Have you ever felt like a fish out of water (or just felt like a fish?)? This expression dates back to the year 1483 when it was used by English writer Geoffrey Chaucer in his famous book, The Canterbury Tales. This collection of twenty-four stories are considered Chaucer’s magnum opus. The expression “Like a fish out of water” was used to describe one of the characters who did not feel comfortable riding a horse. The word picture caught on and we have been using it for several hundred years to describe someone or the feeling of being away from a setting or activity that we are accustomed to. It’s this expression that might best describe how it would look for us to live in a world where there were no lies or falsehoods. It’s hard to imagine that in fact humanity was first made to exist where there was only truth. Welcome to the Serpentine Prophecy, a study of truth where we have only known lies.
