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What flattering. Every time I see a comment like that, I know what’s coming next. You got it right, a string of links to sites participating in advertising through Socially Proactive AntiMatter.

But the fact is, there’s nothing to it. But is it just spammers that do it?

On June 7, 1996 the following headline appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, “What a tangled web we weave; we ALL practice to deceive.” The article beneath said that 91% of Americans confess that they regularly don’t tell the truth. And a full 20% admitted that they can’t get through the day without telling conscious, premeditated white lies. The report suggests that, “...as a society, we have moved very far away from the age when a man’s word was his bond….to a society in which people are more accepting than ever before of exaggerations, falsifications, fabrications, misstatements, misrepresentations, gloss-overs, quibbles, concoctions, equivocations, shuffles, prevarications, trims and truth colored and varnished.”

HT: Redland Baptist

You know, there was a time when each man was held to his word. Your word was as good as your signature. Now, even a signature may not mean anything. Where has “My Word of Honor” gone?

Be on your guard, you’re likely to get lied to many times today, the media, the corporations, the advertising companies, you can’t escape it. Face it with a critical eye. Let’s not become part of the society that is “more accepting than ever before of exaggerations, falsifications, fabrications, misstatements, misrepresentations, gloss-overs, quibbles, concoctions, equivocations, shuffles, prevarications, trims and truth colored and varnished.”