Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1974 wrote an Essay Live not by Lies. It is worth reading still today.
I have several update observations based on it, ways that people have tried to make me live by lies.
“Stop shouting/yelling at me!”
People accuse me of this quite often, usually, but not always, when I have actually lowered my voice, speaking softer, slower, with pauses for punctuation. But what I am almost always doing when they say it is contradicting the lie they are trying to tell me. “Stop shouting/yelling at me” means don’t correct or contradict what I said, treat my lie as the truth, I don’t want my bubble burst. Live by my lie.
That I am shouting or yelling is a bald-faced lie, yet just saying it gets many to accept it as truth, unthinking, and thus accept the other lie the person is putting forth, without even realizing they are doing it. Most people are already so conditioned.
“You can’t lash out at people like that.”
This is another saying that means don’t correct or contradict what someone else said, he just came to me crying because someone burst his bubble. accept his lie as truth. Live by his lie.
This one happened to me at a church, when I tried to correct someone who always, always (well almost always) spoke critically of everyone and everything. When I pointed this out, I got fired from my job because this person, “never criticized anyone or anything. That is just unlike her.”
Yet Jasini and I never, but once or twice, ever heard her say anything that wasn’t critical. And there was a whole CHURCH full of people living the lie that this petite and petty 19 year old girl was all sweetness and light, totally not critical at all. It was such a good cover that we were deceived for several months, not that the girl was sweetness and light, but failed to realize how deeply the devil had invaded and taken over, and RULED that church.
At The Rainbow 