Thoughts Outside the Box: Relationship Killers #4: Lying...

Friday, August 19, 2011

Relationship Killers #4: Lying...

That lying is wrong is virtually a universally accepted tenent, and yet it is violated by virtually everyone. Little white lies, lies of ommission, lies about our past, lies to cover actions, lies to try to avoid trouble- no matter what the form a lie is a lie. It is an untruth, and it erodes the very foundation of any relationship. For truth must be part of the foundation for any relationship to be successful.

So why do we lie? The first lie was told in the Garden of Eden, when Satan first approached Eve and tempted her with the forbidden fruit. "You will be like God", he said, "if you only eat of the fruit. God forbid it because He didn't want you to be like Him". A crafty lie, and a crafty argument. After all, who wouldn't want to be like God? And that first lie destroyed a relationship, between man and God. God later restored it, but it remains in a broken state as long as we live in a broken world...

Ever since that first lie the art of lying has destroyed relationship after relationship, because you can't trust a liar, for you can never be sure they're telling you the truth. And without the inability to trust the relationship is dead, or soon will be. Our world is full of lies. Our courts, our politicians, our advertising, TV, our workplaces- we are bombarded by lies all day long. Is it no wonder people find it easier to lie than to be truthful? Lies cover up; truth reveals.

The beauty of telling the truth, and this is a lesson so few have learned, is that you don't have to remember anything when you're honest. The truth is the truth- there's nothing to remember. And yet when we lie we must remember the lie, for more often than not we end up building on it. Lie upon lie, until one day the house of lies we built comes crashing down when we stumble or get caught in one of our untruths... Lies cover up- truth reveals. To live an open and ahthentic life is one of the greatest and most rewarding challenges we face today. And yet so few are willing to step up and meet that challenge. I will, and I hope you will too.

Food for thought....

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Personality Profiling...

Carl Jung developed the theory that everyone has their own distinctive psychological type which makes up their personality type. He developed sixteen different personality types, later further developed by Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Meyers. There are four major catagories, and two sub catagories within each one. Every one falls into one of the sixteen types developed.

Personality typing is incredibly helpful in areas of growth and self-development. It also helps us understand those personality types we are best compatible with...

The four catagories are Sensing (S) or Intuition (N), Thinking (T) or Feeling (F), Judging (J) or Perceiving (P),and within each catagory we are either Introverted (I) or Extroverted (E).

The different combinations possible that all fall into are:
ESFP ESTP ISTJ ISFJ ENFP ENTP INFJ INTJ
ESTJ ENTJ ISTP INTP ESFJ ENFJ INFP ISFP

Understanding your own personality type is a real an d effective tool in self discovery, and can further help us understand those around us. To learn more about personality typing, and even take the Briggs-Meyers personality test visit www.personalitypage.com .

Personally, I am an INFJ...

IQ TEST

Your IQ Test
YOUR RESULTS =155. Genius Outstanding! Your score on the IQ test suggests you are well in the Genius intelligence range. Your score has placed you at the highest measurable levels of intellectual prowess. Ironically, intelligence research has found an unexpected tendency among the exceptionally intelligent to under-achieve, at least as far as the traditional academic and professional indicators are concerned. The smartest people seem to wind up living relatively modest and ordinary lives. Why? It may be that when you have an over-abundance of natural intelligence the ordinary elements of life can seem far beneath you as to be boring. Alternatively, this glut of intelligence can lead to mental indolence and “coasting” on one's natural abilities. Few geniuses really achieve the heights of success and achievement that we would expect the powers of genius to bring them. So, while you have achieved magnificently on this IQ test, take only so much comfort from your lofty score. Remember, it is far better to be actively striving toward success than to lie recumbently expecting it. THE MEANING OF I.Q.: I.Q. or intelligence quotient is a general assessment of your ability to think and reason. Your I.Q. score is actually an indication of how you compare in this ability with the majority of people in your age group. A rating of 100, for example, means that, as compared to the majority of other people in your age group, you have a normal rate of intelligence: Most psychologists consider those falling in the range of 95-105 as having a normal or average I.Q. There are many abilities which are not measured by I.Q. testing. For example, I.Q. does not measure musical talent, manual dexterity, or a variety of other abilities. However, I.Q. testing does give you an important indication of your ability to think, reason and solve problems. This is critical to your success in life. An individual’s overall intelligence is a difficult thing to measure in any absolute fashion. Human intelligence may be said to consist of literally hundreds of different and distinct mental abilities. And only a few of these may be measured through formal testing. Creators of IQ tests have attempted to isolate and measure only a handful of mental abilities which serve as likely predictors of achievement – namely logical reasoning, math skills, general knowledge, the ability to classify things, the ability to see analogies, and the ability to recognize patterns. Your score on this IQ test by no means reflects a complete picture of your intelligence. It does not take into consideration verbal, social or emotional intelligence, to name just a few. Nor does it measure all your intellectual potential. No IQ test can do that. FAMOUS IQ'S Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Inventor 220 Blaise Pascal, Mathematician, Philosopher 195 Isaac Newton, Mathematician 190 Voltaire, Writer 189 Gary Kasparov, Chess Grandmaster 185 Galileo Galilei, Astronomer, Physicist 183 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer 165 Charles Darwin, Naturalist, Writer 165 Albert Einstein, Physicist 160 Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft 160 Ben Franklin, Writer, Scientist, Politician 160 DALE "BUD" BRAUER 155 Abraham Lincoln,U.S. President 150 Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor 145 Hillary Clinton, Senator of New York 140 Madonna, Singer, Actress 140

Friday, August 19, 2011

Relationship Killers #4: Lying...

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