What harms lay in lies? “If a lie is told often enough even the teller comes to believe it. It becomes a habit. And habit is like a cable. Each day another strand is added until you have woven a cable that is unbreakable.”
So said extra ordinary confidence artist Yellow Kid Weil who on reaching his 70’s immortalized his Great Depression era cons in autobiographical form. Since its writing, many of Weil’s stories have been further immortalized in sundry media forms including movies such as “The Sting” starringPaul Newman and Robert Redford, “The Flim Flam Man” starringGeorge C. Scott etcetera, etcetera.
Weil continued as he lamented, “It was that way with me. I found it far more interesting and profitable to romance than to tell the truth. It has taken me five years to break that cable.”
In his long career confidence career, Weil claims only to have met one honest man, whom he did not fleece and claims only to have taken men were no more honest than he, easily able to afford the loss, and didn’t care at whose expense they got it and were willing to go in with Weil in schemes they fancied would fleece others.
“They wanted money for its own sake… They knew little — and cared less — about their fellow men.”
“If they had been keener students of human nature, if they had given more time to companionship with their fellows and less to the chase of the almighty dollar, they wouldn’t have been such easy marks.”
“Every swindle I ever developed had a hole in it somewhere. But I made everything plausible — to anyone who did not dig too deep or ask questions.”
How interesting that this idea of Weil’s taking only the dishonest is so very consistent with The Law of Attraction (LOA) which says that things which we have not invited cannot come into our existence. That as we think, so it is done unto us.
That as we think of fleecing, so we are fleeced.
Doesn’t this also bring to mind what we have so often seen themed in many Dracula movies? Isn’t it interesting how Mary Shelley’s vampire cannot cross thresholds and enter home and hearth uninvited.
What vampires and lies do we manifest?
How long will it take to cast them out?
According to Jack Rosenberg, better known as Werner Erhard, founder of EST, transformation always occurs in an instant and cannot occur in anything other than an instant.
And after our transforming instants we can manifest any new future, in our present, as we choose.
How bout we choose truth?
Yes, let’s all choose truth now, Yay!!!
Truthfully yours,
Yucel