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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. They say that actions speak louder than words. Seeing is believing and what you see is what you get. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. Axioms of self evident truth. In today’s world that paradigm just may be shifting. We now have the ability to disseminate words at lightening speed, words that have the power to change the way we see the picture, to alter our perception of the action. In today’s world, in the words of Mark Twain, “a lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Words can set up smoke screens to obscure and dull the edges of focus. Words can misdirect us away from the actions. Words can interpret the seeing and thus change the believing. Words become rhetoric and rhetoric is meant to influence and persuade. Sometimes that influence and persuasion, whether deliberately intended or not, can indeed hurt us. rhet·o·ric [réttərik] n 1. persuasive sp...