In my experience, most of the liars I've been around have been female. They lie just for their own benefit.
I known a few in my life -- one was so outrageous you'd finally have to call him out and he would just keep going on and on and on... It seemed like if you ignored his lies long enough he would up them until you finally said something. Otherwise he was a really nice person and fun to hang around with.
HA, My brother in law is just like this. That sucker lies about the dumbest ****. He used to stay with me about a year ago and I would catch him in lies on a daily basis. One time I was on facebook and he put in his status that he was at a club drinking hurricanes with a bunch of girls, but the whole time he was in his room. So I left a comment on his status exposing him. I have no idea why he lies so much. It must be psychological.
Liars are messed up in the head, its pretty sad to be around. It's so much easier to tell the truth. I knew a habitual liar and a pathological liar i think the habitual liar just had self esteem problems and the pathological was a total sociopath
I had a longtime friend that would do that, just became too awkward for me to have a conversation with him. He actually called me the other week an pretended he had the wrong number.... Just really weird
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You dont believe them, thats all. There are too many people that you cant trust, so cutting them out is kind of pointless because there is a decent chance that the next person you bring in can do the same. You just deal with it. When they say something, dont take it for 100% face value. Its really as easy as that.
One time a pathologically lying buddy and I were climbing back down Everest and were caught up in the Death zone. I was running low on oxygen and direly needed some spare air. I looked to my friend and quickly moon-bounced to him over this gigantic boulder and asked him if he could spare some oxygen. He said no, and that he was running low and we would simply have to hurry down through the Death Zone in order to preserve our quickly dwindling air supply. He trudged on ahead of me, so I decided that in order to expedite the downward trip I should make these gigantic 20 foot leaps from crevice to crevice in order to get to thicker air sooner. As I glide-scaled down the side of the mountain, I saw the son of a b**** re-hooking his tubes to a NEW oxygen tank! The nerve of the guy! I could've died and he lied right to my face! Luckily I broke the descent record down Everest and was able to touch back down on the ground with a good one hour left in my tank. In my anger I started throwing knives with my NFL strength arm (I was a star QB in college but decided to pursue a career in medicine instead) towards him on the mountain. In retrospect I shouldn't have done that to my friend, especially because I could've swore I pegged him right in the arm (I have very excellent vision). When he came down he said that the closest I got was a good twenty feet away from him, but what with his lying habits he probably lied about that too!
As with all 'unique' personalities they are great in small doses, but annoying if they are your close friend/family. Habitual liars are entertaining as hell when you're in the mood to be entertained.
I know exactly what you mean. I know a person like that. Its a sociopathic syndrome. Its odd that they have sense and awareness to push the right buttons in people to get attention. But they don't use that SAME awareness to see how WRONG they are. I finally just cut the b*stard out my life. I learned that others saw him as a liar also, so I didnt feel compelled to have to take up for him. I cut my sister off, too. Not for this reason. But you can only placate to people's bull**** SO much, even family members. Yeah it can be the overdramatic "You're DEAD to me" but honestly I feel a lot better for doing it.
You mean people who spend 4/5's their lives putting up fake synthetic physical appearances through cosmetics for the sole purpose of boosting their image, would actually let the effects of that carry over into their WORDS for the same fake effect?
ironic. my favorite niece (I have 12 of them, btw) just won a regional award for writing. Her topic was Lying. She made the case that you should never EVER lie. I said...really. White lies are often to protect the innocent. I said sometimes you must say nothing or lie. She said she tells the truth. I said, yeah, the brutal truth. She didn't get it. So, I said, "that's awesome. I'm sure Father Bill agrees, but good luck making friends in college." The thing that is so frustrating about this: my nieces are getting old enough to have the audacity to tell me what to do. Like it is their turn in life....obviously being brainwashed by their teachers. Another neice, a 19yr old, just freaking told me to stop smoking cigarettes...all because we were talking about NY's resolutions and ****. Why did nobody told me to avoid NY's resolution talks with your coming of age nieces. You see: they are young enough to have nothing to actually give up, but old enough to know what you should give up that would hurt. I have an email address. I'm on Facebook. Someone could have sent me the damn memo to avoid NY's resolutions talks with your 19yr old neice. The nephews usually don't give a ****...btw. No gf or wife in my entire life had the balls to tell me to quit smoking. And I did it. Not sure if I can stop white lying though. Although if you would have asked me 60 days ago, one week into my cold turkey whether I'd rather be blessed with the ability to never lie again or have one cigarette ... i would have taken that cig before you finished the sentence. btw: if a white lie is innocent...what's a black lie? hmmm
i had a good friend of over ten years who was one...finally it got to be too much and i had to cut him out of my life. He would lie about EVERYTHING, I literally called him on his house phone once and asked him what he was doing...his response "im at the barbershop bout to get a haircut" like why even lie about that? lol
I have found that there is no rehabilitation, and you just cut them out of your life, they are used to that.....usually.... Right now, I am under contract with a studio in Tulsa that's President is one of those people......so I resigned, the investor called me and put me over him.....life is much better now. DD
I respect this. It all goes back to character vs personality. What do you value more in people? I'll take an ******* who has high moral values (not to be mistaken with someone who blindly follows some rule set) over someone who has a silver tongue and bankrupt character any day. It's sad that Americans (Western society, really) doesn't understand this.
I'm a pathological liar, but a harmless one. I like to eff with people, so I will make up a semi-outrageous lie, just to see if I'm a good enough salesman to make people believe me. Then when they do, I immediately tell them the truth and call them an idiot and punch them in their *******.
