Facial Expressions of Women
Here is something fun for the 4th of July!
I looked over this and I thought it was pretty accurate and funny!!
Thanks, Chris, for all your content links!
True Despair
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The Fog of Emotions
I have mentioned several times on my blog about how emotions can interfere with anyone’s ability to see the truth. If you are human, you are prone to this quagmire. I’ve written about it here and here.
I’ve always said that if I am emotionally involved in a situation, that is when my “lie-dar”, as I call it, jams up and becomes unreliable. Of course, that is nothing specific to me. It applies to every one of us.
Read moreIt is during these times, that I have become very aware to not trust myself. If I am emotional, I will defer judgement on just about anything until a later time when I feel I am in a logical frame of mind.
But what I didn’t know is that emotional turmoil can also impact our abilities longer term. Seven weeks ago, my life started on a roller coaster path, which has just recently subsided, and I am surprised at how it has affected me over these weeks, and it is still not yet resolved.
During the height of my emotions, naturally I couldn’t focus on things because I was distraught, but now that I have gotten myself back on track, I am still not able to see the truth with the clarity I once had. It’s like a flu, I suspect, and until I get myself back into a normal routine and find peace again, I am going to have be cautious.
I just never knew that our emotional well being could affect our judgment for such a duration of time. I understood minutes, hours and even days, but never weeks. This is the first upheaval in my life since I started blogging over four and a half years ago, and I am astounded at how it has impacted my clarity.
Where I used to be able to sit down and identify a truth teller in seconds to minutes, now I can’t. Sometimes I can’t do it for days. Other times, my clarity returns and I feel it is back, only to find the next day, it left again. It’s like a flu, that must run its course, and so I patiently wait.
I promise to only write when I have moments of clarity, but if I don’t respond to a request in a timely manner, you’ll know why–at least for the time being. My emotions aren’t settled back into place and they are still affecting my clarity. After all, I am human: Very human.
The Face of Fear
Here is an interesting article for you on facial expressions and fear.
Face of fear: how a terrified expression could keep you alive
Thanks, Chris, for the link!
Confession of an Admitted Liar
A reader left an interesting comment yesterday on my blog post titled Pathological Liars. I thought I would share it with you.
I will be comlpetely honest (for once). I am a liar. A Pathological liar.Some of you out there asume that we are scum and that we are evil, and that is a little too harsh to say. You must understand, when it says we have no morals…WE CANT. I really do wish that I could feel guilt, so that I might stop lying so much. I don’t. I never have felt guilty for anything that I have done, I dont think that I ever will.Read more
Apperently, some people have it so bad that they don’t feel other emotions as well. Which makes since, saying that me and my friend (yet another liar, there are a lot of us you know) did not cry at our friend’s funeral. We lack the emotions for us to properly restrain ourselves from lying to ones we love. Emotionally though, we can feel pain. Don’t think that there are some pathological liars out there that feel horrible when they hear the comments that you are writing about them. (I for one think that its funny, and i dont really care) And yes, I belive that I will probably burn in hell for this. But until then, I shall be smiling my evil little grin and crying my fake tears…lying my way easily through life. You think that it is a bad thing to be a liar. I find it wonderful. Things are so easy for me. I manipulate people to think certain things of me, others, and situations. It has been 10 years in this town, no one has ever guessed that I am lying. (most pathological liars have good enough memories to remember what they told to whom) And Honestly, I hope that there are not too many people like me. I am sinful, mean, cold hearted, maybe even souless, and I dont care at all. (I have tried therapy, but i ended up lying to the therapist…so yeah that didnt work out too well). Signed, Liar Liar
What do you think of this?