tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316225.post5498526345313310077..comments2023-08-29T16:12:16.314-05:00Comments on The Extended Table: The Deeper things...The Friendly Neighborhood Piperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07801966842022621248noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316225.post-41853401361605798202009-06-19T11:38:08.160-05:002009-06-19T11:38:08.160-05:00if more is said here, i think it would be detracti...if more is said here, i think it would be detractive of what is now penned.The Friendly Neighborhood Piperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07801966842022621248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316225.post-57879077643625985672009-06-19T10:41:58.358-05:002009-06-19T10:41:58.358-05:00That cancer you're referring to goes beyond de...That cancer you're referring to goes beyond denial and into the believing the deception. The ability to believe a falsehood that one's soul <i>knows</i> to be a falsehood is the cancer you speak of. We call it self-deception. An apt term on a number of levels. It is the self deceiving the self, taking on both roles, deceiver and deceived.<br /><br />We see it most often, I think, in Dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16411258590548162736noreply@blogger.com