Politeness and Other Lies

I was born telepathic like many or most children. However, most western societies train this out of children because you can't lie to children that are telepathic because they can tell you are lying. So, parents often train their kids to not accept telepathy as a way for them to accept the lies of most societies.

I was lucky in that I had my mother's family which was Celtic Scottish by tradition. In their tradition being Fae or telepathic and gifted had a very long tradition of thousands of years. In the case of my mother's family this Celtic Tradition had blended with Christianity in the form of Mystic Christianity. So I was raised to accept that I always knew what people were thinking. However, I was always taught to go along with people even if they lied with their words as a part of everyday survival in society. I learned that you mostly watched what people did because most of the time what they said didn't really mean much except in very few cases. So, even if people were lying to you, you still pretended to believe the lies because it was to your advantage unless this person was trying to harm you in some way. So, learning to see who is lying and who is not is how one survives to adulthood and old age. If you just blindly believe everything everyone says to you you will soon be either crazy or dead before your time.

So, from both my father and my mother I learned to not believe anything anyone told me unless it was my parents or grandparents or a close relative. I only pretended to believe what everyone else told me because this was how society functioned. So, by age 15 it dawned on me that society functioned by the half lies people told each other every day and that without those lies civilization itself would be doomed.

Let me illustrate some one comes up to you and says, "How are you today?" and you think, "Oh. you are being polite. How nice! I guess I have to be polite too." and then you say, "I'm fine. How are you?" And then the conversation goes on from there.

But can you also imagine in olden times when everyone carried a sword, a knife or a gun because civilization just wasn't what it is today in the western world? So, you have your sword by your side and your bow or rifle hanging from your horse and someone says, "How are you doin' stranger?" and you think, "maybe they are safe enough to talk to so I don't have to wound or kill them" so you say, "I'm okay? how about you?" And either you are able to talk or you eventually kill each other or you trade some items in barter. This is basically the way communication started verbally at least before cultural norms became as  pronounced as they are today.

So then, we all recognize that politeness and diplomacy is at its very best white lies, but to not recognize that politeness or being politically correct is basically white lies is to be a total fool. So, be polite and diplomatic so you can survive in the real world. But remember, there is a consequence for living what I would call in a "white lie" world.