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	"Liar, Liar..."

kris_tea

8-21-2009 5:55 PM

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lies, lie, lying, christianity

kris_tea says:

Great article on lying & the damage it does to one's character.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6a1a9984-9ded-47ff-ac57-cb194247c1a5/16C34560-C271-41A8-9A58-EBD31F337F7F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.boundlessline.org/2009/08/liar-liar-.html" href="http://www.boundlessline.org/2009/08/liar-liar-.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.boundlessline.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boundlessline.org/2009/08/liar-liar-.html"><H3 class="entry-header"><A href="http://www.boundlessline.org/2009/08/liar-liar-.html">Liar, Liar ...</A><BR /><FONT size="-1" color="#777777"> by <A href="http://www.boundlessline.org/about.html#heather_koerner">Heather Koerner</A> on 08/21/2009 at  12:32 PM</FONT></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boundlessline.org/2009/08/liar-liar-.html"><P>Robert Feldman, a University of Massachusetts professor of psychology, has spent most of his career studying liars. He recently talked with <EM><A href="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917215,00.html">Time</A></EM> about some of his research and his new book.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boundlessline.org/2009/08/liar-liar-.html"><P>Feldman has found that not only do we lie frequently, but most of us don't even realize how much: 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boundlessline.org/2009/08/liar-liar-.html"><P>How did people react when confronted with their lies? With apathy, Feldman says: 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boundlessline.org/2009/08/liar-liar-.html"><BLOCKQUOTE>"...They very rarely display remorse. Lying is not seen as being morally reprehensible in any strong way. We are living in a time and culture in which it's easier to lie than it has been in the past. The message that pervades society is that it's O.K. to lie — you can get away with it."</BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boundlessline.org/2009/08/liar-liar-.html"><P>Feldman describes the problems he sees with our lie-saturated society: 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boundlessline.org/2009/08/liar-liar-.html"><P>What's more, Feldman says, is that sometimes we don't care that we're being lied to. 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boundlessline.org/2009/08/liar-liar-.html"> <A href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=24&chapter=12&verse=22&version=31&context=verse">Proverbs</A> tells me that the Lord detests lying lips, but He delights in men who are truthful.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/16C34560-C271-41A8-9A58-EBD31F337F7F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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