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4bonhoffer

(238 posts) Thu May 28, 2026, 06:49 AM Thursday

Cost of lies

What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we’ll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear, enough lies, then we will no longer recognize the truth at all.

What can we do then?
Opening lines from the series CHERNOBYL.

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Cost of lies (Original Post) 4bonhoffer Thursday OP

Well, when most of what you say is lies and propaganda... that is what you get. OldBaldy1701E Thursday #1

OldBaldy1701E

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1. Well, when most of what you say is lies and propaganda... that is what you get.

Reply to 4bonhoffer (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2026, 07:28 AM

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A lesson that we as a nation have not yet learned.

(You'd think this nation is populated with benevolent gods, reading some of the crap I used to hear in class.)

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