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I'm amazed at people preferring living under a lie for the rest of their lives and dying like that than finding out the truth in case it might be bitter. I woul
by fizixer 12y ago
I'm amazed at people preferring living under a lie for the rest of their lives and dying like that than finding out the truth in case it might be bitter. I would trade a supernuclear family for truth any day of the week.
Slightly off topic, but no wonder it's also difficult to make people realize the reality about religion(s). The same 'ignorance is bliss' head-in-the-sand mentality is working behind the scenes many times.
- hueving 12y ago>I would trade a supernuclear family over truth any day of the week. This is interesting. If you had an incredibly happy life, why would you always choose potentially emotionally damaging truth over that? Especially if the alternative is that you never know there is a lie and that lie doesn't actually matter.
- jacquesm 12y agoI have a hard time envisioning 'emotionally damaging truth'. More truth is always better, even if it is uncomfortable. Operating on un-truths can be damaging, truth should allow you to function better, not worse. The problem with this story is that effectively nothing had changed that wasn't already there. I found out my dad had been married prior to being married to my mom. It's a long and interesting story but it never made me think less of him (insofar as that was still possible), in fact in some ways it redeemed him and made me understand him a little bit better.