(At the end, the question is, Will you hire Steve or George?).

REQUIREMENTS:

Total integrity. Totally honest. Totally dependable. Totally reliable. Must be willing to be discomforted, destitute, tortured, die or killed rather than lie or deceive.

CONSEQUENCES:

Your child is being tortured and the only thing asked of you is to tell a lie, and the torture will be stopped. Will you lie?

The entire solar system with all its inhabitants will be destroyed unless you tell a lie.

Is your honesty important? To whom? Is there a God that will punish you for lying or punish you for not lying, but by not lying, your child and the universe die?

So you lie and save your child and the universe, and you are punished for your lie. Is this noble? You sacrificed your integrity that others might live. Is this noble? Noble to whom? Are you trying to please someone? Who is it you are trying to please? Are you a servant of honesty. Who is that? What is that? Is it Justice? Who is Justice? What is that?

Are not honesty and justice ideas, values? You do not lie, because of an idea, a value?

Are people more valuable than honesty?

Are people more real than honesty.
Is honesty more real than people?

Real to whom?

God is taken prisoner. He is told to lie to save the universe. He refuses and the universe is destroyed. God still has his integrity. He can be relied upon to never lie. Is there value in this?

What’s important? Who decides?

If I value life more than honesty, is that noble?

What is noble?

Would you like a God who will lie to save you? Would you not wonder about a God who would lie to save you, that he would also lie for other reasons?

(As truth is things as they were, are or will be, a lie is things as they were not, are not or will not be).

So God did not lie and the universe was destroyed. What is the universe? What is life?

Are they not thoughts, ideas made concrete. Are they not energy in form, seemingly solidified through man’s limited senses?

Thus honesty and the universe and life are merely thought forms, with man perceiving the universe and life as solidified.

Would man hold God or a human in contempt for not saving the universe and life? What is contempt? Is it not a thought, an idea, a perspective, an attitude.

If God judges a man by his intent, and the man lies to save himself, his child or the universe, is that a good intent?

What is intent? Is it not the reason a thing is done? Is saving himself, his child, the universe a good reason to lie?

Trust, reliability, confidence, are these more valuable than a child, a universe?

You can’t trust George. If someone threatens him, his child, his family, his income, his lifestyle, he will lie to protect them.

You can trust Steve. No matter if you threaten him, his family, the universe with torture and destruction, he will not lie.

Would you rather have George or Steve as an employee?

I know that Steve will let me, my children, wife, the whole universe be tortured and killed rather than tell a lie.

I know George will save me and everyone else by lying.

Will you hire Steve or George?