About Truth..

Liars aren't our heroes say some moral conventionalists.

Thou shalt not lie is one of the most dubious commandments, and one of the most difficult to fulfill. Think of the good people who hid innocent Jews from the Nazis in the second world war; now think of all the lies they had to tell in order to avoid getting caught. If these protectors brought food to their protected ones and someone asked where they were going, they would have to lie. If neighbours heard the lonesome, desperate, confused cries of a Jewish child in the night and they asked what that was, the child's protectors would have to lie. If the churchyard was suddenly hushed with an alive and ghostly silence, secrecy, and suspicion because it had a threatened child in its basement then that child's protectors would have to lie. They couldn't tell anybody anything. It takes just one person to tattle.

How brazen the preacher men on channel ten are to claim that they know the truth. All of their truths are different yet each one of them claims that their truth is the truth truth. I wouldn't even have the confidence to believe that I know the truth, that my wisdom is wisdom wisdom. I doubt everything I say and I believe there is always a deeper truth to be found. Everything everybody says is a lie especially to those who believe that there is always a deeper truth to be found. And those who acknowledge that we have much less truths in our mouths, have much more truth in their spirits.

These are examples of how a lie can sometimes bear more integrity than the truth. Those lies protected innocent children. Those lies tailored the development of, the pursuit of truth. And those brave enough to tell them were the uncelebrated heroes of a meaningless war game, a soulful education and wisdom.

So I guess liars really can be our heroes.

Elaine 07