How do you know somebody is lying to you?

Posted on Thursday, July 25th, 2024 at 1:50 am in Australia - Last edit on April 5, 2025 Tags: lying, Narcissism

In short, you don’t. You’ll only be certain once you are certain. Jumping into the “I believe nobody” is very short-sighted, as grouping people into liars and truth tellers based on their social status, job, or nationality will not help you spot the liars. Politicians are not liars, even if some politicians lie. Women are […]

They’re lying to themselves, too

Posted on Saturday, January 6th, 2024 at 3:45 pm in Australia - Last edit on Tags: lying

Sometimes people wish what they are saying would be true more than what they know it to be true. For instance, if you ask someone if they love you, they may wish they did, because that would mean their search is over. Deep down they may know they don’t but don’t want to admit it […]

Accepting a person and white lying your way out of being accepted as a member.

Posted on Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 at 1:09 am in Australia - Last edit on June 13, 2024 Tags: lying

There is two ways to think of “accepting someone.” One is to accept them as one of us, and the other is to accept them to be whatever they are – including, but not limited to, NOT (really) one of us. Acceptance means the ability to see the actual truth and then adapt to it; […]

Liar, liar, pants on fire!

Posted on Thursday, May 25th, 2023 at 7:25 am in Australia - Last edit on Tags: lying

There are times in one’s life when one chooses to lie, no? There are good times to lie, but not many. Effectively, if you only have to deal with the fallout of tre truth in one or two personal relationships, tell the truth. However, if an entire system is stacked against you, lie all you […]