10/5 Lies

There are 3 types of lies.

1) Bad Lies

These are probably the only ones people understand. It's when you say someone you don't want to go tonight because you feel a little sick. So it's when you don't want to tell the truth and feel like you should lie instead. But in doing so, you know this lie is "bad". Or maybe you think it's the "right thing to do" in the circumstances. But anyway, I'm just calling them Bad Lies no matter how you perceive their morality.

2) "Unconscious" Lies

These are lies you thought were not lies. For example... actually, I can't find any example. What I was trying to explain are definitely beliefs.

3) Beliefs

Well you know by now what beliefs are. "I believe in General Relativity." Which is a lie because you don't really believe in it but just say you do to be part of a group (or maybe the classical argument "to find answers to my questions"). Or you could say "I don't 'believe' in General Relativity because it was proven that it was true." Which in some ways could be true, but in others could be just another belief (in the scientific method for example, or in whatever the scientists say is true). But my explanations are too close to pure nihilism, which wouldn't believe in the world we live in, so I will sort of go back to what we perceive as reality (not because it is truer, but because it is what I am interested in).

Anyway, I probably had more to say about all of this, but I got interrupted by Khanh, and now I don't know what I was talking about anymore, so let's just leave it aside a little while :)