“And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.”
“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.
sure it's probably just a coincidence
I never argue. I just explain why I’m right.
„The one who speaks the truth needs a fast horse.“ (Chinese proverb)
I heard this on TV in reference to George Santos:
How much do you have to lie to be known as "the lying congressman"?
This is just one example for a straw man argument. The person using it is really saying: “I don’t care for your opinion.”
Assuming it’s a discussion with reasonable people (not hardcore right-wingers or anti-science types) …. It depends how you phrase the discussion. Nobody likes to be told they’re wrong. I’ll often lead the sentence with “in my mind….”, Or “for me…” or “do you not think XYZ….?” which takes the conflict out of the conversation.
Not a liar, just alternative facts.
Σήμερα είμαι πολύ χαρούμενος γιατί σε αγαπώ
Smilin’ faces sometimes tell lies. 
Ha! That actually describes perfectly the sort of reasoning that leads to arguments here. We have a very clear “no arguing” rule, but when requested to stop arguing the user invariably responds verbatim with that line from the T-shirt. And also: “I admit I was arguing, but the other user was wrong and I need to clear up the facts!” As far as the context of this forum goes I don’t care who or what is right or wrong, I simply don’t want to have to deal with arguments.
And going to back to Boaz’s point, yeah, it smacks of immaturity to recur to the “liar” label by default any time someone doesn’t agree with you or corrects you or you correct them. We would all benefit from a bit more humility and not always pontificating in absolute terms.
I’ve had some interesting conversations with very excitable people.
When confronted with “are you calling me a liar?”
I always respond…
“I don’t know you well enough to call you that, but I will say that we get our facts from different places.”
Maybe we all need to take a national refresher course on civility.
I do not do well with people who know it all and try to impose their will on me.
Sometimes It brings out my Character defects and I’m not always good at controlling them. I’m very direct and tell it like it is. Not always a good thing. With that said, I never called anybody a liar!
There’s an easier softer way.
Simple suggestions instead of the Iron Fist.
NOTHING is Black or White…there is Gray in between.
Some parts were edited to make me look bad. 
Where is the “grey” anymore? Extremism is all the rage.
It’s on top of my head and in my winter time Husky walking beard! :sunglasses:
Me too, what’s left.
I’m guessing I’m in the top 10% as far as oldest people on here. I’ll be 63 in beginning of June.
Lunch time! I get up at 4:00 a.m. 4:30 at the latest. So lunch time comes a little earlier than the normal folk!
Things seem to be quite black and white lately.
Something is either the truth or a lie.
Half truths are lies too, they mislead more than blatant lies i.m.o.
Not that many people are liars or deceivers, but many people just believe and repeat what they hear, whether it is true, half true or untrue.
Our worldviews are based on what we’re convinced of, so we don’t like it when that is challenged or scrutinized.
Some people flip their lids when challenged, some will engage in discussion.
But we’re living in lid flipping times…
Yep, same here.
Ugh, unfortunately so true.
Stretching the truth counts as a lie?. I consider it embellishment.