Biggest lie ever?

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No matter who you are and where you come from, If you believe in yourself and work hard your dreams will come true.

 

[MarchingSaint]

The idea that the world is organized by a superior and kind entity, created by our mind in order to bear the harshness of existence. In other words, in front of a disharmonic, cruel and not providential world , man had to persuade himself and his offspring that the world is something "logical", beneficial and provvidential.
Still it does not bother me, everyone simply need something to believe in even if a lie.
But who are we to say that something is absolutely true or absolutely false?

 

[JKgo]

...Heh, I've been told another lie today: that Dragonball Z WAS THE BEST ANIME EVAH.

...NOPE.

 

[MarchingSaint]

...Heh, I've been told another lie today: that Dragonball Z WAS THE BEST ANIME EVAH.

...NOPE.

Don't.

 

[JKgo]

Don't.

...A fan?

 

[Liquid]

...A fan?

No. The essance of your posts falls outside of the unwritten spirit for this subforum.

This is the serious side of the forum, where the critical thinkers do their crunching and the tinhatters do their preaching. It's not somewhere to say "lol this one time this thing happened to me lol".

If you really want to genuinely go on about whether DBZ is the best anime ever, you should probably go to the Movies & TV section.

 

[JKgo]

No. The essance of your posts falls outside of the unwritten spirit for this subforum.

This is the serious side of the forum, where the critical thinkers do their crunching and the tinhatters do their preaching. It's not somewhere to say "lol this one time this thing happened to me lol".

If you really want to genuinely go on about whether DBZ is the best anime ever, you should probably go to the Movies & TV section.

... I tried there, but too many denial-ists over yonder kicked me to the curve. At least here, thinkers can...do their thinking stuff freely.

 

[lbsf1]

Religion??

I have a feeling though that the biggest lie is something we don't know yet, if it is significantly big and important then it will be correspondingly well hidden.

 

[ImaRobot]

No. The essance of your posts falls outside of the unwritten spirit for this subforum.

This is the serious side of the forum, where the critical thinkers do their crunching and the tinhatters do their preaching. It's not somewhere to say "lol this one time this thing happened to me lol".

If you really want to genuinely go on about whether DBZ is the best anime ever, you should probably go to the Movies & TV section.

If you haven't noticed, he does that very often in this sub forum. Posts a bunch of pictures with more or less no insight on the subject, more so to just get someone to hopefully pay attention to it.

 

[Kryption]

Biggest lie ever is when my wife says there's nothing wrong.

 

[JKgo]

If you haven't noticed, he does that very often in this sub forum. Posts a bunch of pictures with more or less no insight on the subject, more so to just get someone to hopefully pay attention to it.

...You got me there. Guilty as charged.

 

[Vegard]

There exists information relating to the JFK assassination, the Apollo program and 9/11 which will likely remain classified for many decades to come.

So naturally all these are fair game for lighthearted suspicion as lies or conspiracies. But all of these events are foundational to our current understanding of reality, validity of our current government, and the status of truth and morality in our current culture and worldview. So they are off limits to serious challenge, let alone revelation or proof as lies.

Most of alive today may never know the full truth of any of it, and for very understandable reasons.

Oh, that reminds me: WTC7 collapsed mainly due to fire. -NIST

 

[ULTRAVIOLENZZ]

World Peace.

 

[Shiftlockin]

National "security".

 

[DQuaN]

I think the most commonly told lie nowadays is...

"I have read and agree to the terms and conditions".

 

[Shiftlockin]

Yeah I told that lie a bunch of times today.

 

[RACECAR]

I think the most commonly told lie nowadays is...

"I have read and agree to the terms and conditions".

Chances are if you watched porn at a age you weren't supposed to, this is probably the best lie you've ever told in your life

 

[Ridox2JZGTE]

All LED LCD TV ads and marketing words of being the best in picture quality. Plasma still the king until the day OLED can take over.

 

[Imari]

Chances are if you watched porn at a age you weren't supposed to, this is probably the best lie you've ever told in your life

If?

In the age of internet, is it actually possible to get to the age of majority without seeing porn?

 

[FoRiZon]

I think the most commonly told lie nowadays is...

"I have read and agree to the terms and conditions".

Ahem:

"I have read and agree to the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)"

Ba dum tss

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Well...

I can't, but that's besides the point...

As for biggest lies, I feel Iran Contra, Roswell, Golf of Tonkin, How much is actually known about Kennedy brothers assassination, MK Ultra, Iraq having WMDs and many more but those are the biggest to me.

 

[Smurfybug]

If?

In the age of internet, is it actually possible to get to the age of majority without seeing porn?

There probably is. But for the generation now, Nope.

 

[Hayden]

If?

In the age of internet, is it actually possible to get to the age of majority without seeing porn?

I believe that with the combination of high speed internet, unlimited bandwidth, unsupervised browsing, social networks and personal devices (now common for very many young children) It is only a matter of time before they see porn. What actually gets them there, be it pop ups on dodgy game websites, bad links, facebook posts, friends or old fashioned curiosity is another matter.

I grew up in a very small town with terrible Internet and supervised, limited browsing. I believe my first introduction to porn was in the first week of high school. I had a phone put in my hand and was told to watch "this fully awesome video" which turned out to be an extremely vile beastiallity video. I found it revolting and immediately handed back the phone and walked off.

Kids always have and always will share porn with each other because it's something new (and depending on their development) very exciting to them. All that's different in the modern era is the pure ease of accessibility. It is literally there all the time.

As a result, I feel that kids are seeing it far younger and far more than any generation that came before. Connected technology is, in my opinion, causing kids to grow up faster and I don't believe that's a good thing. I feel that there could be long term psychological, behavioural or other issues caused by this trend. Time will tell.

 

[CodeRedR51]

As a result, I feel that kids are seeing it far younger and far more than any generation that came before. Connected technology is, in my opinion, causing kids to grow up faster and I don't believe that's a good thing. I feel that there could be long term psychological, behavioural or other issues caused by this trend. Time will tell.

My nephew could handle a touch screen device (cell phone, tablet) at the age of 5 far better than both of my parents can. Scary, yes. I do think it's nice that kids are in touch with and can pick up technology pretty early in their lives, but I do agree that too much of it can hurt.

 

[Imari]

As a result, I feel that kids are seeing it far younger and far more than any generation that came before. Connected technology is, in my opinion, causing kids to grow up faster and I don't believe that's a good thing. I feel that there could be long term psychological, behavioural or other issues caused by this trend.

I think you should consider that the majority of children in the past did not grow up as the sheltered offspring of high nobles.

Not so long ago, it was not uncommon for children to be working from a very early age. Think about all the things that a common Victorian era child would see, the mistresses, the brothels, the casual violence. The general disregard for death, which was so much more common back then than we would accept today.

I rather think it's the opposite, children these days grow up far more sheltered than ever before. Which means that on the rare occasion that they do encounter sex or violence, they're wholly unprepared for it.

 

[Hayden]

I rather think it's the opposite, children these days grow up far more sheltered than ever before...

I am of course aware of the living conditions of generations past and agree with what you are saying.

The issues I referred to, in the scheme of the modern western world, can be seen as very serious. Whether or not it compares to what true horrors children of yesteryear had to endure is not entirely relevant.

 

[Imari]

I am of course aware of the living conditions of generations past and agree with what you are saying.

The issues I referred to, in the scheme of the modern western world, can be seen as very serious. Whether or not it compares to what true horrors children of yesteryear had to endure is not entirely relevant.

It is when you say...

As a result, I feel that kids are seeing it far younger and far more than any generation that came before.

I disagree, for the reasons that I said.

Frankly, if it counts as "serious" that children have to worry about their friends rickrolling them with animal porn, then they've got it pretty sweet compared to most children of just about every other age in history.

 

[Hayden]

@Imari- I'm not denying that. The concern I was trying to imply wasn't about being shown a video in the light that I was, so much as stumbling upon and becoming a user of pornography at an extremely young age.

With instant access, various entry points, unrealistic (and graphic) content and unsupervised use of devices; porn use at a young age (and the psychological issues involved) are a concern to me.

 

[Imari]

...porn use at a young age (and the psychological issues involved) are a concern to me.

Why?

To keep this relevant to the lies thread, lies about sex are another big one that is told to children. A lot of children don't learn about sex for a long time, and when they do it's often a highly censored version of it that doesn't really make sense.

The only psychological issues involved are when the people around the children make them feel bad for being naturally curious about their bodies, the bodies of the other gender, and where they came from. Children should be curious about that stuff, and I'm not surprised that the negative reaction that they get asking for help tends to mess them up sometimes.

Likewise adults who are so uncomfortable with porn and sex that they don't take the time to explain it to their children are not helping either. Porn actors and actresses are mostly professionals, they do things that your average person doesn't. If a kid watches Formula 1 and asks "so, is that how you drive too Daddy?", you explain carefully that these are professional drivers in a specific situation and that it's different to the ordinary everyday driving that you do.

Why exactly is sex and/or porn a bad thing? I think demonising porn use is shifting the burden of responsibility from where it should be; namely, squarely on the shoulders of the caregivers.

Porn is fine when used appropriately and with an understanding of what it's for, just like sports programs or action movies. You don't let children watch Die Hard without explaining that this is just a fantasy for fun, we don't go around shooting hundreds of people with machine guns like this in real life. Why shouldn't porn be treated the same way?

You can't shield your children from everything, far better to get in early and educate them how you want them educated before the world does it for you.

That, or put them in a bubble.

 

[Alutec]

Course maker. (Had to lmao)