Thank God for lies!

Whether you are aware of it or not, conscience screams when you are about to lie. When you go back to the first lie you made--if you remember it--, it took quite an effort to negotiate your conscience to perform your act of lying--maybe you already have conveniently forgotten about this. However, as you kept lying the second one, the third one... it got easier and easier to negotiate your conscience eventually to the point that it became very natural and you don't feel any guilty anymore; you don't even realize that you are lying! --now lying has become part of you--your lifestyle and culture.

However, there was always a reason why you had to lie:
* you needed to justify your deed or thought, which could include hate or murder
* you needed to satisfy certain desire for which your conscience would oppose, which could include self-centered sexual desire
* you needed to gain something illegally, which includes money or position/power or human beings!
* you needed to defend yourself so that you could avoid getting hurt
* you needed to silence your conscience

Anyway, whatever the reasons are, lying is lying and it has a power and consequence. Sadly this lying seems to have become part of the culture of current human beings. Sometimes you may need to be critical to what's happening around you, always trying to examine if any lying is involved or not. Ask, "Can I genuinely say this?" "Can I genuinely believe what I heard?" "Am I really being honest to my conscience?" etc. Anyway, eventually, it is you, and not somebody else who is to face the consequence. Don't let anyone fool you!