i really enjoyed thursdays lecture on lying (1/5/08). theres a lot of confusion as to reasons for lying...when is it ok or even good to lie? like if your mate was hiding in the cuboard from a mass murderer and you was asked where he was, i most certainly would lie- would this make me a bad person? i dont think so. i dont get what the big deal about lying is- i lie, you lie, we're lied to, everybody lies every day about all sorts of issues-get over it. "was everything ok with your meals?" "oh yes thankyou" what we really mean is, well actually the peas were like bullets, the mash smelt like feet, the meat was obviously from a tin and the service was twice as bad. we dont say this, perhaps because were afraid of the truth and afraid to tell the truth. but we all lie! we exaggerate when we tell storys, we say people look nice, we pretend we missed the bus when really we just lay in bed 10 extra minutes. id rather lie to my boss then loose me job even if i know i shouldnt have lay in in the first place. its a matter of waying the moral wrong doing against the need to survive. we lie for confidence aswell, we wear make-up, joke teeshirts, high heels all to enhance or disguise our good points and our short comings. my eyelashes are not jet black and as long as half of my index finger, they may look better like this but i wear make-up to lie that they are. i dont want to admit i have short, stumpy, brown little lashes- who would that attract hahahha. perhaps its that im immoral or something, or maybe a bad person but i dont care that i lie based on the knowledge that i know im lied to, id prefer it if i was told the truth and id like to think i always tell the truth but im just not that niave. and encase we're all unsure what a lie is good old dictionary. com sums it up in ite number one, for me, anyway, im happy to accept that definition and keep it simple- forget aout morals hahaha.:
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