WHAT? ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT I DON’T HAVE AN OPEN MIND?
BTW, in my perspective, accepting or rejecting different opinions/perspectives is one thing: people are in the right of doing one or the other, although a reasonable way of living is at least trying to understand those perspectives, even if in the end they reject it !
BUT, distorting words or ideas to create an unreal narrative is another thing That “are you calling me a liar” expession seems to fall in this “box”
Without having a transcript of a recent example of such a conversation turning confrontational, I certainly wouldn't be able to judge whether the other person was justified or not in asking such questions!
It's certainly possible that the other person feels the very same way with the same question(s) and concern(s), possibly even posting a similar thread elsewhere.
Maybe it's just a poor choice of words.To me lying involves some intent either to deceive or obfuscate.
Clearly people dislike being told they might be wrong. Some more than others.
In this highly polarized world, we're living in it's probably best to do what Clint Eastwood so eloquently suggested before it all blows up in our faces .
Wait till you meet internet trolls. Just take everything with a grain of sand and try to have fun.
Would you believe I’ve always used alias that I change periodically whilst online. Does that count as a lie? Why does every site what my name, mobile number, date of birth, email? Life is a lot more simple if you are just a nobody online. But I digress.
“And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Google: for we are many.”
Google vs. Googol
The verb google and the noun googol are commonly confused because they have similar pronunciations. Google is the word that is more common to us now, and so it is sometimes mistakenly used as a noun to refer to the number 10100. That number is a googol, so named by Milton Sirotta, the nephew of the American mathematician Edward Kasner, who was working with large numbers like 10100. Google, on the other hand, is the name of a search engine as well as a verb that refers to searching the Internet using the Google search engine. (The search engine’s name was inspired by the number: the founders of Google chose the name to reflect their mission “to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.”) You can remember that the number is spelled googol by remembering that a googol has lots of o’s.