“What I tell you three times is true.” Lewis Carrol
Why should I believe something is true? Now that I think about this quote it makes sense. Personally when I’m trying to learn something new I learn it through repetition and practice. Repetition is my way of sticking something to memory. I also believe that by getting my brain to accept the new material as true, then I am just reinforcing that new material to stay inside my brain.
“A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” William Blake
It sounds so simple, but as I put more thought into it, my ideas get bigger and bigger. This is an example that I came with, a simple way I could think of it. If I was retarded and a friend comes up to me after an argument and reminds me of my condition then that would be a truth told with bad intent, just to hurt me. But if that person picks on my height, or the way I talk, or even the way I’m fit, then that would probably hurt a lot less than the truth.
“Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.” Unknown
I can relate this quote with “What I tell you three times is true” because it goes back to: Can a lie be accepted as truth if it is constantly repeated? I’m not sure. I find that it can be possible even if the facts are not there to support the false statement. Best if the facts are not there. It can be very easy to begin a false statement and by having people conduct that statement it might become to a point where people believe it is true. If someone tells a friend a statement that is false, because there is nothing to support it and this friend tells another friend, who tells another friend, and soon this statement is known by everyone to be true. Repetition of this statement will cause it to be thought as true. A simple statement that is completely false can be accepted to be true by the general public.
