Anselm's Doctrine of Substitution

If I'm sitting there doing nothing and think "That's the ugliest thing I have ever seen!" and I say nothing, are you calling me a liar?If I said, "Oh, I like that," then OK, hit me.If I am in court describing an accident and neglect to mention that the car was red because Mr. Prosecutor neglected to ask, am I guilty of perjury?If I am asked for the color but go off on a tangent describing the height of the shrubbery at the intersection then Mr. P will glare at me and ask for the color again. If I go off on another tangent neglecting to answer then Mr. P will get the Judge to verbally lambast me and warn me to answer directly. If I go off on yet another tangent then His Honor will toss my butt in jail - not for perjury but for contempt.Now, if I intially answered "blue" instead of "red" then, yes, that is perjury for which I will burn in ... well, someplace.I can think of many scenarios where keeping quiet about something would be immoral, even criminally so, but, as far as I am aware we need a direct false affirmation to be considered a lie. I may very well be wrong.When would keeping one's own counsel be considered a lie?Edited by AZPaul3, : more

The point was that the punishment for saying nothing was not a charge of perjury (which it might be if Theo is correct) but a charge of contempt. I'm not sure where this is coming from. No one is making that contention.So the question becomes:When would keeping one's own counsel be considered being a no good, weaslin' dissembler within whom the truth does not live?Have it any way you want. I'm not especially particular. I'm not sure where this is coming from either. I did address this in my message but it is just a side issue. As I said I can think of many occasions where remaining silent would be immoral, even criminal. That still does not answer my question.From Theo: "Lying by Omission is not a lie?" indicating to phat the remaining silent on some issue or other (I really don't care what or who or why) is lying (or being a no good, weaslin' dissembler within whom the truth does not live).Theo may be right, but I can't see it. Is he right?An example would be nice.I realize this is a left field tangent from the OP but inquiring minds want to know. If no one cares to answer that is OK. We can all go about our merry way. I will not be declaring victory over anything because I'm not challenging anything, just inquiring. I have no ego in this game.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

That has been happening for thousands of years, Phat. The result has been thousands of different, competing, often conflicting, "spiritual realities" each one claiming to be The Answer^TM as revealed by besought prayer.How can there be any The Answer^TM when there appears to be no single god to give a consistent The Answer^TM? This leaves The Answer^TM as a product of the emotional comfort of an individual's faith not as a product of any spiritual reality.And the very act of prayer to some chosen deity, Phat, already presupposes the kind of The Answer^TM the individual is expecting to receive.