Sunday, August 11, 2019

The truth is a slippery thing indeed

Update:

8.11.19:

It seems that liars are keenly aware of what people want to hear.  Also, people want to believe what they want to believe, so if you can plug this into that, you can lie your butt off...

Basically, you can be lied to because you want to believe the lie.

How do you get to the truth?  It may be impossible if people aren't interested in it.  Even if you find it, and prove it beyond all doubt, people may not want to believe it anyway.  So they won't.


12.30.18:

Is it possible that our whole lives are built around lies?   Is it possible that we lie almost reflexively? Can you even get around lying?  Lying is a problem.  Even when you don't want to.  You really have to be insistent upon avoiding it, and even then, you may slip up.  Do you lie?  Scene from the film "Departed":








How to spot a liar:






The biggest problem of all, I would think, is to lie to yourself.  This is hard to do, because the truth may too difficult to face.

Hopefully, I am avoiding this problem here.

Do I have any doubts of that?  Yes, I do.  It has happened before.


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