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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

If you introduce enough confusion no one will be interested in untangling the ball of string, hence the response recently by elders that this is in our "distant past" and the desire to just forget the whole thing. Liars understand this and make every effort to create a tangled ball of string out of their lies. If you are going to untangle it you have to simplify and I don't think WN is helpful at doing that.

Some quotes that this little passage brings to mind:

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! (Sir Walter Scott)

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. (Franklin D Roosevelt)

But I just found the following that takes the cake:

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. (Mark Twain)