NotfooledbyW
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9thIDdoc wrote: A lie is a knowingly false statement. 21DEC27-POST#0932
NFBW wrote: A lie is also an inaccurate or untrue statement; a falsehood that continues to exist in the the minds of people who unwittingly, willfully and emotionally desire to believe it out of fear, or belief in getting something better than what they have? Lies are used to prey on poorly educated weak and fragile people.
Does it matter to reasonable people if Jim Jones was “knowingly lying or rather had convinced himself his promises to his followers of a utopia in the jungles of South America after proclaiming himself messiah of the Peoples Temple, was truth?
Jones was a liar was he not? His lies brought tragedy, death and mass murder. Lies brought this
NFBW wrote: A lie is also an inaccurate or untrue statement; a falsehood that continues to exist in the the minds of people who unwittingly, willfully and emotionally desire to believe it out of fear, or belief in getting something better than what they have? Lies are used to prey on poorly educated weak and fragile people.
Does it matter to reasonable people if Jim Jones was “knowingly lying or rather had convinced himself his promises to his followers of a utopia in the jungles of South America after proclaiming himself messiah of the Peoples Temple, was truth?
Jones was a liar was he not? His lies brought tragedy, death and mass murder. Lies brought this
- Jones enacted his “revolutionary suicide” plan at the compound, which members had “practiced” in the past, in which a fruit drink was laced with cyanide, tranquilizers, and sedatives. It was first squirted into the mouths of babies and children via syringe and then imbibed by adult members. 21DEC28-POST#0941