Talking about lying, do you know how early it starts?
It starts really, really early. How early? Well babies will fake a cry, wait to
see who's coming and then go right back to crying.
*One-year-old’s learn concealment.
*Two-year-old’s bluff.
*Five-year-old’s lie outright. They manipulate via
flattery.
*Nine-year-old’s, masters of the cover-up.
*By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to
your mom in one out of every five interactions.
*By the time we enter this work world and we are
breadwinners, we enter a world that is just cluttered with spam, fake digital
friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, a deception epidemic -- in
short, what one author calls a post-truth society.
I would want to bring the facts and research done by Pamea
Meyer who is an American author, certified fraud examiner, and
entrepreneur. Described by Readers Digest as “the nation’s
best-known expert on lying”. You may watch her ted talk on lie spotting in the
link given below.
In her research she brings out these facts. It says on a
given day; studies show that you may be lied to anywhere from 10 to 200
times. Now granted, many of those are white lies. But in another study, it
showed that strangers lied three times within the first 10 minutes of
meeting each other.
*We lie more to strangers than we lie to coworkers.
*Extroverts lie more than introverts.
*Men lie eight times more about themselves than they do
with other people.
*Women lie more to protect other people.
*If you're an average married couple, you're going to lie
to your spouse in one out of every 10 interactions.
*Now, you may think that's bad. If you're unmarried, that
number drops to three.
*It is said more than three-quarters of lies go undetected
If you seriously think about it, we will notice that we
are against lying, but we are covertly for it in ways that our society has
sanctioned for centuries. It's as old as breathing. It's part of our culture,
it's part of our history, and all the time part of our carnality.
Pamea Myer states that most often we are willing
participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, to maintain
friendship and for various other reasons known to us alone. For sure, you
cannot survive by telling lies, it will put you in a
spot someday. The Bible says “the truth shall make you
free.”. Yes, it does. It may look strange but when we speak the truth
God definitely will help us. It also says, ‘if God sets you free, you will be
free indeed.
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