Comments on: Lying

By: white pebble

white pebble — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:23:26 +0000

Words of One Syllable Dept.

gapingvoid: Lying
You lie for a living.
You’re not a bad person, not really, but telling the truth at your current company tends to get people fired.
And you can’t afford to be fired. You’re thirty seven, you’ve got three kids, …

By: shannonsays.com

shannonsays.com — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 08:27:04 +0000

Fabricating the Facts

Earlier in the year I asked

By: David Mac

David Mac — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:48:01 +0000

That’s more like it Hugh!!!! Happy New Year.

By: dk

dk — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:31:42 +0000

i ca't remember the last lie i told... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393310728/104-6824411-5015930?v=glance

By: Rose

Rose — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:25:34 +0000

By definition, Truth that is situational isn’t Truth, it’s rationalization.
Jesus was a copy writer He spoke in allegories and symbols and grand ideals, not in rote “facts” or recountings of step-by-step actions or the listing of material features. He was a copywriter, but He still spoke Truth, just as Hugh is trying to speak Truth through little comics on the back of business cards. Great copy writers ONLY speak in Truth. If you can’t speak that way, then that’s the fault of your own ignorance and reflects the shallow state of your own mind and soul, not lack in your clients’ products.

By: tonygoodson

tonygoodson — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:26:31 +0000

Lying, Exagerating, Economy with the Truth

Do you lie?

By: melissa

melissa — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:33:24 +0000

Couldn’t do it — lie for my job: would rather starve.
How can these people feel who have made lying their God? how sad for society that people are feeling this and are imprisoned by this ‘having to lie burden’!
Let’s leave these lies behind and move on to shining truths that in the end will provide a far better mental health to us all.

By: Bret

Bret — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 05:33:18 +0000

I scrolled down a little bit on the sight. This quotation is the best advice I’ve read on the internet:
Your plan for getting your work out there has to be as original as the actual work, perhaps even more so. The work has to create a totally new market. There’s no point trying to do the same thing as 250,000 other young hopefuls, waiting for a miracle. All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one.

By: Circlesquare

Circlesquare — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 05:17:27 +0000

Truth is Context plus Perception. It depends on the situation and the person recognising it and is therefore continuously variable.
Reality is only what is measurable and therefore depends on the instrument and system of units you use. It still needs interpretation.
I do know what you mean, though. Well, actually, no I don’t.

By: Roman

Roman — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 05:14:32 +0000

Whoa ! Brilliant.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 02:57:50 +0000

Whoa. Happy f**king holidays, eh?
You’re damned right this is about more than the world of advertising–or work, or anything else. Living in the truth requires a level of stamina most people aren’t prepared to muster, not to mention resourcefulness or even awareness: we do a pretty rotten job of raising our kids to recognize the truth, much less to live in it.
Of course, my truth is not your truth, which is part of the problem. In the case you illustrated, our Man in Advertising is actually living his truth, that truth being the lie that these things are all still worth working for, that they’re at all responsible for his happiness.
And Roman, while you’re right about having a choice, I’m mighty skeptical about that not/worthwhile list. There is no job or not-job with more or less “truth”; there is only the truth inherent in awareness. And *that*, my friend, is where the work comes in.

By: Roman

Roman — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:53:55 +0000

Dare! Find another job where you think there is more truth.
Go log trees, do anything worthwhile.
You have the choice because it’s YOUR life.

By: Aleah

Aleah — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:23:46 +0000

I think you’ve been watching one too many episodes of It’s a Wonderful Life (and grasping the less than saturnine message Capra intended to convey).
When you define yourself and sense of purpose by an outside force, you SHOULD meet reality — that you are only as important as you want to be ( i.e. self-definition ). All acts should contribute to cultivating happiness, not validation.
Even philanthropic acts in relation to self are only as good as they make you feel. People are afraid of the concept that maybe they are just here, another one of thousands upon thousands of living organisms — Better make the best of it.

By: larry borsato

larry borsato — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:02:40 +0000

Ouch.

Everyone worries about losing their job; not being able to find another one. But life can’t be this bad.…

By: Andreas Duess

Andreas Duess — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:28:57 +0000

That was one of the main reasons for starting my own company. When we started out we made the decision that we would not lie to our customers, whatever happened.
That, and not having to answer to anybody but myself and my partner, is making me less money than I used to make but is also keeping me sane, happy and married.