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"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgressions and . . . their sins." Isa. 58:1.
22. Lies
22. 21. For further reading: Essays/Opinion Articles on Lying
[Inclusion here should not be construed as agreement with everything that may be found at these sites.]
Web sites that deal primarily or strictly with lies and lying:"Liars dipping into America's cookie jar"
". . . in so many ways, we are all ... living a lie. We live many lies."
http://www.daily.umn.edu/daily/1998/10/07/editorial_opinions/o1007/
"Lying In State - And Elsewhere", By Bob Black
"The corruption of language promotes the corruption of life. It is even its prerequisite."
http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~baitoven/interlink/lying.html
"New Cultural Norm: Lying is OK"
http://home.netcom.com/~owensva/lying.html
"The Truth About Our Lies", by: Phillip Tanaka
"Most often though, and with the lies that have the deepest roots, we lie because we are afraid to face the truth."
http://members.web-o.net/rpargman/truth.html
http://www.lies.com/
http://www.liespeopletell.com/
The Sin of Lying
http://www.slsoftware.com/study/html outlines/Sin Of Lying.html
Why lying is wrong.
"Lying", by Jonathan Wallace
http://www.spectacle.org/0500/lies.html
The relationship between fear and lying in children. (This also applies to adults.)
"The Heart of Anxiety, Panic, Phobias & Lying"
http://www.crisiscounseling.com/Articles/FearAnxietyPhobiaLying.htm
"The Sin Of Lying" by B. E. Echols.
An online book listing 62 types of lies or situations in which lies are told, types of liars, the results of lying and the solutions for lying.
http://www.apostolic.net/lying.htm
"Integrity International presents ...National Honesty & Integrity Month"
http://www.whistleblower.com/integrity
"Liar, liar: Seven degrees on the downward staircase of honesty."
(sin, self-protection, habituation, self-deception, rationalization, technique, morality is reversed)
By J. Budziszewski
http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/08-28-99/closing_1.asp
Hoaxes in the News: Hoaxes currently making headlines
Hoax Websites: These aren't sites about hoaxes.These are sites that are, themselves, hoaxes.
The Gullibility Test: How gullible are you? Take this test to find out.
Hoax Pictures: A gallery of hoax pictures and pictures of hoaxes
April Fool's Day Gallery
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/aprilfool.html
SEVENTEEN BIG LIES
http://peaceworld.freeservers.com/150SEVENTEENBIGLIES.htm
Web sites that deal with lying in a specific context:
The effects of a lying society on youth:
"Out the Truth -- Fight the Culture
An open letter to the people and the powerful
I can't stand the lies anymore. I have to speak out."
http://www.opinionet.com/commentary/guests/gc60.htm
Addiction:
Alcoholism, drugs, gambling.
http://www.robertperkinson.com/alcoholism-treatment.htm
Smoking
A Critical Assessment of "Lies, Damned Lies, & 400,000 Smoking-Related Deaths" by Robert Levy and Rosalind Marimont Published in Regulation, Fall 1998, by Alicia M. Lukachko, M.P.H. and Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
http://www.acsh.org/publications/reports/cato99.html
Dating and relationships
http://www.muohio.edu/psybersite/bars/lying.htx
Politics:
"Lies, Lies, Lies", By Paul Gray, All Politics, CNN TIME, October 5, 1992.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/10/06/back.time/
"Dangerous Lies"
by: John Ellis © Boston Globe
http://www.davidicke.net/emagazine/vol3/lies.html
"Liar, Liar", by Sunni Maravillosa
"The candidate-liars not only destroy our minds with their twists and turns of the truth, they create liars of those who participate in the electoral process."
http://zolatimes.com/V4.45/liar_liar.htm
"Apathy to political lying a mark of our Gelded Age"
http://www.pastors.org/alertarchives/alert020800.html
(political satire) Guide to Deception without lies and perjury
http://dicksguides2.com/ClintonGuidetoLying.html
News and Opinion, Weekly Alibi: "With Liberty and Lying for All"
http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/02-23-98/alibi_opinion.html
Media:
The Invisible Hand of the Media
http://thewinds.arcsnet.net/arc_features/media/disinfo9-97.html
Lying and the Left:
"LYING AND THE LEFT"
The Goldberg File, 8/23/99
http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg082499.html
Academe:
"Dubious Behavior On the Job"
By Michael Bugeja , June 29, 2001
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/06/2001062903c.htm
Athletes, Sportsmen, Adventurers and Explorers have lied:
"Truth Be Told They Lied", By Philip Weiss
Sport and adventure are often yoked to deception, and the chronicle of outdoor accomplishment comes studded with tales of those who deployed the Big Lie.
http://www.outsidemag.com/magazine/0597/9705biglie.html
Is it possible to be consistently truthful?:
"The Lie", By Hilmar von Campe
http://www.voncampe.com/articles/theLie.shtm
"Radical Honesty"
"We all lie like hell. It wears us out. It is the major source of all human stress. Lying kills people."
Brad Blanton
http://www.slackananda.com/misc/radicalhonesty.html
Lie Detection:
"Thermal camera may detect lying"
"The device consists of a high-definition thermal imaging camera the size of a shoebox. The scientists also have developed a miniaturized version of the camera, roughly the diameter of a postage stamp.
"As people lie, there is a massive increase in blood flow around the eyes, and associated with that there is sudden warming around the eyes, where the color changes to white in the thermal imaging system,". . ."
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=01012002-053506-3828r
Lying and humor:(parenting and children)
Liar, Liar (or the Secret of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy)
Linda M. Sharp
http://www.parenthood.com/articles/phw1239.htm
(hunting and fishing)
"Parking Lot Lies" by The White Oak Mountain Ranger
http://www.southeasternoutdoors.com/articles/lies.html
Snipe Hunter's Association of America
http://discocentral.com/snipehunter/main.html
(fishing and politics)
What if everyone became a fisherman?
http://www.sioutdoors.com/stories/coulmn032997.html
"My First Lie and How I Got Out of It", By Mark Twain
http://www.boondocksnet.com/twaintexts/myfirstlie.html
(satire)
"Now I knew the secret. Now I knew the source of my original problem, the root of my lying difficulties. I had been laboring under a terrible misconception. At that moment I realized I had been trapped under a tyranny. Foolishly, I had assumed that truth was the norm, the standard, the appropriate mode. I had fallen under the sway of that tired, old axiom, honesty is the best policy. But why? Where was there any evidence to support that adage? Where was there one concrete example of a human life actually functioning according to or being improved by truth? Accomplishment, benefit, success, all came from manipulation, imitation and, deception. Truth as an ideal was merely another fraud to keep people in line, to dupe them into confessing their sins, to make them behave. The world turned on a lie. All along I had failed to see that lying was not simply an occasionally necessary strategy but rather a superior state of being.
Presentation and context were no longer recurrent problems to solve now that I was released from any respect for truth. The lie was my meat, my element, second nature to me."
"Learning to Lie" by Tim Poland
http://www.edge-city.com/page10.htm
(satire with a point)
http://www.sioutdoors.com/stories/coulmn032997.html
(humor: advertising lies)
"Giving Your Goat A Panic Attack" By Harvey L. Gardner
I thought a Madison Avenue advertising guru discovered the power of words, but I was wrong. They just stole the concept from the ancient writer of Proverbs.
http://www.tantalizingtrivialities.com/article1003.html
"LIAR, LIAR"
http://www.groomers.com/KatHog/liar.html
(humor: Greeks)
Greek Virtues: “All Cretans are liars.”
http://www.grahamjoyce.net/about/opinion/greeks.html
Lying in other countries:
Exam cheats riot in Bangladesh
May 13, 2001, DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Education officials said nearly 9,000 students were expelled from centres across the country for copying on Saturday. Riots have erupted across Bangladesh after a mass cheating scandal in final exams was foiled by police. More than 100 people were hurt when the college students went on rampages, beating teachers and breaking windows, police and officials said Sunday.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/05/13/bangladesh.exams/index.html
Lying in China: China: On the brink of a moral crisis?
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/14/willy.column/index.html