Why do you lie? What's the last lie you told? Did it get you what you wanted? For how long?

I'm trying to remember the last words I spoke.  If my lips are moving, I am probably lying.  Oh yes.  I was buying some eggs and the cashier asked how I was.  I said "fine".   I lied.

You're lying.

Because the truth sucks. The most classic lie ever told: "I'm fine, thanks."
It still works. Don't know for how long. But since everyone uses it my guess is that it will work for a long time.

I lie by omission when I don't want to hurt someone's feelings by speaking the truth.

Example. A woman friend and I regularly send each other our latest poetic efforts. One day, forgetting that she had near black irises, I sent her a copy of “Billabong Eyes.” She was so delighted that I hadn’t the courage to tell her that it wasn’t about her. She responded with tremendous gratitude and a subsequent increase in warmth and intimacy of emotional sharing – which has lasted consistently since that moment several years ago and so she has become one of my closest friends.

I lie because lying is fun.  For example, I generally chat with my Mom once a week.  This is usually after our dinner time.  If she asks what I had for dinner, if I had fish I'll say, "Pasta." just to tell a lie.   And lying is often an essential part of the work day.  The waiter who is so upbeat and acts as if it is a great pleasurer to be your waiter is usually lying.  And when an employer inquires if one likes their job it is a god and needed thing thing to lie and answer, "Yes!".

I try to avoid people and discussions that tempt me to lie.  Although sometimes I have been known to lie as a joke.  

I find this question to be extremely compelling, interesting, important, thought-provoking and well worthy of my applied wisdom in formulating a valid, straightforward response.

Hey, wait a minute, I think you just caught me in one . . . 


~ This post was edited by Randy D at October 15, 2016 5:01 PM MDT

That would be when the telephone pollster called and asked who I was going to vote for next month. I said Clinton to avoid scrutiny by the liberal "thought police".

i dont lie