There is a term for this in psychology/psychiatry. It's called 'confabulation'. This is when you repeat a lie so often that it becomes a part of your 'personal narrative' and is no longer distinguishable in your own mind from events that actually have happened to you. This is where the 'false memory syndrome' happens.
What happened to people's word.
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In a world where winning is everything . It seems we encourage cheats and make them heroes and when we find out about it we become disillusioned and stand back in judgment of human failures and lack of morality and ethics of the world they themselves helped to create.
Sorry to hear you got lied to J.O.. Every time it happens to me, I pick myself up and dust myself off, and give again. All I can I hope is that I'm developing better antennae and better boundaries in the process...[/QUOTE]
I've developed pretty good radar so it's not one situation. Its a daily thing in all avenues be it work and business or community. Seems as a whole the ability to be honest and have integrity have gone way down the list of importance while being deceitful and dishonest have taken great leaps up.
I've developed pretty good radar so it's not one situation. Its a daily thing in all avenues be it work and business or community. Seems as a whole the ability to be honest and have integrity have gone way down the list of importance while being deceitful and dishonest have taken great leaps up.
MUST point out that kids' spelling is a plural possessive and thus requires an apostrophe AFTER the s.But kids spelling, grammar and ability to NOT walk into telephone poles whilst texting was a lot better 20 years ago.
Much Love,
Miss Grammar Erica
Nice you have a "jobe", but do you have a job?Laffing out lawd!
I was always horrible, spell check is the only reason I can keep my jobe, but I still have yet to walk into anything texting
I am seriously wondering if people are all that much more deceitful today. I'm not that old, so how far back do we look to compare?
Twenty years ago, a friend(?), caught out of town while driving without her license, gave the police officer my name when asked (unbeknownst to me, of course). You can imagine my shock and horror when a police officer showed up at my door with a warrant for my arrest. Fortunately, he believed my story.
I'm sure many of us have tales to tell about having been lied to in business, in relationships, in families (haven't you ever told a lie?). And isn't that what Shakespeare writes about?
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/playanalysis/deceptioninhamlet.html
Twenty years ago, a friend(?), caught out of town while driving without her license, gave the police officer my name when asked (unbeknownst to me, of course). You can imagine my shock and horror when a police officer showed up at my door with a warrant for my arrest. Fortunately, he believed my story.
I'm sure many of us have tales to tell about having been lied to in business, in relationships, in families (haven't you ever told a lie?). And isn't that what Shakespeare writes about?
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/playanalysis/deceptioninhamlet.html
