Would you say you tell lies a lot? Do you find it amusing to trick people in believing something that isn't true? If you tell lies, what do you usually aim to gain with that? Are your lies elaborate? Are they usually just white lies? Or are you the "tell a stupid thing and be "lol i trol u"" kind of a person?
I dunno.. I guess I'm just naive and an easy target, but I find people lying to me all the time and frankly I don't know what or who to believe anymore. Internet especially. And it frustrates me. Is it just me?
Final question: who do you think will lie in this thread about lying (or not lying)? I think the poll and this thread are a bit of a paradox
Lolol people are natural liarsz. Lying is the best thing. Gains = avoiding negative feeling or gaining possiyibe ones. Not hard l. Why wouldn't you lien at all chancccces
I voted "only for my personal gain". I'm usually only using it to "avoid" problems (or to postpone them). Of course, I also lie when I'm being ironic/sarcastic, if that counts.
George Costanza is my idol when it comes to lying:
Lolol people are natural liarsz. Lying is the best thing. Gains = avoiding negative feeling or gaining possiyibe ones. Not hard l. Why wouldn't you lien at all chancccces
Would you say you tell lies a lot? Do you find it amusing to trick people in believing something that isn't true? If you tell lies, what do you usually aim to gain with that? Are your lies elaborate? Are they usually just white lies? Or are you the "tell a stupid thing and be "lol i trol u"" kind of a person?
I try to avoid lying unless I think it serves the greater good, which isn't that often. I don't think people lie to me very often either, but your post got me thinking, because there's no way I could be sure that I'm not being lied to all the time.
The only person for whom it would really matter all that much is my wife. If she was lying to me often, that could cause a lot of damage. Otherwise, when it comes to information, like news, gossip, etc., I'm pretty DIY, so people lying about that wouldn't have much impact anyway. If people lied to me about what they thought of me (and they probably do), that wouldn't matter much either, cause I don't listen unless there's a lot of consistency from one person to the next.
I guess I try to avoid having to trust people (other than my wife) for important things as much as possible.
Because sometimes... the truth isn't good enough... Sometimes people deserve more... Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded _________________ That's right, I'm an Asshole
I think I'm quite a truthful person, I found that usually when I lied it came back to bite me in someway.
But of course we slip lies into every conversation, just ones we don't even care to notice - such exaggeration when retelling an anecdote, we're all guilty of that, no man on this planet will tell everything exactly as it happened.
Not lying also has the benefit of building yourself as trustworthy, which means you can lie when it really matters and have it work.
I do lie, perhaps sometimes when it's unjustified. I don't think the one word really covers the spectrum of communication. You can tell a truth in a deceptive way, and you can say something technically untrue in a way that conveys a broader truth (eg. all works of narrative fiction). I guess the crucial point is betraying trust. That's what I try to avoid.
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