Do you believe that truth is stranger than fiction?
I think the proof is in the pudding.
The truth often times seem like a lie,but are very true.
To be honest, nowadays it is difficult to tell them apart. Truth is counted as fiction and fiction received as truth. Strange!
Truth is often difficult for us mere mortals to accept. For generations, men have enjoyed living a lie rather than accepting the truth.
For example, the Catholic Church insisted that the Earth was the center of the universe for a long time. When Galileo insisted that this view was wrong based on his observations, the Church condemned his view as 'contrary to scripture'. He was tried on heresy, forced to claim he was wrong, and spent the rest of his life imprisoned by the Holy Church...for a lie.
Even now, various 'truths' are wrong...yet to challenge them is to invite condemnation. Jesus was not born on Christmas Day, according to Bible scholars, yet it is an accepted 'truth', despite the fact the holiday was clearly stolen from the pagans.
It's my view that people cling to a fiction because it's more comforting than the truth. Truth requires a brutality of mind, the willingness to accept what is than to cling to what one wants to believe. Truth requires a dedication to objectivity...something many in religion cannot accept because it clashes with 'faith'. and 'belief'. Take for example the current clash between those believers in Evolution and those believers in Creationism. Which is true? How do we know? This question is much harder to define in terms of truth, because there's no way to 'prove' a creator as a fact. And evolution has serious questions to answer before it can become a 'truth'.
Truth isn't 'strange', it just IS. Fiction is the birthplace of a lie. It's that simple.
All fiction comes from truths. Indeed, some truths may be stranger than fiction.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson
Our existance is in itself, already stranger than fiction.
We just don't notice it anymore...
I think some people wouldn't be able to handle the truth so they rather live in their world where everything's okay even though deep inside they know it's not true.
But a lie will always be a lie.
by telltale 15 years ago
Is the truth stranger than fiction, as the saying goes?
by poetvix 14 years ago
Which do you feel produces a better piece, writes resulting from real experiences and events from the author’s life though they may be hidden in a cloak of fiction or writes that are purely fiction having no associations to the authors real life or experiences and why?
by Lori J Latimer 12 years ago
Truth is always stranger than fiction, but fiction always has at least a thread of truth.Why do authors include the disclaimer that any likeness to any person living or dead is purely coincidental? If an author uses people from their past, and they are not harming them, or being defamatory,...
by Peter Hoggan 15 years ago
If you can't laugh at this your funny bone is broke!http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/ … imination/
by Tricia Mason 13 years ago
Hi I would like to know, please, if any Christian members of this community accept evolutionary theory as true; or if anyone knows any Christians, who believe that evolution is true?Thanks
by Robert Erich 12 years ago
Can you be Christian and accept the theory of Evolution?Christianity says man was created by God. Evolution says man evolved from a small amoeba over time. Is it possible to believe both or must we choose one or the other?
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