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Dogmother
I'm just reading a great book by author Al Franken from the New York Times bestseller list Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them....
Going back to the Jeremy Kyle Show, did you all hear Dave starting the second part with calling my daughter a liar? On British television, in front of over a million viewers? How about that? Kate, if you are reading this, it's about kidney donation and being unable to coerse my daughter--what a shame--because she lied about not having a spare kidney.
Well, well, Dave. This is something I know all about. I was with her at Charing Cross Hospital when a famous Harley Street surgeon operated on her small body (she was less than a year old in 1971). The operation lasted six long hours and saved my daughter's life. She is not the lying liar who tells lies, you are.
Oh yes DogMa, I am reading this, and I do hear you, and it is a truly horrifying and deeply saddening report.
So can we get this straight :
Annette is called a liar for not having clarified that the 6 hr surgical procedure she underwent at one year of age had the end result of her only having 1 kidney working, as opposed to only having 1 kidney?I'd be very surprised if we didn't all describe some of the events from our first year of life with some degree of inaccuracy when relating them many years later, let alone when general anaesthetic has been involved.
I understand that Dave does accept that the aged can suffer from confusion and memory problems without earning themselves the title of "liar". Surely then we can all appreciate the generalities of youth in the same way?
So saying however, I must also note that the title "liar" is very freely given out to anyone expressing anything that may be painted as being in opposition to the JC community. I have viewed the youtube bits, or at least some of, from the Jeremy Kyle Show, and notice the frequent accusations of lying made by the JCs team, in just this way.
Makes me think - what we are as children, is what we grow up to be. I recall my headmistress's comment on my school report stating : 'Catherine tells the truth even when it is not to her advantage", and yet my name is pasted all over the JCs forum as a liar telling lies. I mostly don't grace the accusations with any response having Jesus' own example in mind, but just because I don't protest doesn't mean I am a liar, and I don't believe Annette is either.