How do you discern truths from lies?

Question

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Have a great day to all!

Answer 1

I think one would have to consider the source and what he is saying.

If you have an authority figure that says that you wont get prosecuted for telling the truth don't believe it. same thing with a god that plans to torture the majority of people eternally with the exception of those that believe as you do. such a god will have no reason not to double cross his followers to get whatever pleasure he is getting from tormenting everybody else.

One must always assume that the powerful are lying to manipulate the powerless  

Answer 2

Lies will contradict some aspect of reality.  Truths are a close match to or metaphor of reality.

Answer 3

intuition...

Answer 4

For some propositions never, the lie is never detected, for others if and when a contradiction avails its self to you and you question the validity of its ante-pod. After that your powers of deduction/induction are demanded of you. 'the game is a foot' Sherlock Holmes finds a foot print and seeks the foot responsible.

Answer 5

If the issue is important enough, demand proof. If the lie doesn't lend itself to examination by this approach, ask for the details. Ask for more details every other day or so. Very few liars can keep all the details straight, and then you can catch them in contradictions.

One long term method is an austerity from Yoga - this is to never lie yourself, not even for the smallest or biggest reason. This will develop in you the power of hearing the truth.

Answer 6

Truth cannot be spoken, truth is beyond space-time language - even though truth can be described as true it is not truth. Truth is the effect of constant discovery as seeing sensing now-moment-continuum out there, as the out-there, taking place as brain blind cell activity. This is not to deny a human organism 'telling the truth' but his must always be an after effect of moments been as so-called past.  

Answer 7

Look at all the other variable surrounding the words and actions of the statements in question the truth can only be hidden for so long it can never not come out.  A lie can never grow old.......................You can sweep things under the carpets but in the end as you walk upon them and observes stuff starts coming out you just have to be extremely aware and your gut feelings intuitions and the actions of character all come out to play :))

Answer 8

Occam's Razor.

The simplest complete explanation is most likely true.

There is usually an elegant simplicity to the truth.  It is a 'sum to zero' state where the flow of objects & events fall into logical array based on natural law.

You watch the Energy, because energy doesn't lie.

Answer 9

I really don't know because the truth of today can be the big lie of tomorrow.

Lie is the distortion of the truth.

Answer 10

by utilizing the 5 senses

Answer 11

You don't. No matter how real something may appear, appearances are deceiving. People used their senses to perceive that the Earth was flat. Those senses proved to be wrong.

What seems to work better is to acknowledge that something may be true at this moment, but in time, you may learn more information that disproves that truth.

Truth is fluid.

It was true that humans were Earthbound. It is now true that humans travel into space.

Answer 12

If all else fails...

Only time will tell.

Answer 13

look for body language, ask more questions, ask other people.

If that fails, get someone drunk ;)

Answer 14

I just close my eyes,,,and let me feel,,,,

:)

thanks,,BYE

Answer 15

Accept everything is a lie.  Only believe something when you have positive proof; and the more the better.  And for heaven's sake, don't believe anything that you learn from the mass media; until it is officially denied that is, then you know that what was initially claimed was correct.  I am not a cynic, I have seen first hand how television reports are twisted completely to misinform the entire population.  Conspiracy theories would be better titled: "What really happened"  

Answer 16

you can tell they are lying because their lips are moving,just kidding usually i look at who is talking and what is their motive for saying anything at all

Answer 17

The Holy Spirit

Answer 18

I don't - I know that I obfuscate for myself and find myself out later  by understanding a new reality and that the muddying of the waters of clarity is due to my limitations to take on board frightening thoughts; so I am only as capable of congruence as my fear levels dictate.

I can understand that it is the same for others.

I don't try to discern but treat everything as another persons truth in so far as they know it at this moment.

I don't need to know if statements are 'lies' or 'truths' as I wouldn't put my safety into anybody else's version of reality.

Anyone may believe or think anything they wish, which gets them through the night, and it will never upset my hard won capacity to stay in 'not knowing'

Answer 19

If someone is telling you something, you will be able to detect if they are lying by watching their eyes.  If you ask a person a question and they look downwards, this means they are about to tell you a lie.

What people normally do is look upwards to the right to indicate they are thinking before speaking.

Also when a person is asked a direct question and the eyes look down quickly and there is a flicker of the lower eye lid, this too indicates that a lie is about to be told.

Of course none of the above helps when we read something in a book - how do we know if what we read is the truth?  We don't.

You can avoid some pitfalls when researching a subject by avoiding such as Wikipaedia -which is often full of waffle put there by the supporters of this or that fantasy theory.  So beware of that.

Instead, go for reputable sources, such as university libraries and respected and knowledgeable encyclopedia such as Britannica etc.

As you can see from this Google search link, the world is full of babble.  We have freedom of speech, thus, much of what is said is bound to be waffle at best and downright lies at worst.  The trick is learning how to steer through the minefield.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=na...

Answer 20

years ago I ignored my intutiion. I started noticing it more when I was going through a hard situation with a family member who was lying to me. I used my mind & ignored by gut. I noticed when I did things & ended up sorry that I actually knew I shouldn't have let him take my care or my credit card. I thought being a nice person & trusting would always bring me good results. I learned the hard way that my intuition was wiser than the beliefs I had.....so I started paying attention. I would get a feeling to stop at the store even though I wanted to go home. I would stop & meet up with someone who was important for me to meet....I learned to not trust everyone except myself....My husband started a business & we would put out money for supplies meaning to get paid back from the person he was woking for. We felt uncomfortable with some people & they ended up being the people who had no intentions of paying us back... Now we have learned to structure things so we don't get ripped off but if we get a bad feelling about someone we will not work for them. We don't attract this kinds of customers anymore. ..I am so tuned into my intuition now that it guides my whole life...I can tell if somoene is lying or some kind of crook no matter who they are. I see people in the political section who are making decisions & they are so out of touch but I can't tell them to trust their intution. They don't even know how at this point but I can tell all kinds of things that happen.It is like I read life like someone else might read a book.

Answer 21

Sometimes, it is possible to tell lies truthfully, i.e. according to the best of a knowledge, information and belief. Our personal, and even collective, knowledge, information and beliefs all could be faulty. It is possible for us to be sincere hypocrites, i.e. to be living a lie but believing it to be truth.

Sometimes, it also is possible for us to be true but to be unaware and unappreciative of the fact. I have often seen goodness going to waste because that good could not believe well enough that they were good. Our personal wealth, knowledge, fairness and beauty are gifts of life. They could all go to waste I we did not realised their worth. Our true should empower us firs, as what use is the strength of a man if he has no sense.

We can falter even when we are along the right paths, even when we have right knowledge, correct information and beliefs based upon principles of truth. We can deviate by temptations, fear and ignorance from the path that we understand as right. This is because, first of all, our knowledge is never complete, neither the information complete or believes absolutely strong. We can falter only to learn that we have and thereupon seek ways to mend our ways, i.e. ways of justice and truth.

Then this is general that individual interpretations and understanding of truth remain matters of dispute among different people. I think in general we are not very unreliable judge of truth. We have to contend for, advocate, constantly testify our opinions and justify our ways what we believe are true.

Then we manage well only in our close circles where we are mutually understood. There we set standards for right and wrong, and upon the bases of that ascertain what is good or bad, true of false.

But there cannot be anything right or wrong no people who are either right or wrong. What I mean to say is that there can be no other way for a truth or a lie to be known, , for it exist but in the ways of human life, and there is no other way to see truth but through people who accommodates truthfulness. It is character of such people that enables us to determine if what they say is true or false.

It is also possible for people to true but have no knowledge of their truthfulness. This is the instance devoid of faith and trust in being. What purpose would a treasure buried under that house of a poor man will serve if he remains ignorance of that fact. Then I think goodness can also go to waste it not valued, realised and put in some good use.

Answer 22

First you must remove yourself from judgment. Sometimes people are simply mistaken and honestly believe what they say, maybe even you or I. By looking for true and false you can be in a more neutral position.  

Answer 23

Transcending the mind/ego, which is incapable of telling truth from falsehood.  This is most commonly exhibited in the Eastern traditions of meditation, contemplation, prayer and devotional service.

Another way is to become proficient at kinesiology and muscle testing.  It is a known fact that body language indicates what is unspoken or used to discern truth from a lie.  Muscle testing with the kinesiology test tests the muscle response in the presence of positive or negative stimuli, or truth and non-truth.  The muscle will respond weak to falsehood and that which doesn't support life and strong to the contrary independent of personal belief

Answer 24

If we are tuthful we can discern easily truth from lies.

Answer 25

With wisdom. Truth will sing to the part of us that is real in some way. Each may feel it differently, but on some level it will register. Willingness to let go of hearing from the point of view that fills our personal agenda or belief system is necessary. We are masters at deceiving ourselves with lies that fill our ego's agenda.  Being able to have clarity in this world is no easy task but it can be done & must be done. So, if I let go of trying to prove I am right, release my personal agendas, recognize I don't know, I then have a better chance at being open to Truth when it presents itself. BTW, Truth is always presenting itself, we just refuse to see it.

Blessings!

Answer 26

Well... only the facts said it...

Because the words... its only this...: words...

Answer 27

   Good Q, thanks.

Truth, like a bouyant thing, always rises to the surface of a pond. A lie is the stone that sinks, often dragging us to drowning with it.

That thought doesn't say that Truth sets us free, or won't have painful effects, but it sure means  we can stop lying.

A lie is like trying to dig a hole in dry sand. The "job" can hardly be completed, as the walls of the hole, keep falling back in on the "digger", creating more effort, and even more lies to compound.

A.F.

Answer 28

If you are interested in knowing the truth you will find ways and means of  discerning truth

Answer 29

Very difficult!!!

Some lies are so clothed that they seem even better than the truth.  Those of credulous nature trust everyone,  but eventually truth emerges in good time from behind the veils of lies.

To discern truths from lies one needs knowledge and experience beside basic intellect...  

Answer 30

Sometimes it's all in asking the right questions... other times, this is not enough and you have to trust blind instinct, or get stung.

Answer 31

Use the heart as your guide and not your mind.  You mind will probably lie because it naturally always wants something but the heart is honest and tells you how you actually feel and think about someone.