Do you lie?

“No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people,” he told the American Medical Association in 2009. “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.”

I don't bother lying, because either it will come back to bite your butt or end up hurting someone along the line. And I don't do it very well anyway.

When trapped in a possible hurtful situation (Does this make me look fat?) I'll find something positive to say (That is a GREAT color on you!) that avoids having to answer directly, when the truth would only be hurtful.

Depending on how well I know the person, I may be honest indirectly... "that other dress makes you look slimmer".

Direct family and intimate friends know better then to ask questions like that, they WILL get an honest answer. :lol:

I never lie. Hope I didn't say anything different earlier. I think I might have, but it's probably a, ah, slightly misleading statement of fact. Doesn't make it a lie, because that's something I never do.

If you say you never lie you're clearly lying.

9 people, so far, have already moved into the "I lie very rarely" category from the one they originally voted for......

I stretch the truth or make omissions regularly in certain situations during my day.

Most of the time when I am not in careful situations, I'm fairly open.

As such, I won't vote. That doesn't give me enough flexibility.

I rarely lie, and then at times others have mentioned... to avoid hurting feelings, and because society really doesn't care how I am today. I'm also guilty of lies of omission, when I don't say what I'd really like to say because I'm not in the mood for a fight.

Lies are too damned much trouble. It's hard enough to remember what I actually did and said without trying to remember crap I made up!

I lie here and there. Everybody lies, especially when a woman is involved.

"I lie all the time. No, that's a lie. Actually that's a lie too. I never lie, but that's not entirely true; I lied once - well, twice, but really they were just fibs, not really lies - they were more "white" lies.... eh, maybe not so white, let's say gray, a light... well dark gray...

Trust me though - I'm generally honest, most of the time, well, some of the time, well, rarely, but I AM sincere - I'm always sincere - usually."

Liars! :mrgreen:

MaggieD said:

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If I say no that is technically true since it's actually her butt that makes her butt look big.

ChrisL said:

Liars! :mrgreen:

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Totally! ...or ....Not!

EdwinWillers said:

Totally! ...or ....Not!

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:lamo

Henrin said:

If I say no that is technically true since it's actually her butt that makes her butt look big.

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I know you weren't asking me, but I say that it would not be lying in that case. :lol:

molten_dragon said:

Simple question. Do you lie? How often? And why or why not?

Personally, I try not to as much as possible, but I do find myself telling white lies occasionally, mostly because it's a situation where lying is a lot less complicated and easier to explain than telling the truth.

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Yep - My parents and other family members. All the time - when I really don't feel like explaining myself, or dealing with someone else's emotional response.

Why? Because it'll just complicate relationships with people and create foul situations, and none of it will be good for anyone. In the end I'll still do what I do, only, they will spend their time trying to change who I am. It'll be a lost cause and the price is one soul, medium rare.

Superfly said:

Nah, I don't lie, for the most part, because I don't want to get caught in the lie simply because I forgot what the truth was. Who was it, Mark Twain that said that if you tell the truth, you'll never have to remember anything? That's the way I look at it. I don't want to have to scramble, trying to remember what I told somebody. If I always tell them the truth, it's a non-issue.

That being said, if my friend comes up and asks me if this dress makes her look fat, I'm going to say, "No, it looks great on you!" or "No that haircut is fabulous!" No need to deliberately hurt anyone.

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I lie every day because invariably somebody will ask how I am and I say fine, when in fact my hands hurt or my knee hurts. It is easier then telling a complete stranger my life story.

Un biased said:

I lie constantly . Sometimes I say yes that is so very interesting . I even tell people how much I care if they ask and expect a answer .

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If I could like this twice, I would.

That was like, not lick.

Mason66 said:

I lie every day because invariably somebody will ask how I am and I say fine, when in fact my hands hurt or my knee hurts. It is easier then telling a complete stranger my life story.

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Well, see, I don't consider that a lie, Mason. I mean, I don't know how old you are, but me? I am sore every day. But if I admitted it, I'd turn into my ex mother-in-law. So I don't think that's a lie. I think a lie would be telling someone your other car is a Ferrari, or that you are in the CIA, or something like that. Not hurting someone's feelings, or telling them how poorly you really feel, isn't a lie - at least in my opinion.

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Well, see, I don't consider that a lie, Mason. I mean, I don't know how old you are, but me? I am sore every day. But if I admitted it, I'd turn into my ex mother-in-law. So I don't think that's a lie. I think a lie would be telling someone your other car is a Ferrari, or that you are in the CIA, or something like that. Not hurting someone's feelings, or telling them how poorly you really feel, isn't a lie - at least in my opinion.

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That is a nice way of looking at it, but it is not telling the truth, so that is a lie, but I have no problem with it at all, and I mean AT ALL.

I am 46 with arthritis and many other pains. That is old enough.

I always lie.

One of the great paradoxes.

Boo Radley said:

Hard to live a peaceful life and never lie. She does look fat in those pants may not be the best policy.

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No. Those pants don't make you look fat. Being fat makes you look fat. <------ is that a lie?

Lying is in the nature of humans. Why bother lie about it. Everyone lies for some reason or another.

Gardener said:

The lower down on the poll people vote, the more I believe they are telling the truth.

We all lie constantly in little ways. Just imagine what would happen if we didn't?

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I grew up in backwoods Alabama where a man's good word was very important. Most people lived by that moral code. The problem is that when so many people tell the truth, we expect everyone to be truthful. That sets you up in a position to be scammed or abused.

My dad told me that construction barrels were full of concrete. I believed it until I was a lot older. I never ran over one for fun even though it is very tempting. My mom told me that if you pull a fire alarm you will get blue ink all over your hand. I believed it until I was a lot older. My parents also told me that Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins. My parents were trustworthy people. I had no reason to suspect they were making any of these things up. I still think they honestly believed all three of these things to be true. They probably heard it from a reliable person and had no reason to question it.

It is my suspicion that religion cannot exist without a presence of a large population of honest people. There is a movie called "The Invention of Lying" starring Richard Gervais. He lives in a world where nobody has ever told a lie. He tells a lie for the first time ever and uses it to manipulate a whole world full of trusting people. Prior to the establishment of Israel, there was a tradition that when someone made a business contract a bull was cut in half and the two parties walked between the severed bull. They said, "Let this happen to us if our word is not true." Honesty was a common tradition which paved the way for the Israelites to be shammed by Moses. The tradition of honesty continued and allowed Jesus to influence many people.

An honest population is ripe for new religions to emerge. Trusting people are vulnerable to be shammed. Thank God for liars. They keep our brain in good practice. We have to exercise our brain by seperating the truth from the BS. It's good for us as individuals. It's good for society.

Lying is great.

molten_dragon said:

Simple question. Do you lie? How often? And why or why not?

Personally, I try not to as much as possible, but I do find myself telling white lies occasionally, mostly because it's a situation where lying is a lot less complicated and easier to explain than telling the truth.

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Tee hee, how can we trust any of these results?

vasuderatorrent said:

No. Those pants don't make you look fat. Being fat makes you look fat. <------ is that a lie?

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Seems we can have more than one lie there, but thrust are best left alone.