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Holo · 05-05-2004, 05:21 PM

I have more sins of omission than lies in my life. I lie when I have to-when someone I don't like would be privy to info I don't want them to have about me. When I do lie I make sure to put as much truth in it as possible...an old friend called it "getting creative with the truth." Lying is as important in our society as is money.

G5_Todd · 05-05-2004, 11:02 PM

im a horrible liar...but still its a daily occurance....

nothing big thou

raeanna74 · 05-06-2004, 05:43 AM

Mostly I lie about every other weekend, sometimes a little less. When we go swinging or to swinging parties. There is enough people out there who would not understand our lifestyle that it's too risky to tell what we are actually doing. Usually I just say we're going to visit friends or to a party which we are. I just omit what kind of friends or party it is. Now if it comes to my mother I have to have a hard core story since she's an interrogator at heart and suspects ourlifestyle. She also would VERY strongly disapprove of it. I wouldn't be surprised if she disowned me for it. Otherwise I don't recall lying much lately. It's just cause if you lie once then you might have to lie again to cover that one up.

My mother always told me a phrase that I can't get out of my mind now. "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when at first we do decieve." Don't know where it's from. Anybody got a guess??

MSD · 05-06-2004, 09:32 PM

I lie when I need to. It saves me the trouble of dealing with my mom's irrational logic (I'm 20, I should be allowed to stay out past 10:30 and hang out at school with friends) and saves her the stress of wondering what I'm up to.

It's from one of Shakespeare's plays

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Originally posted by raeanna74
My mother always told me a phrase that I can't get out of my mind now. "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when at first we do decieve." Don't know where it's from. Anybody got a guess??

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott's "Marmion" Canto vi Stanza 17
Also used in a slightly different phrasing in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (or was it Othello?)

final_identity · 05-07-2004, 07:16 AM

I used to think it was important to be brutally, indiscreetly honest. "Honey, does this dress make me look fat?" "I cannot tell a lie. The dress highlights the extra forty pounds on your ass. But the dress itself does not make you look fat, the fat does."

Then I realized I liked getting laid more than I liked thinking of myself (and being thought of by others) as someone who deliberately always occupied his own warped sense of the moral high ground.

We live in a society of humans. The absolute truth is sometimes absolutely necessary, and it's important to cling tightly to one's grasp of the meaningful truths of existence -- and of yesterday's news. Pretending, merely in order to SPIN, is a problem. But at the same time, people want a happy existence.

And women, to a GREAT extent, respond positively only if the man is lying. Honesty has never gotten me a chick, or a friendship, or respect. Sad but true.

pomeranian · 05-14-2004, 04:08 AM

Everytime I walk in the building to my teaching job and say...."i'm gonna teach the class a given real world skill" But the sad reality is they curse me out, get me pissed off, listen to ghetto music and think that will get them a job. "50 cent is gangsta teach.....fall back....you aint teach'n us shit.....*#$&(*(&)$@*@.

At the end of the day walking out the building....I say "I am going online and looking for a new teaching job or career", yet it never happens. That's the real lie to myself.

Pom

05-05-2004, 05:21 PM	#41 (permalink)
Holo A Real American	I have more sins of omission than lies in my life. I lie when I have to-when someone I don't like would be privy to info I don't want them to have about me. When I do lie I make sure to put as much truth in it as possible...an old friend called it "getting creative with the truth." Lying is as important in our society as is money. __________________ I happen to like the words "fuck", "cock", "pussy", "tits", "cunt", "twat", "shit" and even "bitch". As long as I am not using them to describe you, don't go telling me whether or not I can/should use them...that is, if you want me to continue refraining from using them to describe you. ~Prince

05-05-2004, 11:02 PM	#42 (permalink)
G5_Todd Junkie Location: Reichstag	im a horrible liar...but still its a daily occurance.... nothing big thou __________________ "....and when you men get home and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy." -General Franks

05-06-2004, 05:43 AM	#43 (permalink)
raeanna74 I'm not a blonde! I'm knot! I'm knot! I'm knot! Location: Upper Michigan	Mostly I lie about every other weekend, sometimes a little less. When we go swinging or to swinging parties. There is enough people out there who would not understand our lifestyle that it's too risky to tell what we are actually doing. Usually I just say we're going to visit friends or to a party which we are. I just omit what kind of friends or party it is. Now if it comes to my mother I have to have a hard core story since she's an interrogator at heart and suspects ourlifestyle. She also would VERY strongly disapprove of it. I wouldn't be surprised if she disowned me for it. Otherwise I don't recall lying much lately. It's just cause if you lie once then you might have to lie again to cover that one up. My mother always told me a phrase that I can't get out of my mind now. "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when at first we do decieve." Don't know where it's from. Anybody got a guess?? __________________ "Always learn the rules so that you can break them properly." Dalai Lama My Karma just ran over your Dogma.

05-07-2004, 07:16 AM	#45 (permalink)
final_identity Tilted Location: Jackson, MS	I used to think it was important to be brutally, indiscreetly honest. "Honey, does this dress make me look fat?" "I cannot tell a lie. The dress highlights the extra forty pounds on your ass. But the dress itself does not make you look fat, the fat does." Then I realized I liked getting laid more than I liked thinking of myself (and being thought of by others) as someone who deliberately always occupied his own warped sense of the moral high ground. We live in a society of humans. The absolute truth is sometimes absolutely necessary, and it's important to cling tightly to one's grasp of the meaningful truths of existence -- and of yesterday's news. Pretending, merely in order to SPIN, is a problem. But at the same time, people want a happy existence. And women, to a GREAT extent, respond positively only if the man is lying. Honesty has never gotten me a chick, or a friendship, or respect. Sad but true. __________________ The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche

05-14-2004, 04:08 AM	#46 (permalink)
pomeranian Tilted Location: Philadelphia, PA	Everytime I walk in the building to my teaching job and say...."i'm gonna teach the class a given real world skill" But the sad reality is they curse me out, get me pissed off, listen to ghetto music and think that will get them a job. "50 cent is gangsta teach.....fall back....you aint teach'n us shit.....#$&((&)$@*@. At the end of the day walking out the building....I say "I am going online and looking for a new teaching job or career", yet it never happens. That's the real lie to myself. Pom