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We all want to forget something, so we tell stories. It's easier that way.
Selfish! What's wrong with that? That's the way we are, the way we live. You just can't live unless you're what you call selfish.

If men don't trust each other, this earth might as well be hell. No one will hear you, no matter how loud you shout. Just think. Which one of these stories do you believe? None makes any sense. Man just wants to forget the bad stuff, and believe in the made-up good stuff. It's easier that way.

It's human to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves. No one tells a lie after he's said he's going to tell one. Don't worry about it. It isn't as if men were reasonable. Men are only men. That's why they lie. They can't tell the truth, even to themselves.

But is there anyone who's really good? Maybe goodness is just make-believe. Because men are weak, they lie to deceive themselves. I don't mind a lie if it's interesting.

It's stolen. I took a bunch of different quotes from a nameless source, spliced and diced them, and wove them to sound like a stream of thought.

Now isn't that ironic? No, it's not, but it certainly puts an extra spin on the thought, don't you agree?

Though I basically said the same thing when I made that post about the hypocrisy of cutting up the plastic 6-pack rings. And it was more coherent.

Interestingly enough, the moral of the source I ripped it from was the exact opposite of what I've conveyed.

I think that the ability to develop and adapt outside concepts into individual thought is still a pretty impressive talent.

Re: Mifune - he is quite the man of the moment here, isn't he?

Rereading this thread, a decent chunk of my random thoughts are paraphrased or inspired from some outside source or other.
Also, one of the poems I posted in the poem thread was an adaptation of random phrases appearing on the front cover of a book (titled "The Good Book.") I guess you could say I'm a master of the parodic imagination.


He's the man. Period.

I know, right? I mean, really, jagjag types better than that, and she's 11!

I recall deciding that I was Sirius and... someones... love child. I don't remember who, though. ><

And, referring to the selfish post above, I think that it could be looked in two ways. Really, when you think about it, any selfless act that one may intend on doing really could be deciphered as a selfish act. Anything. But, it really comes down to what was intended by such an act. If someone fell on a sidewalk and you stopped to help them up, did you do it out of honest concern of the peron's wellbeing, or did you do it because you would feel bad if you didn't? Now, that's not directly related to the post, but... it's kind of in there.

Are men really good? I would like to think so, yes. There are people out there that don't like to lie, and will only do it if they feel a dire need to. My Mom won't lie to me, and I believe her. She has been honest and upfront with me my entire life about her opinions on things when I ask her and she'll always be that way.

In your opinion, are there situations where it is better to lie than to tell the truth?

Some people lie selfishly, some lie compassionately. It's a matter of evaluating the situation and doing what is right, not what is easy.

There are some cases in which one is bound to lie. For example, a doctor can't give details of a consultation to someone other than the patient without the patient's express consent (the exception being giving information to law enforcement agencies in the course of an investigation or informing authorities that a patient intends harm towards themselves or someone else). So if a fifteen-year-old girl's parents ring the doctor to demand whether their daughter has been asking for the contraceptive pill, the doctor is bound to answer that he can't tell them. That's still a lie of omission, isn't it?