“Is it right to offer words of support that you don’t absolutely know as truth?“
We’ve all done this. Maybe. Someone is depressed, so you say “things will get better.” Someone is dying in the hospital and you say “you can handle this.” All the while it seems clear to self that things WON’T get better and your special someone probably CAN’T handle it.
That means a lot of the time you’re lying. Maybe someone dies. It happens.
Or are you telling the truth?
I suppose from a metaphysical perspective, things DID get better, for living is perhaps the lowest metaphysical state. (Not that Divine You wants to judge.) Passing on seems to present all sorts of positive opportunities.
But you don’t exactly tell someone “well if you die, good for you” now do you? Or you don’t say “well your life is going to seem EVEN WORSE for a while, but all experience is good when seen from a Divine Perspective.”
So you offer words of encouragement. Lies, perhaps from their perspective, but not from yours.
Still, we don’t absolutely know, now do we?
Maybe feeding people make believe is the best way to create truth. Maybe your suggestion that things will get better is enough to flip the belief switch, which flips the reality switch.
At the human level, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. At the soul level, it ALWAYS works. We just don’t know that it works.
Now ANY make believe has the same positive potential. It seems to lead to an experience that is appreciated by the soul. Not necessarily by the human, but by the soul.
Interesting.
So is it “right” to offer words of support that you don’t absolutely know as truth?
Sure, why not.
What say you?
8/22
Leave a Reply