http://www.deceptionsecrets.com/2009/02/04/part-ii-the-truth-comes-around-as-told-by-a-dead-mule-150-years-later/ Been lied to lately? Or could you tell--how to master deception, lying, and conversation... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:03:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.deceptionsecrets.com/2009/02/04/part-ii-the-truth-comes-around-as-told-by-a-dead-mule-150-years-later/comment-page-1/#comment-52 ***jeannie*** Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:42:46 +0000 http://www.deceptionsecrets.com/?p=41#comment-52 This is good stuff, Jef. It is better to stand up for the truth, even if it can be painful or embarrassing, because the consequences of the opposite are worse. Yes, one can buy time, but can that person sleep at night? In the case the boy who told the reporters that he tried to save the mule, he was surely satisfied with the lie because he obviously died with it - except that everybody knows it forever and ever. This is good stuff, Jef.
It is better to stand up for the truth, even if it can be painful or embarrassing, because the consequences of the opposite are worse. Yes, one can buy time, but can that person sleep at night?
In the case the boy who told the reporters that he tried to save the mule, he was surely satisfied with the lie because he obviously died with it - except that everybody knows it forever and ever.

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