Maybe all or most of us fit the description of liars and hypocrites, depending on the subject. By 'liars' I don't mean intentional prevarication but repeating untruths because we believe them sincerely.

Today, I experienced something that was very uplifting on my part that might have been other wise for others. A man, a Phd, whom I hold in very high esteem called me an ignorant man. NOrmally those kinds of insults are like proverbial water on a duck's back when originating from people about whom we hold a simiar opinion. I have, however, supported his ideas and have purchased his books addressing some very profound issues with nothing short of genius.

So, one might imagine that such a statement might be recieved as hurtful. In my case it was enlightening and I'm grateful for his honestly meant criticism. It served to illustrate for me how none of us, no matter how intelligent or in possession of expertise in a specific area, gets everything. Knowing a lot about one or two things doesn't make us experts in all things. Unfortunately, human ego often gives us false pride because of stellar achievements in a body of knowledge, convincing us that we possess sagacity in other areas about which we are woefully ignorant.

So, what I'm saying is, that it feels good to be insulted by a person with such grand scientific credentials that I fully agree with and support when I discover that by his insult, his understanding of what I know well is so lacking. I love his genius but find high comedy in his pretensions of superiority in areas about which he knows so little.

How many topics I address showing myself to be equally hypocritical and one who conveys 'lies' ramains to be seen. Perhaps some of you will point them out.

Liars and hypocrites are very good at avoiding the truth and the people who bring it.
Sarah Sanders is a prime example of this.

That would be trumpty dumpty's people.

Truth is reality.

Really? They fear the truth most of all? Surely what this US Administration has taught us - not just in the US, but all around the world - is that if you get caught out for lying or being a hypocrite, simply dismiss that proof as "fake". Truth has lost its currency. If you can brash it out - particularly with the backing of a television and online network - then you ain't got nothing to fear. Alternative facts, baby, those aren't the future - they are the present.

Liars and hypocrites are selfish. They never think beyond themselves. Selfish people don't think of the impact they have on other people. Often their lies leave lifelong emotional scars on the people they supposedly care about making it difficult for those people to trust anyone.

Not so sure about that, both of them need "the truth" (whatever that is), to obscure or twist.

Truths of the world are relative, situational and based on view points. The liar and the hypocrite make use of truth's relativity to enable their lies and facades.

These days, I don't think they fear much.

It's a funny old game. Untruth can be nailed down to very few personsal traits or personality types. Quite often people eminent in anything will be completely inept socially or struggle. Thier truth is their work. Everything & everyone else is painful. I am truth. I always face it. I know that isn't typical. Metaphysics says there cannot be truth yet in practical reality it's what we agree is proven after being tested. Politically, globally, currently I think we are at a pinnacle of untruth. Also socially. Hence the general lack of distrust. I live by truth as much as possible. Some people's I find a little wide of the grade ! Always scares some people, always will.

That is up for grabs...there are certain personalities that cannot fear a different truth, than the one that they have at that moment, because their perception is their truth! I think this true in the case of trump, his whole reality is slanted toward a different angle, than normal people! To him, his is telling the truth! Example...has he changed since he took to the world stage? Even when he has been called out on a daily basis, for his lying!

It's why they fight so hard against it.

Ever notice how the biggest, most committed liars seem to be the quickest to accuse others of lying? I am directly thinking of our nation's current president. Literally everything he accuses other public figures of doing, we eventually find out he has been grotesquely guilty of, himself. What a surprise (not so much.) ALL politicians play loosely with truth. It gets very "bendy" in their hands. A 2016 independent analysis figured that the MOST honest of Presidents and those running for that office were only completely telling the truth about 62% of the time. But Donald Trump was in a class of compulsive liar rarely ever even seen before. The only other politician to come close to his level of sheer dishonesty, according to the survey, was Ted Cruze. Good job, America! You elected a severe malignant narcissist and pathological liar to be "leader of the free world."

Indeed

It's hard to make them see reality without angering them. That's the trick really is to offer them facts in a way that let's them reach their own conclusions. If nothing else plant a seed in their brains and hope it roots in the BS they have been fed.

Only if people recognize the truth.

What Liars and Hypocrites love the most is truth because once you can center on a fact or certainty then you have an audience and are guaranteed the most assured debate from those who haven't a clue about what they are talking about. Hate to bring it up but look at what is happening right now in America by one of the most ignorant persons ever appointed to the Office who did it with outside money, coersion and used as his slogan "Fake New" and still at this very moment is spewing it out every time he lies, gets caught in a lie or else destroys a democratic process for his own egotistical persona.

I'd say everyone fears the truth. Because it could be something that is wrong with us as people.

I welcome truth and I enjoy discovering hidden histories, but as time goes on less and less people will remember the true history and it will be forgotten forever because mainstream history is written by the victors.

That's why I decided to create an archive of history that I see every year. Be it the situation in South Africa or the Mass Shootings in the USA. I want my descedants to know the facts behind what happened, rather than read the half-truths in their history textbooks.

Amen!!!!!!

Yes.

Amen

I don't consider myself a liar or a hypocrit but the truth is a tough place for anyone, if for no other reason than it's a solitary journey.

What anyone fears most is the truth.

I think this should include all sales people and politicians. Well maybe I'm being too hard on them 95% is probably a realistic number

Not just the truth, but their beliefs beign countered with teh truth in front of other people. That is what they fear most. They fear the embarassment of the truth provign them wrong in front of others.

Yes. This is why they change the subject almost every time they hear truth.

Poetic but inaccurate. The truth is a liar's greatest weapon