The one percent - 2/2

When cooking something up - maybe a story, a business deal, a winter soup or whatever, most of the time it’s got to be 100% good or the whole thing breaks down and evil results. A teenager who was arguing along the lines that “just a little bit” of naughty stuff would be OK, was stopped in their tracks by their father who got them to bake a cake. Just as they were about to share it with their friends and eat it were advised that he slipped “just a little bit” of dog poo into the mixture before they cooked it.

Hmmm - a good point about letting go of morality “just a little”. I’ve got an algebraic formula about this one percent thingamajig . . .

Here it is philosophically (my favourite):
99% TRUTH + 1% LIE = 100% EVIL

The same thing in Einstein speak comes out like this:
99t/100+L/100= Σψ ^{[* footnote]}

Translated literally:
99% of (t) truth + 1% of (L) lies = (Σ) eternal (ψ) hell)^{[* footnote]}

And amplified:
A deal with 99% of (t) truth but containing just one percent of lies equals a long time below with little chance of parole

Cutting to the chase, in Plain English:
Put just a little bit of BS into an otherwise good story and you’re going to be spending a lot of time stewing cooking over it

Anyone who has been in business five minutes knows how important your reputation is. When I first started in business I spent ages trying to convince people that they could trust me. As far as I thought about it they could trust me, but in the early days I didn’t have a reputation - well I did, in some places, but I tried to keep that reputation quiet!

People are very quick to gossip and knock others. When we established WDANZ a few of the anti-Dennis comments mentioned the fact that “he had a Registrar that was de-registered by the Domain Name Commissioner”. Bad reputation they claimed. Not trustworthy they claimed. Shonky dealer they claimed. Fortunately many of the people that really mattered got the “other side of the story” and business carried on regardless, but a little poison could easily ruin a good thing.

Go Kiwi Internet sold 36 month pre-paid hosting packages with its websites from 1999 onwards. This was relatively forward thinking in those days, and a lot of the questions were ones like “How long have you been in business!” and “How do I know you will be around in three years” and so on. The only way that people can trust you is if you are trustworthy. We were, and I hope still are. The point here though is that if we’d just slipped a little poison into the mix, a little white lie or a nasty catch somewhere, we wouldn’t have a good business reputation any more.

Buy a car from a car dealer who tells you all that is good with the car, and omits one tiny but important point and the deal turns from something good into a rip-off. Evil.

Just try keeping a marriage together after one party finds out that their mate was unfaithful (even just once) 20 years ago and then never let on about it. Virtually impossible and just downright - well, Evil.

Go into business with a partner only to find out that they’re doing their own thing on the side, or looking after their own interests above that agreed beforehand. Stink eh? Evil really.

Get elected into government on a ticket to [whatever] and do the opposite. OK OK I know it rarely happens, but Evil all the same.

Ex-bankrupts are always ex-bankrupts. Put only a teensy-weensy drop of arsenic into the troops super-stew and they all die. You only need one traitor in a whole platoon and they are all done-for when the enemy catches on. It only takes one thief on the team and everyone then has to lockup their valuables and watch their back. You only have to molest one child, once, and you’re a marked man forever. Rip off just one customer and your reputation is shot, forever.

Outright compulsive liars are the ones from the dark side. Most people only lie and cheat just a little, but even one percent is still a killer.

One of the sneakiest and most evil things is to take the truth and twist it just ever so slightly, thinking that it won’t be noticed. It doesn’t work though. Even one percent off the truth poisons it all.

The Good Book warns of this clearly when the enemy tempted Adam and Eve, and they got caught up in the on percent thing. Darn. I hate it when that happens.

Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3:4-5

Funny that eh? The evil one offering knowledge about good and evil! Hmmm. I wonder if this is a part of the one percent, or the 99%.

So how do you know when the devil is lying? That’s easy. When his lips move.

It’s the VICTUS IN AMBITUS way to stick with the 99%ers and bat 100%.

*Eternal Damnation
This example is used for illustrative effect only.

Contrary to traditional mainstream teaching, and popularised by the Catholic Church, the concept of an eternal soul forever cast into hell is biblically questionable. The biblical usage of the words and concepts Eternity and Eternal life (both Old and New Testament usage) is reserved exclusively for the nature of God and those with Him. The biblical terminology used for “lake of sulphur/fire, punishment and damnation” refer to a specific but unspecified period of time that is eternal in effect, but never eternity in time. The only biblical reference to eternal life outside of God’s presence came from the one that introduced death into the world, and he’s got a reputation - actually some pretty big credibility issues. The original source of the Eternal life thing outside of heaven is easy to find. It’s quoted above in Genesis 3:4.