Question of the Day | 03/26/2008 7:35 am

What is the biggest lie you have ever believed?

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And another thing! Did any of you seriously believe that there actually WERE weapons of mass destruction or that the people of Iraq would welcome us with open arms? Those were big lies to be sure, but I never believed them, not even close.

By Kitty Webb on 03/30/2008 7:22 am

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No, I didn’t believe it, but many did and that is why I think it is the biggest, most criminal, lie ever told and posted it here.

By maria sudduth on 03/31/2008 11:43 am

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Kudos, Kitty, on the WMD bunk! I never believed that crap either! Now, if only we’d had the power at that time to make the important decisions!!!!! Biggest lie was finding out how much of a philanderer my dad was after I was a grownup. I had no idea! Also, I was totally taken in by “The Blair Witch Project” the first time I saw it. I know, how stupid!

By gaia cochran on 03/30/2008 9:03 am

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let me know if brad isn’t welcome-i’ll leave as well what ever happened to good manners to say nothing of decency

By ann dillon on 03/30/2008 12:21 pm

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That my father has never cared about anyone but himself. Completely, totally, self-absorbed. Thinks only about himself at all times. Doesn’t even hear people when they speak. Resents when the grandchildren come over and disrupt his routine of watching endless hours of MSNBC. And like Gaia when I was a grown-up, finding out that my father routinely cheated on my mother. And worse, that he was only sorry that he got caught.

By Katie Trainor on 03/30/2008 6:47 pm

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The lies of omission.

By E Stanley on 03/31/2008 3:20 pm

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Its realy sad that one lie can cause soo much damage. They went in because of “WMD” which obviously never existed to retaliate for what which ever terrorist chapter flew there planes into OUR Twin Towers. Now there are as many soldiers as there was people who died on Sept 11. Wheres the redemption? Wheres the peace for the families of that most horrible day, it will never come until those men and women come home!!!! Enough is enough, how bout we take of our own problems for once and stop fixing everyone else’s. I sure dont see ne iraqis here rebuilding the freedom tower !!!!!! Im shutting up now too much to say……….

By Shannon Cavallaro on 04/01/2008 9:46 am

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That my parents love me and want me in their life. I fell for it for the first 45 years of my life, that was 2 years ago.

By Melanie on 04/01/2008 10:45 am

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Saddam Hussein had WMD!

By Terre Sadler on 04/06/2008 2:35 pm

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“Even though we divorce, one day we’ll get back together again - you’ll see!”. He’s now married to a girl 26 years his junior! He believed his own lies.

By Victoria Fielding on 04/07/2008 3:48 pm

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I don’t believe lies. We may accept them but I do not think we truly “believe” them. I believe only truth and we recognize truth when we see it and we KNOW it is truth when we see it - no nagging doubt that trails after it like lies create.

By Kay Sara on 04/08/2008 2:36 pm

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I have been able to forgive myself for believing as Suzanne seems when she says,”I do not think we truly ‘believe’ them” because lies create nagging doubt. I used to believe that I would never believe a lie was true. However, I found out that even I could be deceived. I discovered that total deception is possible. Even though I was self reliant and believed careful preparation protected me from liars, a deceptive person totally fractured my sense of certainty. The realization that I had somehow made myself vulnerable by trying my best to protect myself was extremely difficult to accept. I no longer blame myself for having once trusted. After all, that is why blame is placed on the liar.—-Oops! Maybe that brings to mind another lie I used to believe. The lie that I really should have known better.-somehow making it my fault.

By grand achiever on 04/09/2008 12:35 am

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grand achiever, I am sorry you were deceived. I truly hate deception and nothing will irritate me quicker than someone being so arrogant as to think they can get away with BS’ing me. I just have to call ‘em on it. Didn’t you have any gut feeling that things were not right? I am not blaming you- by no means. I just wonder how often people want so badly for something they ignore the red flags.

By Kay Sara on 04/10/2008 12:58 pm

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I believed that spaghetti grows on trees. When I was a child, I saw a humor film on television showing women on hillsides with baskets harvesting spaghetti. My father saw it too. After that, the conversation about how spaghetti is made came up at the dinner table. I professed to know since I saw it on television. My dad backed me up because he saw it too, although I’m sure he knew the truth. Many years later, after he died, I happily remembered his support although the rest of the family thought we were both nuts at the time. I think my gullibility ended with the assassination of President John F Kennedy.

By Swimming Lee on 04/09/2008 12:14 am

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The words: “I love you, it’ll never happen again.” from my (ex)husband, who beat me 2 or 3 times a week, starting the first week, while still out of town on our honeymoon. This from a man who did not drink. It took me years to wise up.

By pat c on 04/09/2008 12:22 am