I want to apologize to everyone for missing the last couple of days. You know that My circumstances create absurd scheduling and safety challenges and it doesn’t help that I work a very volatile schedule with no set time limit for any subject of interest which isn’t helped by My ADHD which causes Me to stop whatever I might be working on for whatever catches My eye at the moment. Last night I went to tune up a drawing but ended up spending five hours on it accidentally and fell asleep around 5:30a.m. which means that everything else was neglected. So I’ll try to make it up to you.

Ok, so two days ago we had a graphic that was published by a group of psychologists on deception and I’ll post another one today. The previous one had an interesting take on the purpose behind the deception.

Since we now know the 11 or so types of deception–deny, fabricate, half-truth, false implicature, false witness, augmentation, abstraction, contrived distraction, obfuscation, equivocation, understatement, overstatement–and I would like to add one other, concealment–we now take a look at why they are used.

Now previously we noted that there were four principle reasons using one heuristic. They were to acquire something, to stop something, to get someone to continue something and to prevent something from happening.

But there is another means by which this is useful to us even if only as theoretical exercise (yeah, right) and that is the ability to influence decisions.

Take a look at the graphic above and you will see a radically different purpose behind the lies. The purposes now become these five:

     Corruption

     Denial

     Overt Degradation

     Covert Degradation

     Subversion

And you will notice from the chart that these feed into the decision making process by our mark in different way THEREFORE knowing the purpose of the deception is key before one just starts fibbing. The kind of lie and it’s purpose become necessary knowledge to influence very specific processes in the decion-maker’s thinking processes.

I’m evil. I know.

But who else teaches you that you have to add vice to your personal arsenal in self-development (see the video 7-AP on the YouTube channel), huh? No one! Only Me!

Is Christ teaching us how to deceive? Well…yes and no.

Technically this is an advanced subject for mature minds not for the immature who think they were just cleared to do whatever they please. That’s gross misinterpretation and the simple and the young will fall prey to it.

(As an aside, I will tell you that the notion of a “free man” to be in a state of gross distortion for the same reasons–it’s being enacted by those who misunderstand the what it is. A free man is only one who had their civil liberties and human liberties respected. Actually at the time civil liberties had not existed yet. But without them one is a slave and without recourse. Therefore the freeman was free to vote, buy, own, sell, marry, bear children, travel, take jobs in government and so on.

But because of the doctrine of Supremacy, that I should be in superior position to everyone else–everyone with equal rights becomes an unattractive and untenable situation. I can’t be on top if we all have the same latitude.

What to do?

You work on restricting the rights of everyone else while granting yourself even MORE latitude then before.

Behold the police-state!

Within the police-state, as a member if you should happen to be so lucky, you find yourself with not only your civil and human rights respected BUT YOU ALSO GET technologies that grant you intrusive ability into the lives of your neighbors. You see the “greater latitude” I referred to earlier was not the allowance to drink until 6 a.m. while everyone else had to stop at 2 a.m because you’ve earned it–no–what I refer to is the ability to snoop, stalk, steal, murder, assault, sexually assault, covertly communicate and read the minds of those around you; the ability to intrude at will into the homes of others.

Illegal yes, but increasingly common, too. This is the Supremacist’s fantasy that will insure that everyone who is a member of the police state is head  and shoulders above those who are not. And THAT dear friends was not the original meaning or conceptualization of a free man (save the areas where slavery was practiced. What I refer to is a more contemporary definition where there are no slaves as slave masters had the ability to intrude into the personal lives of their slaves.), the original concept was simply a man with his civil and human rights.

Today’s version of a “free man” looks more like a person who is criminally insane. He gives himself permission to all sorts of vice and intrusions yet regards them as justified as these are done in the service of himself.)

The truth of the matter is that there will be times in your life when deception will be necessary.

Some may make it from point A to B without telling a single lie or sin. But the majority of us will not be able to do that.

The key and the difference lie in the utilitarian ethics and the mature minds that can keep their wits despite personal turmoil.

But I digress. Twice. Sorry.

So we now know that the purposes of our deceptions serve five possible purposes and those five possibilities serve three possible purposes which are Increase Uncertainty, False Perception and False Interpretation and that the first of these is objectively to influence the gamesmanship (behaviors) of the person or the final possible objective at the end of this schema, decisions (decisions).

Have a great day.

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