People don't lie to themselves. They try to convince themselves of things they know aren't true. As for the lies I think he told...
"Of course you don't look fat in that dress"
"Haha, it's fine."
"I'm alright with doing it if that's what you want."
"Sure, I don't mind pancakes instead of waffles."
Definition of lie: a false statement made with the deliberate intent to deceive, an intentional untruth, a falsehood.
Trying “deliberately to convince yourself of something untrue”?
You’re lying to yourself.
I also add that a lie is also to assert as fact that which is not evidently true. If you have the ability to prove something, and you refuse to do research on it, then you have lied. If you believe vaccines cause autism, and you tell me that, I'll call you a fucking liar because we've proven it to be wrong dozens of times and it's never even been shown to be correct once.
If you claim something is true then you are implicitly asserting that you have evidence that it is true. Your implicit assertion that it is has evidence when it does not causes it to be a lie.
There is a bit of nuance here as it can be broken down into mistaken and deceitful. A child claiming they saw a unicorn is a lie because they asserted what they thought was true even though it isn't true, but they didn't "lie". The child is simply mistaken. Their naivety and lack of reasoning skills means that they aren't to blame. This is funny.
Meanwhile, an adult claiming that vaccines cause autism is asserting that they have evidence to prove that they do when they do not. Assuming this person doesn't have a debilitating illness, they were deceitfully lying because they told a lie knowing that they have no evidence for it. They know exactly how dishonest they are being and are therefore being deceitful. This is disgusting and dangerous.
People that assert that vaccines cause autism are not knowingly causing misinformation. They wholeheartedly believe this fact and as such are spouting lies without lying.
When you say something you are actually saying two things. 1) Vaccines cause autism and 2) This belief is justified with evidence. Children don't understand that #2 is implied while adults do. Therefore, the person saying this is lying. Asserting as fact that which is not evidently true is lying.
99% of people on the planet do not understand that evidence is a thing that is required for anything.
The actual definition of lying very clearly says that it is knowingly false. Any further requirements are those placed by the individual and not as part of the definition as a whole and as such are not relevant to the semantics
It depends on the lie, but generally speaking I have a lot of issues with lying as it usually seems unnecessary, and tends to make me feel decently guilty.
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Unrelated, the squirrel in the tree outside just hit itself in the eye with it's own tail (due to the wind) and seems somewhat put out about the whole thing
Similar for me.
That‘s one of the funniest things I‘ve read today. It can‘t hit the wind so now it has to deal with it. The squirrels are putting up a show for you(unknowing to them)
Honestly, they're a little out of control lately. They'll spend 45 minutes chattering at absolutely nothing until another finally gets annoyed enough to come shut the first one up.
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Although tbh the magpies are entertaining as hell. They seem so graceful when they're flying around, and then you see one land on the edge of a bird bath and slip right in.. Or try and land on a wire and almost spin 360 around it
Not particularly. Sometimes if they won't stop chattering for an hour or so it can be grating, or do a trust excessive involving oncoming traffic
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I think they need to master basic standing, first haha
Squirrels are strange critters. I read that Squirrels are “acrobatic, INTELLIGENT, and adaptable.“ I don‘t know what to believe now.
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Xvarnah, don‘t crush their dreams of become professional swimmers. You‘ll break their hearts
They're certainly acrobatic. Idk about intelligent or not haha. They're probably more intelligent than they let on and this is all some scheme to lure us into a false sense of security
I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore—
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”
"Of course you don't look fat in that dress"
"Haha, it's fine."
"I'm alright with doing it if that's what you want."
"Sure, I don't mind pancakes instead of waffles."
Trying “deliberately to convince yourself of something untrue”?
You’re lying to yourself.
There is a bit of nuance here as it can be broken down into mistaken and deceitful. A child claiming they saw a unicorn is a lie because they asserted what they thought was true even though it isn't true, but they didn't "lie". The child is simply mistaken. Their naivety and lack of reasoning skills means that they aren't to blame. This is funny.
Meanwhile, an adult claiming that vaccines cause autism is asserting that they have evidence to prove that they do when they do not. Assuming this person doesn't have a debilitating illness, they were deceitfully lying because they told a lie knowing that they have no evidence for it. They know exactly how dishonest they are being and are therefore being deceitful. This is disgusting and dangerous.
The actual definition of lying very clearly says that it is knowingly false. Any further requirements are those placed by the individual and not as part of the definition as a whole and as such are not relevant to the semantics
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Unrelated, the squirrel in the tree outside just hit itself in the eye with it's own tail (due to the wind) and seems somewhat put out about the whole thing
That‘s one of the funniest things I‘ve read today. It can‘t hit the wind so now it has to deal with it. The squirrels are putting up a show for you(unknowing to them)
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Although tbh the magpies are entertaining as hell. They seem so graceful when they're flying around, and then you see one land on the edge of a bird bath and slip right in.. Or try and land on a wire and almost spin 360 around it
Those silly magpies. Did the poor thing manage to get out of the bird bath?
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Yes, they usually seem to haha
If things get odder, soon the magpies will start swimming
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I think they need to master basic standing, first haha
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Xvarnah, don‘t crush their dreams of become professional swimmers. You‘ll break their hearts
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore—
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”
nice.