Wednesday, September 30, 2009
I try to always tell the truth. I sometimes leave out all of the truth though. I don't think that that's lying but then again I know that it's not 100% honest to do that. I try as hard as I can to not lie. It really bugs me when people lie to me. I try to be honest to you so please be honest to me! I get telling a white lie every once in a while and everyone does that but I'd be more understanding if people would just tell the truth even if they think that I'd rather hear a lie.
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In one of my favorite fantasy series -- the Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan (Book Twelve on the 27th! Woot!) -- there are a group of people, sorceresses, who have been magically bound so that they cannot "speak any word that is untrue." But these women are famed, in Jordan's world, for being able to make the truth dance, sit up and sing their tune. They leave out certain tidbits, they spin things, use ambiguity and partial truths -- and they are good enough at it that they can, in essence, lie, because they can make you believe something that isn't true. I do the same thing with students, sometimes, for fun. For instance: when I was fifteen, I punched a 6-year-old in the face.
ReplyDeleteSo while I think leaving out minor details does not in any way constitute lying, this is still a question of degree.
When you said that you punched a 6-year-old in the face, are you talking of something other than a human that was 6 years old?
ReplyDeleteCoCo: No, I mean a human being. Little boy. I may be wrong about the age; he might have been 5 or 7 or so, and I might have been 14 or 16, but he was much smaller than I. My knuckles hit his face, knocked him right down.
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