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ExNameForUse 53F
4212 posts
8/13/2022 4:35 am
The Lie

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ExNameForUse 53F
5715 posts
8/13/2022 4:36 am

Pathological lying is lying without a specific goal, without any obvious benefit... a pathological liar tells lies every day, very convincingly, as if he were telling the pure truth. Why? Just because.


aliljaded 53F
8872 posts
8/13/2022 4:40 am

Ain't that the Truth!

"Men need to hunt. She obviously understands this. She’s offering herself as prey. Not easy prey. But willing.”


ExNameForUse replies on 8/14/2022 1:38 am:
Being very sensitive to trust issues, I find it is the truth and should be kept in mind at all times.

DancingDom 74M
22529 posts
8/13/2022 5:00 am

Lie in a relationship with me and they are done. My 2nd Ex was a major liar. Her stuff started unraveling three months into the marriage. I ended it immediately. Legally closed the books on that situation.

"One Big Sky Covers Us All Equally"


ExNameForUse replies on 8/14/2022 1:36 am:
Each lie, sooner or later, will be revealed. It is funny how those who are accustomed to everyday lies do believe that they won't be uncovered at one point.
In partner relationships it is not acceptable, I agree, with you, DD. In fact, in any relationship that matter.

Plzrmeister 67M  
10294 posts
8/13/2022 5:34 am

The meme convicts all of us, does it not? Unlike many people, I firmly believe there are degrees of lies. Perhaps someone might ask you, "How are you?" on a day when you feel miserable for one reason or another. Should you be burned at the stake for replying, "I'm fine, how are you?"? I'm sure you've heard about the Catch-22 situation of being asked, "Do these jeans make my ass look fat?" That's a hot potato to deal with - Right?

Pathological lying is a horse of a different color for sure. Generally speaking, it doesn't take long to identify these sorts. As my father used to say of some people, "They'd rather tell a lie, when the truth would make a better story." Once you identify these type of people, you either avoid them or take anything they say with a huge grain of salt.

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ExNameForUse replies on 8/14/2022 1:44 am:
I just wrote the same example with "How are you" in everyday situations so we do agree on that, Plz.
With pathological liars, it is tricky when you can't avoid them, for example, I have a colleague I share the office/work with, who is a pathological liar, and I can't avoid it 5 days a week. He will lie just about anything, yet sometimes including the work and some important information work-related.
I had problems until I figured out that is who he is, and that actually others in the company know that already. Now I am just more careful and do check some things with more sources so that I have the accurate information I can work with.
I almost feel sorry for him.

bdsmDOMdaddy 61M
4090 posts
8/13/2022 6:51 am

l believe in honesty is best policy at all times or cost that the truth shall always set & keep you free...thou a lil white lie to spare someone’s feelings is acceptable!


ExNameForUse replies on 8/14/2022 1:32 am:
Always believed that living with the truth, both saying it, or hearing it and knowing it, is more liberating, than living in a lie, both saying it, or being lied to.

hardtop4you 65M

8/13/2022 7:06 am

Honesty is not a thing,
in the sense of something
you can see, touch or taste . .
It is a quality, a virtue.
The person that lacks the
virtue of honesty also lacks
empathy. We live in a time
where honesty is considered
measurable. So lying has therefore
become measurably acceptable.


ExNameForUse replies on 8/14/2022 1:30 am:
I can only add "unfortunately", at the end.

drmgirl622 68F  
26010 posts
8/13/2022 8:04 am

After a while the liars start to believe the falsehoods, but you have to have the memory of an elephant and I can't be bothered with all that.


ExNameForUse replies on 8/14/2022 1:24 am:
Sometimes I remember, sometimes I don't.
I have noticed that some really ugly things someone said to me, or did, have vanished from my memory... at least the details... what has left is the feeling about that particular person. And when the feeling is not comfortable, I know there is/was something uncomfortable about that person as well.

rondiri 65M
11119 posts
8/13/2022 9:05 am

That quote was the most profound in "House" A recurring theme. and true. At some point everyone lies, even if it is only to save someone pain, or avoid an argument over nothing. "Does this dress make me look fat?", "Not at all, Dear." being the most infamous.


ExNameForUse replies on 8/14/2022 1:22 am:
I really do love this quote, Rondiri. Something to keep in mind when dealing with humans.

brandygirasol 54T
9413 posts
8/13/2022 9:24 am

Ex this is why I believe in a higher power👼 because human beings are so fragile and morally confused...😥


ExNameForUse replies on 8/14/2022 1:18 am:
"human beings are so fragile and morally confused.."

Brandy, exactly my thoughts. Though I would not take that fact as an excuse for their lying nature and deceptive behavior.
We all make our own choices at the end of the day.

ridermantel 68M

8/13/2022 9:44 am

    Quoting brandygirasol:
    Ex this is why I believe in a higher power👼 because human beings are so fragile and morally confused...😥
Today is a day to do what is necessary.


alwaysassertive 64M

8/13/2022 12:28 pm

Sometimes lying can be a good thing. it all depends on what someone hopes to achieve and their underlying ( If I can use that word ) intention is. A good example would be if you and me were going to the theater and you asked, " does this dress make my ass look big"? If your ass happens to look big. I'm going to say you look absolutely stunning tonight. I'm certainly not going to say, "I never realized what a big ass you have". I hope that I've made you smile. I'm sure your ass is just perfect. Some people have no conscience so they believe are free to do and say whatever vile thing comes into their mind. To people like that others mean nothing. Only they are important.


ExNameForUse replies on 8/14/2022 1:14 am:
I am sorry, but I can't see lying as a good thing. The example given here is more politeness, rather than lying as such, or as people like to call it "a white lie" with no harm done... there are then other sorts of lies when harm can be huge, and occasionally done with no conscience at all.

rosaenaluin 65F
10951 posts
8/13/2022 2:33 pm

We all use socalled social lies, just to keep the engine running, the social, work, society, family, engine running....

Most of the time to just not hurt someones feeling, because why should you? What do "you" gain, by hurting someones feelings...
Over, most of the time, minor things...
Just "to be right"?

How important can it bé to tell "the true" when that will only hurt someone?


ExNameForUse replies on 8/14/2022 1:02 am:
I agree, to some extent, with you Rosa. I would say that sometimes we hold the truth, as to protect those important to us. Until some point when they are ready to face it, in my opinion.

jenny14 75T  
90273 posts
8/13/2022 9:01 pm

Ex

That is a wonderful quote!

I guess we all lie sometimes...


A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw

Jenny


ExNameForUse replies on 8/14/2022 12:56 am:
I think so too, Jenny. To begin with the usual question "How are you today" anyone asks every day... and in 99% of cases we will say we are "Good, thank you", even if we are maybe far from the good that day...

rosaenaluin 65F
10951 posts
8/18/2022 1:01 am

I agree with you, to the same extent, too, ExNameForUse,

When people are ready for it..... Nobody can decide that moment, for an other person.
Most of the time, they come to their truth from within..

I have known pathological liars, it is all about them, wanting to impress, even when it is something the other can prove to be a lie... It is a mental sickness.


ExNameForUse replies on 8/18/2022 9:11 am:
I believe we all had the honour to meet them, though not being an expert I won't take the liberty and call it mental illness, but some kind of disorder it certainly is having the need to lie, every day, just about anything, no matter how insignificant it is.


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