Flame — HabitableZone

Flame » in reply to "And there, bunkie, I got ya: My definition of "lie" can be found in a dictionary. Where in the universe did you get yours?"..... Does the Mirriam-Webster dictionary count? You will, of course apolog…

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Robert — (archived)

I see by the timestamps it took you four days to shop around for a definition from which you could cherrypick an obscure alternate usage that could be spun to maybe sort of suggest you aren't entirely full of [it].

I mean, geez, the best you could get out of the first one, after four days of looking, was "may or may not be believed true". Amazing. And in your second attempt all you got, at #3 down the list, is "an inaccurate or false statement", which says nothing about intent, but neither does it support your contention that a "lie" is something believed to be true; and at #6, scraping closer to the bottom of the barrel, we get "6. to express what is false; convey a false impression", which in fact reads as though it implies deliberate intent through the verbs "express" and "convey".

There is lying by omission, and there is lying by distortion and misdirection; and it's the second one you're guilty of here.

Give it up, RL. You're only demonstrating the sort of obsessive behavior more characteristic of the True Believers you hate so much. You're coming across as the jihadist of your own personal religion.

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