Beliefs based strictly on evidence tend to be true despite one's biases. That's the wonder of science. That we can attain real knowledge about the world even though every one of us is laden with subjective biases and assumptions.
Making your own shit up and
not acknowledging it's your own shit made up is
not a path to truth; it's
not science and it is
certainly not a path to "real" knowledge.
Knowingly telling a falsehood is calling lying.
That is not a lie because I really do believe it to be true.,
MR wants to retry his case. He wants someone to bring it back into the courtroom for him, because he can't do it himself without incriminating himself in the process. That's why he keeps demanding references - references to things that are on-record, and that he knows exactly where to find. He wants the onus on his accusers to re-accuse him, because he failed his original defense.
A non-troll would take their lumps, accept responsibility and would
change their behaviour so as to go forward not continuing to troll and lie.
But sure. Let's lay it out
AGAIN.
The lie comes in here (wait for it, it comes at the end):
- MR recounts a witness account
(OK)
- MR inserts his own beliefs (such as "lit windows") into the description
(this is deceitful, but can yet be corrected)
- MR is called out on inserting his own conclusions in what was ostensibly a description i.e. MR is simply told that he made that part up, that it was not part of the witness account
(no harm no foul yet)
- MR then explicitly repeats the made up part as if it is part of the description of the account and not something he made up. (this is the lie)
Here's why: As you point out,
a lie is knowingly telling a falsehood.
You knew that there is no mention in the account of lit windows. You kept saying the UAP had lit windows, even when called out that that is not true.
So, making something up is not the lie, and being
called out for making something up is not a lie.
But repeatedly posting it when you know you made it up - because it is on-record as having been inserted by you and you were called out to acknowledge it - that is the lie. Repeating "lit windows" in your account multiple times, rather than acknowledging you inserted that term yourself was
knowingly telling a falsehood.
To be clear: No one takes umbrage with your belief that the windows might have been lit. But you were called out for making that up and asked to acknowledge that you made it up. Not only did not you correct that misdirection, but you continued to repeat it, even after you knew it was challeged as not true and made up.
All you had to do was say "OK, yes. That part was inserted by me. It was not mentioned anywhere in the account".
And it's not a mistake because
1] You had several chances in-thread to correct it, and you didn't.
2] Instead you re-asserted it several times, even in the shadow of it being called out as made up.
3] You've been schooled several times on what, where and how the lie occurred (and we'll add +1 to this number now), so you know better.
4] You have used the same deceitful ploy elsewhere, since.
FFS.
