I saw that show "Lie to Me." Pretty much pure fiction, but I would love to find out how to tell if someone is lying to you. I am actually pretty good at it, I always seem to "know" when someone is lying. I have very strong instincts that are like, never wrong. It would be nice, though, to study the nonverbal and verbal cues to the point where I can back up my instincts, and also have the outright courage to say something like, "You just lied to me, you sucker."
I am a terrible liar. For one, my conscious eats at me until I finally blurt out the truth. And really, I am just not good at it. Take for example when I was 12. My best friend lived on my street, and going inside her house was like taking a step back into the 50's. Dark and bland, with a sewing room, even. Her mom was sort of a health nut, and every time I went over, she was trying to shove vitamins down my throat.
Well, one day, my friend came over and said, "You want to eat dinner at my house? We're having spaghetti." Well, I knew that would be trouble, since I don't like sauce on my spaghetti (just tons of butter, salt and pepper), and EVERYONE knows the only one who knows how to make spaghetti right is your own mom. So, I stood there, thinking fast. I said, "I...can't. I...um...um...well, we're going somewhere in just a few minutes...so...I'm not allowed." Plus, I didn't like to swallow pills, and I knew there would be vitamins on my plate.
So, she left, a little sad. And I probably ended up eating poptarts for dinner.
Ten minutes later, I was speeding up and down on the street on my bike in full view. And yep, she saw me, and knew I lied. Back then, I didn't really care. We still joke about that to this day. I really feel bad about that. But come on, who wants someone else's mom's spaghetti?
Interesting fact about honest people, they're the ones that can't lie on a polygraph and who they are aimed at. But the habitual liar can actually convince themselve the lie is truth and pass the poly. It was either Ames or Block (two traitors) that was a habitual liar and fooled the poly. Now the polygraphers will swear you can't fool it, but the techys will admit it can be done. I myself had to periodically take the poly for my job and I HATED it. I passed every time I took it but I dreaded it for weeks before, like a root canal, as do all honest people.
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Interesting fact about honest people, they're the ones that can't lie on a polygraph and who they are aimed at. But the habitual liar can actually convince themselve the lie is truth and pass the poly. It was either Ames or Block (two traitors) that was a habitual liar and fooled the poly. Now the polygraphers will swear you can't fool it, but the techys will admit it can be done. I myself had to periodically take the poly for my job and I HATED it. I passed every time I took it but I dreaded it for weeks before, like a root canal, as do all honest people.
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