vesta, have you really made it to the sixth or seventh decade of life without knowing the answer to that question?
My son knew the definition of "truth", and the importance of telling the truth, before he was 5 years old.
All so true Big Dog but at times telling the truth gets your Ass in a sling and to remain quite about the truth makes you a liar.
What the heck was the name of the movie where a man had to tell the truth for 24 hours ??? Very funny and all so true.
Now there are so called pathological liars out there, I have to ask do they believe they are telling lies or have they in their mind believe what they say is true.
People can direct a persons mental make up, brain washing, or subliminal suggestion.
Remember all the trials of people running child care centers. 9 out of 10 of the interviewers led the children into false memory's, the kids watched the interviewer to see when any question asked was greeted with a smile or frown.
Adults do the same, A good manipulator can cause all the scams on the well educated to believe in them. A few years ago a Brain surgeon was taken in on those scams from overseas. Took his life savings, he had been manipulated to believe what was imposable was the truth, yet he threw common sense out the window to make some bad mistakes.
Reason is why when people tell me they and only them have the TRUTH I back off and wonder just what their truth is.