LOOKING AT THE LIES OF LANGUAGE

WE ALL LIVE IN A world of communication. IT IS FILLED WITH bELLOWING, BUZZING, cHIRPING, GRUNTING, HOWLING, ROARING, SNORTING AND TWEETING. THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE WAYS CREATURES INTERACT. LANGUAGE IS THE ONLY "TOOL" AMONG THE MULTIPLE SYSTEMS OF COMMUNICATION UNIQUE TO man. conversATION IS THE CONDUIT FOR LAnguage. THE MAIN PURPOSE OF CONVERSATION IS TO ACCURATELY CONVEY A THOUGHT OR A POSITION. ANY LACK OF cONCISE CONVEYANCE AND PRECISION IN LANGUAGE BELIES ACCURATE EXCHANGE. GOOD COMMUNICATION REQUIREs MORE THAN JUST casual EFFORT. WE NEED TO BE CAUTIOUS WITH THE "NATTER" OF informal CHAT. 

ALL WORDS CARRY MEANINGFUL "SPIRITUAL" SIGNIFICANCE. ThE TERM "SPIRITUAL" HERE, REFERS to the POWER AND FORCE OF THE energy WITHIN THE ARTICULATED OR WRITTEN WORDS. TODAY'S LOW STANDARDS OF INTEGRITY ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED AND ADOPTED BY DEFAULT. TODAY THERE APPEARS NO MANDATE TO DISTINGUISH LIES FROM TRUTH.
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​THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO ALL LIES. TO BE DECEIVED BY A LIE WE MUST FIRST BELIEVE THAT LIE. BY ACCEPTING CONDITIONAL LYING WE ALSO ADOPT TRADITIONAL DECEPTION. FROM TIME TO TIME MOST OF US WILL KNOWINGLY OR UNKNOWINGLY COMPROMISE TRUTH. THE MORALS OF SOCIETY ARE SUBCONSCIOUSLY INGRAINED, GENERALLY REFLECTED AND OFTEN PRACTICED WITHIN THE LIES OF OUR LANGUAGE. THE LATITUDE GIVEN TO LYING AFFECTS EVERY EXPRESSION UTTERED TODAY. DECEPTIVE COMMUNICATION IS SO PREVALENT THAT without SCRUTINIZing EVERY PHRASE FOR ACCURACY we will be deceived. THE RHETORIC IS OVERWHELMING TO THOSE WHO ARE AWARE OF IT. 

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THE BUTCHERING OF LANGUAGE HAS NOW BECOME A PRACTICED SKILL SET FOR COMMENTATORS AND POLITICIANS, WHILE SOMEWHAT OF A HABIT AND HOBBY FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC. WE HAVE STOOPED TO A NEW LOW IN RHETORIC AND LIES BY all kinds of PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE. BY ACCEPTING PERSONAL DEFINITIONS, ADOPTING SLANG AND ALLOWING ANYONE TO SPEAK THEIR OWN TRUTH we've embrace deception. no one has their own truth! the truth cannot be owned. the truth must be discovered, exposed OR revealed. anyone, anything OR anybody CAN DELIVER TRUTH. simply possessing truth does not imply authorship or ownership. here are THREE COMMON examples of overlooked everyday lies.

The lie with the most longevity is that "History repeats itself."
The most destructive lie is the insignificant "white lie."
Any compromise of integrity allows the "Big Lie." 

There's an old proverb that says, "the next teacher we need will surely appear." Our job is to be ready and teachable. The new teacher has one agenda; not to teach us a lesson, but for us to learn the lesson it is teaching. When it is necessary our new teacher can be seemingly cold, heartless and tough. These teachers understand the powerful internal forces of our egos and biased thinking. Sometimes it takes a dramatic event like addiction, sickness or death to finally listen to the voice of the teacher that has been speaking to us. As we meet these teachers throughout our lives many of us ignore or resist them. These teachers are more like shepherds. As we get to know them well, we respond to the sound of their voice which never changes. As Jesus said "My sheep hear my voice."

History does not repeat itself. History simply gives an account of what has already occurred. History often resembles itself but can never be identical. History appears different when the learned lessons of the past are properly applied. History looks the same when we behave the same under similar circumstances. We're the ones who characterize this lie though using slights of words that are seemingly  insignificant. We don't repeat history, we repeat mistakes historically.

"White Lies" form the perimeter of Black holes! The term "White Lies," is derived from telling a "harmless" lie to protect or spare someones feelings. The origins of this expression are not rooted in racism, it's worse than that. It is the premise for moral failure.  A lie for any reason is a lie. There are no good or bad ones. The idea that someone can hurt our feelings is preposterous. Feelings are what we hurt through, they cannot be hurt themselves. A "white lie" is uttered under the assumption that we can intentionally perform evil in the expectation for good to come out of it. 

The "big lie" is that one lie is differs in gravity from another. The spiritual realm makes no distinctions for offenses. He that offends in one point is guilty of all. Lies have no degrees of intensity or severity we give that to them. We are not obligated to every intention we have, but we are obligated to every "word of promise" we speak. Expect to make enemies by speaking the TRUTH. However remember to speak the TRUTH in love. It is not our job to get others straight, teach them a lesson or enact revenge. The TRUTH, is that the motivation for correction should be the edification of the offender rather than the aggrandizement of the corrector.

All lies are rooted in distraction, deception or destruction. Lying is learned and improves through practice.  We are holistic beings and whatever energy we put into one aspect of ourselves, affects every other aspect of our being. There is no such thing as an act of God for those who do not believe in God. Insurance companies that profess theology must create policies that exclude acts of God. The general idea that all of life is connected is a principle of spirituality. It’s well known that both our mental and physical health can improve when we subject them to spiritual principles. ​