How do you deal with cunning? Cunning is defined as being skillful in deception. Deception/trick/lie is arguably the root of all evil, 'Now the snake was the most cunning animal the Lord God had made' (Genesis 3 v1).Cunning, I find is difficult to deal with. It appears to take a lot of thought to uncover the trick. Previously I had disregarded the difficulty of this because of the fact that evil is stupid. However, the definition of stupid, is 'slow to learn', so one can in fact be stupid and cunning.
For example; if some one creates a cunning lie in order to decieve/trick you, what ways are there, first to uncover the lie/trick and then what action should one take? Perhaps one must correct the other person (difficult as they are stupid), or as somewhere in the Bible, I think it says to answer a stupid question with a stupid answer, so should one answer a trick with a trick (an eye for an eye). This latter answer seems wrong to me, but maybe there is some reason behind it.
2006-06-17
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