WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
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A quotation from Mencken, H. L.:

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The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasant to believe.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
wist.info/mencken-hl/62118/

#quote #quotes #quotation #belief #falsehood #lie #pleasing #pleasure #subjectivity #truth

Last updated 1 year ago

Scholar-at-large · @lachance
52 followers · 177 posts · Server hcommons.social

The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. Psychologically defined, a symbol. Aesthetically defined, a metaphor.

Ursula K. Le Guin
1976 intro
The Left Hand of Darkness




#tricolon #metaphor #Symbol #falsehood

Last updated 1 year ago

JBRoss · @jbross
13 followers · 257 posts · Server mstdn.party

"I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth." — Matt Groening — — —

#mattgroening #quote #quotes #quip #snarky #lie #lying #falsehood #humor #humorous #funny

Last updated 1 year ago

JBRoss · @jbross
13 followers · 250 posts · Server mstdn.party

"The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to." — Bertie Charles Forbes — — —

#bcforbes #quote #quotes #truth #hurt #falsehood #false #deceit

Last updated 1 year ago

pmroman · @pmroman
84 followers · 1035 posts · Server home.social

@christine_broesenhuber The main difference between now and 50 years ago, is the fact that wasn't social, just media, meaning folks talking and giving their opinions were somehow and subject to standards. Today in "social" media any uneducated imbecile can speak freely, without standards, and poor to no knowledge, reaching an enormous audience made of people as ignorant and dumb as him, creating a -based movement, detached from reality and anchored in ignorance.

#media #falsehood #qualified

Last updated 1 year ago

Gregory B Sadler · @GregSadler
526 followers · 464 posts · Server metalhead.club

I asked Chat-GPT what it could tell me about myself, and the results were. . . interesting. . .

It says some nice things, but also tends to make stuff up, gets quite a bit wrong, attributes other people's work to me, and tells you it can't find information on stuff easy to dig up!

medium.com/gregory-b-sadler-ph

#falsehood #truth #identity #philosophy #fiction #chatgpt #artificialintelligence #ai

Last updated 1 year ago

yeti · @yeti
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Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌ · @ArenaCops
124 followers · 1795 posts · Server infosec.exchange

@mercedesallen 🤔 "Christian nationalists" coming out as not so much Christian at all, but rather peeping at National Socialist ideology & practices.

“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
— Matthew 19:14 —

#loveislove #fakechristians #bigotry #falsehood

Last updated 2 years ago

Dabi and me, Jas Z · @Iquitoz
4 followers · 56 posts · Server federate.social

Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies | CNN Business


[cnn.com/2023/01/17/tech/tesla-]

#tesla #selfdriving #elonmusk #falsehood #oops

Last updated 2 years ago

Mark Shue · @MarkShue
8 followers · 48 posts · Server SSelf.co

@TheViking
These delusional myths and superstitions used to be a tiny percentage of the population.

How did so many fall into the abyss?
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#falsehood #lies #truth

Last updated 2 years ago

· @OutOfExile_IDR
231 followers · 437 posts · Server disabled.social
helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

flies and the truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect

#jonathanswift #falsehood

Last updated 3 years ago