They say that no matter how dark the night, it cannot snuff the candle's glow.
Indeed.
No matter how overwhelming the truth, it cannot stop you from covering it with a lie, living in denial.
All vices are parasites on virtues; without some virtue, the vice is meaningless. A lie is always true in a sense; it is true that you just lied. It is true that the words or ideas you expressed were indeed the ones you expressed. It is true that the idea contradicts Reality. It is true that someone found them convincing, and they did so due to mechanics that can be truly studied and understood.
No, ultimately the candle snuffs itself. Lighting the candle is to, inevitably, destroy the candle. The only way to preserve that which powers the lie is to destroy the lie.
Likewise, no matter how bright the light, no matter how overwhelming, it cannot destroy the darkness lingering behind it. The darkness isn't gone, the light merely renders it invisible. The light is merely temporary. Contingent. The darkness is absolute and eternal.
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New failcomment system also fails to publish my comments, it's not limited to yours. Keep trying, it will usually work, eventually.
Blogger deliberately trying to kill itself, I expect.
Captchas should be off. If it gives you one anyway, it's against my explicit instructions.