Theologians like Thomas R. Kopfensteiner maintain that the more we sin, the more inclined we are to sin and the more difficult it is not to sin. Now, scientists have discovered neurological evidence to support that theologian observation. A study by a team of researchers discovered a biological mechanism in our brain, specifically in the […]

via Lying is a slippery slope: our brains become desensitized with repeated lying — Fellowship of the Minds

Reblogged on kommonsentsjane/blogkommonsents.

Yes, I have known people who play games with the truth.  An example is –  they will hear or be told a fact – enhance it and then turn it around, manipulate it, and call it the truth.  In other words the story is told in their version.  It is called “enhanced vision.”  Could it be their brains actually received the words and then turned the words in a different order than they were presented?  That was the story I was told.  This way you can always blame the end result on  your own brain.  Why – that was what I heard.

The only problem is you have to remember what you lied about; but, you don’t have to remember the truth.

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