nov 7 - essay - The Quiet Voice

nov 7 - essay

11/7/2013

Today, an essay "Dumb, Dumb, and Dumber" under "Essays" on the website. FK

Cal Roeker

11/11/2013 12:55:29 am

"Oh what a tangled web we weave
when first we practice to deceive"
Sir Walter Scott

Okay I admit. I have ventured into those treacherous waters myself. Not in the way that the Quiet Voice students did but in other ways. Little white lies that seem harmless at the time suddenly become a tangled mess of who said what, and who knows what. I wonder if it is part of human nature or just an easy way out ? Food for thought.

RB Rooson

11/12/2013 08:50:29 am

We have always arrived at a moment where the truth could be defined as "that which you can make other people believe." The methodology for creating that belief is repetition. Say something enough times and it becomes, for many people, the truth.

This is why control of the media equals control of the populace. And also why a state run television news channel is so very dangerous. We do not have reporters, we have "headline readers" and the average attention span of an American is about the length of a popsicle stick, so we would argue this has already happened and that a certain cable news channel is actually a covert extension of our government. The fact that the channel is run by a high-ranking party official, an anchor person from the channel became a White House spokesman, and another top-ranking party official became an on-air news commentator (ahh, headline reader...) is often used to make this argument. Of course, this fact would be entirely inconsequential if the oft-repeated falsehoods they attempt to imbed into the Zeitgeist were simply amusing, or at worst, inane. But, unfortunately, that is not the case.

The heavy repetition of falsehoods and what they gain are by no means inconsequential. Which is why each and every Christian should use whatever resources we have at our disposal to disseminate the actual truth.

A"white lie" is still a lie, and leads to the tangled web of Roeker's observations. The God of Technology as recognized by Fred's previous comments, gives a tremendous amount of "perceived credibility" to each and every lie perpetrated.....so is modern America.....the popsicle stick culture and the repetitive bombardment are way too much for the hoi polio to overcome....!

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