The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Armstrong First to step on the Moon

Without opining on the merits of any particular point of view:

Governments and media lie. They do so consistently, and for lots of reasons, but usually to promote agendas that are always obvious in hindsight, but often pretty clear even while those agenda are in their earliest stages.

They lie about everything, even when they don't need to. It's just that most (NOT all) of them are children of the devil, and lying is easier for them than telling the truth.

So as a first approximation, I presume that, pending evidence to the contrary, everything that governments or media tell us is wrong.

That applies not only to the "mainstream," but also most of the alleged opposition, which, most often, clearly and repeatedly exposes itself to be controlled opposition.

So whom do I believe:

1. God's Word. Anything contrary thereto is unworthy of further consideration.

2. The reasoned opinions of His saints through the ages, subject, of course, to the Word.

3. Those who have demonstrated some degree of credibility in the past. Subject again to #1.

4. The opposite of what proven liars say, write and publish, until/unless evidence to the contrary presents itself. Subject like all things to #1.

5. Let God be True, and every man a liar. If every man says we evolved, but God says we didn't, then we didn't. If God says He instituted marriage as between one man and one woman, then that is what marriage is. I simply don't care how popular the world's opinions are, or how unpopular the Word of God may be.

I'm sorry to be so cynical, but I've been dealing with this issue every since, as a teen, I was interviewed by a "reporter," and stuff I said off the record was published causing huge problems for other people, plus they got just about every single fact wrong. I sensed that it was not due to maliciousness, but rather simple indifference to truth. That was a long time ago, and things have only gotten worse since then. The vast majority of the people who claim their job is to "inform" the people have less than no credibility with me, and if one of them told me the sky was blue, I'd go get my vision checked.