truth

 

Day #2 of ‘Lying Week’ at The Napkin Dad Daily
The Half-Truth is an animal whose mother was a purebred Truth and whose father was a purebred Lie.  They fooled around and next thing you know this creature was born.  A Half-Truth can only breed with a Lie. It can’t breed with a purebred Truth.  Each successive generation will be more and more like a purebred Lie.

It is a very sneaky creature. It lives among Truths by disguising itself to look like one.  It usually gets away with this for a while but it always gives itself away by being angrier and more secretive than a Truth.  The other Truths always can sniff out the Half-Truth after a while and usually kick it out of the clan.  It will go off looking for another tribe of Truths but almost never can sneak in, since the original Truths have warned all the other tribes of his coming.

Catching a Half-Truth is very hard.  It will bite you if you try to catch it from the front so it’s best to try to catch it’s tail.  Of course if you catch it by the tail it will always quickly jerk around and bite you.  It is not an easy task.  The best advice is if you come across a Half-Truth it’s best to walk way out of its way.  Don’t try to make friends with it, it will bite you.  Don’t try to feed it, it will just get stronger and more ferocious.  Don’t try to cage it unless you are very sure the cage is escape proof.  Do remember, the Half-Truth is very slippery and can get out of even the smallest of openings.

The best thing to do is to keep the Truths and the Lies completely separate so no Half-Truths are born in the first place.  Stay near the Truths’ den and don’t let any Lies come close. They will try to charm you and get you to let them go in, but if you allow it, they will try to take advantage of the Truth and breed with it.  

Drawing by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by Anonymous

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