I agree and often we don't even realize the damage we do with just little lies. I was afraid of my security when I got on this site and also others and so said my birthday was a few days off from my real one. Didn't seem harmful but it was a lie.
phoenixrising1northern, British Columbia Canada1,086 posts
avecaim: I agree and often we don't even realize the damage we do with just little lies. I was afraid of my security when I got on this site and also others and so said my birthday was a few days off from my real one. Didn't seem harmful but it was a lie.
that is the first lie that i can accept.....because you are not obligated to give true info in a security situation...
liakos: any lie is a no no to me. and i've always meant that and acted upon it. we live in 2009. adults should've realized that lying only causes more problems than we already got.
Agreed. WAY. "Honesty Is The Best Policy". A lie of is a ripple. Just keeps expanding. The columnist Ann Landers once said, "the problem with telling a lie is you have to tell twenty more to cover it up.As an old poem (sorry-I forgot the title) goes, "don't deal in lies". (was that "If" by Kipling? a flower and a present to anyone who can tell me. Promise!)
I totally agree. The last seven years I have been single. I think I might try again. I think I would like an honest relationship .I do not lie. The men I have been with have all been liars. My bad. I should not have put up with it.
If someone will lie, they will then cheat, and then they will steal, etc., etc., etc.,
Peaches
If you think about it, all these mean hurtful acts begin with just one lie
i disagree jst cos someone spills a yarn does NOT mean they are cheaters, thiefs, r anything else in ur etc etc etc a lie is a lie to some people but people do actually lie to save other people's feelings from being hurt for ex. ur mam has just bought a new dress which she thinks is ab fab u dont like it at all but ye tell her it's lovely anyway
does that lie turn u into a thief and a cheater how wud ye feel if ur mam decided she wanted nothing to do with u cos u lied n said her dress was nice
phoenixrising1northern, British Columbia Canada1,086 posts
scorpiosiren: i disagree jst cos someone spills a yarn does NOT mean they are cheaters, thiefs, r anything else in ur etc etc etc a lie is a lie to some people but people do actually lie to save other people's feelings from being hurt for ex. ur mam has just bought a new dress which she thinks is ab fab u dont like it at all but ye tell her it's lovely anyway
does that lie turn u into a thief and a cheater how wud ye feel if ur mam decided she wanted nothing to do with u cos u lied n said her dress was nice
sorry sweetheart but i'm talking about honest in fact ...feeling and thought.... as naked mud people said ..."the truth hurts and if you ask ...then you better be able to take it..."...i have learned that it is better not to ask and risk a lie...honesty is the juice...
Lie once and it makes everything different then before the lie. Lie once and perhaps you will lie again, mayhap there were lies in the past. Perhaps everything was a lie. A foundation in truth is undermined by the question of trust.
lorax888: The full truths always appear. To your advantage?
Dennis
Depends on what the full truths are about. If they believe that I lied then it is a disadvantage. If they believe that I told the truth, then it is an advantage.
cameraman: Depends on what the full truths are about. If they believe that I lied then it is a disadvantage. If they believe that I told the truth, then it is an advantage.
If you told the truth and they believed you lied then sometimes it is their lies that their attacking. If you lied then there will need to be more lies to cover the lie and more likelihood of being caught in your web of lies.
A half lie and a white lie are designed to answer the question that was truly asked. Usually has nothing to with the words spoken , good luck figuring that out.
I think we all lie from time to time. Sometimes lies are necessary, For example I work at a medical facility. I sometimes see people who are in really bad shape. But I tell them "You are going to be alright" full well knowing in my mind that they will not be.
So the folks that say one lie and the person is gone, I can't buy into that. We all have lied.
I see no point in lying about your appearance on a dating site. B/c as someone else put it you may meet each other someday. Lying to make someone fall in love with you is just morally wrong. I would want someone to fall in love with me for who I am, Not some false persona I created through lies. A false persona cannot be maintained! One day you will have to fess up!
In a relationship lying is the worst thing to do. It creates mistrust. I believe trust is the backbone of any relationship. Once the trust is broken between two people, I do not believe it can ever be recovered. Especially in the cases of infidelity. Some people may disagree with me and say go to counseling. But that thought would never go away in a person’s mind that was severely lied to.
Sorry guys, I wrote a whole chapter...lol I had allot on my mind.
lorax888: If you told the truth and they believed you lied then sometimes it is their lies that their attacking. If you lied then there will need to be more lies to cover the lie and more likelihood of being caught in your web of lies.
A half lie and a white lie are designed to answer the question that was truly asked. Usually has nothing to with the words spoken , good luck figuring that out.
Dennis
I understood you. If I told the truth and they think I lied, that's there problem. If I lie, and they asked more about it, I would have to lie some more, till eventually they know I'm lying. Like the cup that is half full (positive attitude) or half empty (negative attitude), I like to think positive, so I'm telling half truths, not half lies.
cameraman: I understood you. If I told the truth and they think I lied, that's there problem. If I lie, and they asked more about it, I would have to lie some more, till eventually they know I'm lying. Like the cup that is half full (positive attitude) or half empty (negative attitude), I like to think positive, so I'm telling half truths, not half lies.
Well its none of my business but a cup half full is also half empty. However viewed it is the same,,, not full , not complete. When you split a lie in half what do you have but two lies? I realy don't care to meddle. The truth however is in the question 'why?'.
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