ring-a-ding-ding

[breck403]

While I am sunk into quite a few end-of-year projects to finish up, thought I would take a few moments to put down what is an appropriate line of thought to keep in mind for 2007 a little early

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Bang!

[keith418]

This is the way the OTO leaders try to make "intention" higher than the truth.

Wait, there's more!

[breck403]

"Both in lying and telling the truth people are guided by their beliefs concerning the way things are. These guide them as they endeavor either to describe the world correctly or to describe it deceitfully. For this reason, telling lies does not tend to unfit a person for telling the truth in the same way that bullshitting tends to. Through excessive indulgence in the latter activity, which involves making assertions without paying attention to anything except what it suits one to say, a person's normal habit of attending to the ways things are may become attenuated or lost. Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays