What is a lie?

[CptCamoPants]

Honestly what do you think is today's greatest lie? 9/11? Money? Love?
Give me your opinion!

Hmm... I think... I don't know how to articulate it clearly, but something like being able to buy your way into the moral right. We buy these green things because we want to feel like we're saving the planet, these fair-trade coffee beans, these local, organic, fresh fruits. Some of us look at those who don't or who can't afford it with a raised eyebrow and a snort, "we're better than those people who don't care enough to pay a little extra to do the right thing." But really, we aren't buying these things out of the goodness of our heart. We're buying it because it's a status symbol. It puts us on higher moral ground. And, for reasons good or bad, the market realizes this and sells that belief to us. My point is not that you should boycott this movement just to spite whoever is trying to dupe you ? I actually think it's great that there's a market for doing the right thing ? but be aware that it doesn't make you a "better" person than anyone else. Some people just can't afford to buy social innocence.

An aside: The biggest lie is that hybrids are better for the environment.

Hell No.

It takes more energy and creates more emissions to manufacture one Prius than are produced over the entire life of a Hummer.

So the next time you see someone driving a hybrid, feel free to laugh loudly at their blatant hypocrisy.

There's also the fact that they use MORE energy to drive them. A regular car may get 25-40% (that's being VERY generous) of the energy stored in the gasoline. While a hybrid/electric car will get MAYBE 80% of the energy that flows through the cable, which is probably around 10% of the energy that comes from the source (if the source did nothing but produce energy for that one car)
I'm assuming the source of the energy is a coal or nuclear plant, by the way. Then there's the energy lost while it's traveling through the power lines, and the energy that's lost when you burn coal/ split atoms and spin that great big turbine in a power plant.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say in a very incoherent fashion, cuz I'm sleep deprived at the moment, is that more emissions are created getting power to those batteries in your super green hybrid cars then would be created if you just drove a bigassed truck around.

Sorry if you can't understand half of what I said, I need sleep.

 

[Jedoro]

Your governments. They're all just lies. We really run everything from behind the scenes. MUAHAHA!

It's true, I was actually the ruler of Iraq. Saddam was just a figurehead.

Damn you, Dubya!

 

[AvsJoe]

"It's your baby."

My friend's ex pulled that on him and he just laughed in her face. They had never had sex and that just proved that she had slept around.

 

[Debatra]

When legend becomes fact, print legend.

Legend is actually BASED on fact.

You fail.

The Reference You Missed, 5:00-6:17 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJNVgCHLR-k&feature=related]

 

[whoops1995]

Hope is a lie and you all know it. Just try and disagree with me I dare U!!!!!!!!!

Hope isn't a lie, it's an emotion people feel to help themselves cope with tough situations and since they believe in it, it's not a lie. Even if it is pointless, it's still there. Also if you don't have hope in anything you're the souless shell of a man. HAHAHAHHAHAHHA i argue everything.

 

[CoverYourHead]

A falsification of the truth. Yes I know this is not the topic, but I felt it needed to be said.

But seriously. The trickle-down theory of economics. The rich minority does NOT share its profits with the poor majority, that's why there is only a rich minority in the first place.

 

[gbemery]

I am asking for opinions not douche-bag-ism
If someone thinks its a conspiracy i want to know why otherwise butt out or atleast give me a good drink recipe (chocolate-milk, white russian I dont care)

But opinions and "douche-bag-ism" go hand in hand, as for a drink how about Drano, it is premixed for you.

Hooray everyone lets jump on the conspiracy theory bus! /sarcasm

Let's see how many BS conspiracies we can list. Minus the ones already listed such as 9/11 being a govt plot and money being useless, I would like to add the next obvious two, the Moon landing and Pearl Harbor.

Could anyone explain to me how Pear Harbor could ever be a conspiracy (I know you dont think that, but apparently some do). I mean really, how could you get the US to bribe the Japanese Navy to assult on our own land on our one vulnerable day.

I guess i could see how the 9/11 EVENT could possibly be a conspiracy (planting explosives and telling terrorists to hit X floor at Y time) but I dont beleive it at all.

Conspiracys are weird.

Because some people believe FDR knew about the attack, but didn't warn anyone. They also point to the fact that there was a brand new radar station built that should have been able to warn them of incoming planes and the bs list goes on.

 

[ZforZissou]

a lie is a bending of fact and reality; a warping of your view of reality while trying to twist others to your fallacious view.

however, if enough people come to believe in that lie, it may become the truth.

yes, i know, socrates would be proud.

This reminds me of Orwell's 1984. A lot.

 

[Sigel]

I'm great in bed!

LOL

Well practice makes perfect, so get to it. Failing that you can always give them this so they don't know difference.

31/2oz. Sweet and Sour mix, 11/2 oz. tequila, 1/2oz. triple sec, 1/2oz. lime juice, and a splash of OJ. Shake well with 1 cup of ice. Strain into salt rimmed glass, and garnish with a lime slice. Enjoy.

 

[Schlen]

Just so you know I am writing the down the drinks

How many of you have seen Zeitgeist/Addendum? anything but BS?