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Originally Posted by jebartle
Granted, some folks are not worth the effort, just write it off, but I must say, it is something that goes back to my childhood days and the "dreaded bar of soap", I can honestly say that a lie is hard to accept to this day and especially from folks in the news.
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I agree with you. I find that I can avoid most lies simply by not watching television news or advertising of any sort on any network and not reading the memes on Facebook (I don’t use Twitter or other such apps) and not watching conspiracy theory videos on YouTube. Unfortunately, if a political figure lies or exaggerates, I can’t tell that person. If a meme is wrong, sometimes I find a refutation online and post that under the meme. If my dad gets a detail wrong, I am more likely to double check. Sometimes his sister remembers the story differently.
I don’t sense that many of my friends or acquaintances are lying to me, and I try to be accurate and not exaggerate. I recently published a book called “They Don’t Eat Missionaries Anymore,” based on a journal I kept while working in an operating room in an African hospital 45 years ago. As I reread the journal, I was dismayed to discover that a couple stories I’ve told for years were wrong—wrong patient, wrong circumstances. Most of us get details wrong about old stories. I want those details to be right.
If a friend had a habit of lying, I would draw back from that friendship and stop trusting the person.