I love a good dilemma, we have this thing in the Netherlands called Dilemmas on Tuesday where every week you have to choose between two impossible dilemmas. And this week we have one in the Weekend Experiences community! The question would be to lose the ability to lie forever or to believe everything you are ever told. My, speak about a conundrum!
The Issues Here
Now each of these statements comes with their own challenges. To start with losing the ability to lie, it would be hard not to be able to do any white lies! I would like to say lying is not a habit of mine, but that would be, well... lying!
Now believe it or not but my job actually comes with quite some white lies. I am a teacher and also a tutor in high school.
Here you see me and my tutor kids on a field trip in Germany. The thing is tutoring kids also means you are not always completely honest with them. Teenagers can be sensitive to what others think of them and it doesn't always help to tell them the raw truth. I often have kids with really bad grades ask me if they can still fix it. I always say yes, because they need that kind of motivation and they need to feel someone is in their corner. The reality is that I often feel very differently about it.
Now the problem with believing everything you hear also seems obvious: there is so much nonsense out there in the world! You would have to get off the internet really in order to make this work. Otherwise you would be convinced of all the conspiracy theories and nonsense everywhere! Besides that my partner also loves to make jokes and be sarcastic so I would constantly be confused in my own house!
My Choice
Well dilemmas are all about choosing, so here we go. I would choose to lose my ability to lie. Why? There are two reasons really:
First of all as some of you may know I am currently pregnant (very pregnant in fact, my due date was 2 days ago) and it seems a good as time as any to try not to lie. Now is a good time to start a good habit I guess. I would probably be viewed as the rudest person ever when not being able to lie anymore and I am sure not everyone will be happy with me but it is better than the alternative.
Secondly, believing everything you are told would simply be horrible. You would constantly change your mind, you would have to get off the internet and you would start to believe in some super outlandish things! Not even to mention that all sarcasm would be lost on you... No thank you!
Which would you choose in this dilemma? I am very curious to hear!
first of all congratulations 💐 for your baby hehe those days of delay sure are eternal, but don't worry, he knows his moment hehe!!!
on the other hand i would also choose to lose the ability to lie, believing in everything they tell me is certainly not an option.
Hi. You're absolutely right, I can't imagine believing everything I hear or see on the internet, it would drive me crazy.
I would feel sorry for the students, although there are ways to tell the truth without sounding so tragic.
Yeah you would have to find a way to be honest but not brutally honest to the kids!
Moments away from having a baby and here you are posting for the #weekend-engagement topics...talk about dedication! 😋
I think I'd choose to lose my ability to lie as well, although I believe it would make for an interesting life. There's a Jim Carrey movie about that actually, called Liar Liar, just a comedy movie but it raises some interesting things considering he loses his ability to lie.
Life would be interesting for sure. Brutal honesty could be problematic in certain situations. 😁
Thanks! I love liar liar, such a good movie. I think you would learn to be very diplomatic in your answers if you were no longer allowed to lie...
Oh yeah, for sure, diplomacy would be required as I think it could lead to some difficulties. That movie certainly demonstrated how brutal truth and total honesty would actually cause a lot of mayhem. I guess we're all our there filtering or amending the truth sometimes, even if it's to be kind to someone.
First of all, congratulations!
I am with you. I would rather not be able to lie than to believe everything I hear. Even the little white lies I could live without. However having to live with believing everything you are told would literally drive you crazy.
Best wishes to you and the little one.
Without knowing your choice, I also approached this topic as a dilemma.
What you say here confirms to me that there can be no other choice, that it was an easy choice to make!
I wish you an easy birth and a healthy baby!