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The Problem With A Liar
I composed this in my head while walking through New Kingston day-before-yesterday:
There used to be a series of commercials on local radio for Smirnoff Ice sub-titled "Intelligent Nightlife" which posed people in various situations apparently exhibiting "Intelligence" by telling various lies. In the skit I was thinking about, a high ranking police officer is on the 'phone with a businessman of some sort, who is informed that according to some very officious-sounding section of the building code, his building "needs to be inspected tonight!". The businessman complains that his staff is working, To which the officer replies that they need to be sent home. The next scene takes place presumably in a bar or club or some such venue when the businessman's friends express surprise at him being there. He tells how he was called be the police officer and one of his friends finishes the officer's sentence...
I'm not even curious how this could be construed as intelligence. The point I'd like to make though is this: That having done this once, what sort of an impression do you think it might have left on on those who experienced this fellow's antic? If he tells one of them the next day that "the sky is blue", do you think it would have quite the same effect as some one else saying the same thing, except whose word had never been proven false? If this fellow does this sort of a thing repeatedly, (as liars tend to) I tell you this: eventually when he tells one of his friends- one who knows him well- "The sky is blue". Mark my word- this person is going to instinctively process that man's words...
Such a man should not think it strange if on a clear day in the great outdoors; he has trouble convincing the person right next to him that "the sky is blue".