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Post: the great enemy of truth
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Posted by: lencoo12
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[QUOTE=Suhas Tambe;38040]Good piece Omamana, about the phenomenon of ‘selective perception’.
A lie and a myth seem to differ in yet another way. A lie occurs first as an intention and the liar constructs suitable articulation to deliver it. While myth is a delivered result like a web woven out of sticky half-truths, mostly unintentional.
A liar has a cunning design that seeks an effect beyond the lie; and so any attempts to disprove the lie may meet with more lies because the liar is not interested in the truth, but only the effect. You can kill a lie by ignoring and not engaging with.
While a myth-bearer usually detests intellectual probes and is eager to lean on ‘something’ unaware that it is a half-truth. So, a myth can be busted by waking him/her up by providing better or pure truth to lean on. But, the wake-up call has to be genuine, warm and patient; not loud, intellectual and arrogant. That makes it so tough these days.
Myth is justified by the Myth-bearer as faith. If I say to a believer if there is any evidence for what they believe, if there is none, they will fall back on faith - “I believe because I believe” Sometimes this is harmless, but at other times it becomes dangerous. Countless wars have been waged on the grounds of faith.
In Hinduism and Buddhism faith is seen as an infection of the mind. It is a terrible disease which weakens our intellect and leaves us vulnerable to the germs of ignorance and vice.
This is why I tell everybody to stick to evidence and never venture outside of evidence into faith and speculation.[/quote]