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How far would you perpetuate a lie?

Matthew

 
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    First off, are you someone who lies to get away from or of something? Would you perpetuate a lie if you can't admit the truth or are you someone who's guilt makes you succumb to the truth? Would you be able to live with yourself if you lied to a loved one, regardless of whether to 'protect' him or not?
     
    I only lie to get myself out of trouble, but I still tell the truth if the pressure starts to crack down on me.
     
    I lie to get out of doing things if they're unimportant like going to town with friends or whatever, but I don't remember ever having lied to avoid doing something important or to avoid trouble. I like to think I wouldn't resort to lying, but it wouldn't be unlike me. :p
     
    When I was younger, around 12 or 13, I used to be a big liar. Be it to save my own ass, to get what I want, or to make myself look better, it didn't matter. I obviously didn't make it very outlandish, but it wouldn't be true. Lately, though, I've learned. I'm a fairly honest person nowadays. I tell people the whole truth usually, and on the occasion where I would usually lie, I just twist my words to make it so that I'm not actually lying. Deceit? Yes. But it's better then straight out lying.
     
    I haven't lied in such a long time, but the only time I ever lied was to not have to deal with someone yelling at me. This someone was always my father. Not to avoid getting into trouble, because I got into trouble regardless of what I did. I could breathe the wrong way and get yelled at for it by my father, which is a huge contributing factor of my resentment towards him. But nowadays, I don't really have much of a need to lie.
     
    Depends who and what is involved. If I know I can convince them of the lie then usually I just keep going with it. Anytime I've been caught in a lie I always just add a more convincing lie to it. WORKS EVERY TIME.
     
    I think I can lie fairly consistently if I have to (to protect/save someone if my life suddenly becomes a TV drama), but I don't lie that much to begin with. If I do, it's by silly things like saying, "I have to go now." or "Oh, I'm busy that day." The longest lie I ever told was something silly, even.

    I'll spare the details, but when I was five I made up some story for why the cat scratched my face, since I had picked her up when I wasn't allowed to. It was ridiculous, but my parents believed me and they made a big joke out of it. Really it was only a hot topic for about a week, but they would occasionally mention it. Finally, six years later, I just told them the truth to get them to hush.

    I don't know if that counts though, since I wasn't really lying the entire time. I just put up with them joking about it for that long. Come to think of it, I don't know why I didn't tell them the truth for the whole time. Probably slipped my mind.
     
    I will admit that I do lie. It's not that I do it on purpose, but many situations arise where I have to like "withhold information", which technically counts as lying, since I'm not really saying the whole truth. Usually it's to spare someone's feelings, or something like that, and if it ever gets out of hand I'll tell the truth.
     
    I lied about my sexual orientation for about 20 years and I took clases of theatre so Im a very good lier.

    I also belive that, from time to time, lies are a necesity.
     
    It depends. If there's almost no chance that the person I'm lying to will find out that I've lied to them, then I'll lie. There is always a chance that they'll find out, but sometimes I have to take risks~
     
    I'll lie on occasion to get out of trouble or for personal gain and most of the time I've found I can get away with it. Most of the time, it's something trivial where I don't think others are going to look too hard into finding out if it's truth or not, so I don't have to worry too much about them looking into it anyway.
     
    I'm pretty good at telling usually when a lie can be kept up and believed and when it's too far and I have to tell the truth and apologize for lying. There are certain people I try really hard not to ever lie to though, and a lot of it depends on how honest they are with me. If I think of them as an especially honest person, I feel like I should work harder on being honest with them as well.
     
    I lie to get away from things or out of things - often conversations I don't wish to be in. I can commit to a lie as well; I have a great memory so I make sure I follow it through til it becomes irrelevant. I don't really feel any guilt about it; I never lie about anything important... just little day-to-day things that don't even matter.

    I don't make lying a habit though, because I like to be truthful and I like people to feel they can trust me (because they can). I save it for when I need it. But I can perpetuate a lie if I need to, no problem.
     
    There are a few lies that I've perpetuated for years on end (and they're still ongoing). They're not massive ones or anything like that (or even particularly damaging ones), and it'd probably be better if I just admitted to them, but that's probably not going to happen. If need be, I'm very good at continuing with pretending about the truth of certain situations... in many cases it's just easier to continue to lie than to admit the truth and face the consequences.

    BUT I'M A BAD EXAMPLE! DON'T LISTEN TO ME, KIDZ! :D
     
    I'm the worst liar in the world. Like really, even thinking about lying makes me shiver with guilt, lmao. @__@

    I remember when one guy approached me a day or two ago and asked me to buy him a cigar and asked my age, but I kinda lied about that because I had no idea who he was and it just came off as kinda creepy, so yeah. >__>
     
    I'm not really the lying type. Mostly I'm very truthful, and I will admit if I have done something wrong. The only times I will lie is if it is one of those "little white lies" or something, or lie about a bet, thats it.
     
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