We were all taught as children that honesty is the best policy. Sometimes the truth hurts, but lying is much more harmful. So we do our best to be upfront and honest with everyone we meet, occasionally bending the truth to spare someone’s feelings. Until one day we realize just how many lies have been surrounding us our entire lives…
From misleading statements companies tell to gain their customers' trust to propaganda governments spread to keep their citizens in line, Reddit users have recently been sharing some of the biggest lies that have been told in human history. So enjoy reading through this list, pandas, and be sure to upvote the lies you’ve heard far too many times!
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> …there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! The late, the great George Carlin.
George Carlin was the reality check I needed at an impressionable age...
He spoke about the reality of the world like no one else. He was the best!
Load More Replies...disgusting just how many people believe. Brand new war over in the middle east that all stems from who has the better imaginary friend two thousand years ago.
Israel and Palestine actually doesn't stem from that at all. It's politics. Politics over who gets the land. At the core of it it doesn't have anything to do with religion at all. People can try to drag religion into it all they want, with Zionism and Jewish faith and Islam and Islamic militism, but as you keep peeling back the layers, it all comes down to politics.
Load More Replies...George Carlin was one of a kind. I have yet to find another one who talked about the stuff he did.
bill Hicks was in a similar class...both very funny people
Load More Replies...The list is actually hundreds (like, over 600!) of things He wants you to do and not do.
Depends. The important things are the 10 commandments, and for Christianity, should be the teachings of Jesus. Unfortunately, they decided to add in many books and pages from purple other than from the individual who is supposed to be the room of good, and too many seem to pick and choose from the hateful sections, rather than actually following the teachings of Jesus. Similar issues in at least a few other religions, but Christianity is what I am most experienced with. This specific post in the list is referring to the 10 commandments.
Load More Replies...Nobody with any sense believes this anymore. Religion is simply a means to control people.
Look at how many wars were started and waged all for religion. I am spiritual, but no religion for me!
If God gave man free will then why is he telling people to create different religions and get as many people to join by force?
He isn't, free will is doing that, you can't have free will and then complain about what freedom to choose creates.
Load More Replies...I miss George Carlin. I'd worship him but I know he'd laugh his butt off if I did.
And magic is evil, but this man's sons "magic" is the ONLY magic that's ok
Ah, unless you come from Iceland, in which case the place you go to if you've been bad is coooooold and really barren ; bit like Iceland really (I love Iceland btw )
yes this is a good reality check but i dont wanna criticize the belief that millions of other ppl hold because someone is gonna reply to this and get mad at me and i dont like when ppl get mad at me lol
"Faith is believing something you know damn well ain't so." - Mark Twain
Load More Replies...Um... look at any mega church.. religion is used by the powerful to control the less powerful.
Load More Replies...There's plenty of verses in the bible that refer to heaven being above earth. For example, the ascension of Jesus, Luke 24:51: "And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven."
Load More Replies...I'm a Christian and I think George Carlin is hilarious (this skit included). If your faith can't handle a joke, it's not strong enough.
Load More Replies...People can be good people without having to believe in god. We hold ourselves accountable.
Load More Replies...Vaccines cause autism. F**k those gullible idiots.
Anti-vax parents that refuse to immunise their children should be charged with murder if their child dies of a preventable disease - or if their child transmits a preventable disease to another who dies. No ifs and buts.
"I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the above Terms and Conditions."
Tax cuts for the rich will benefit everyone.
Trickle down would work if the rich weren't so super absorbent that they suck.
America stands for freedom and liberty.
I don't think there is a decade in US history where there wasn't someone somewhere being cruelly oppressed by the US or by someone heavily supported (i.e. controlled) by the US.
Just ask Florida, where schoolchildren are now fighting for the freedom to...wait for it...READ.
Your religion is the correct one. Lol the “main reason” why “most people” believe what they believe is because they were born into part of the world in which the religion is popular.
You can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.
Yes, I know several nepo kids that truly believed they had what it takes to manage companies ... as they ran well established and highly profitable family businesses into the ground. Taking countless jobs with them. Wasn't their fault of course - nothing ever is...
"Your call is important to us."
"Your call is important to us, please hold for the next available representative. The current wait time is 1 hour". Call disconnects after 45 minutes. Immediately call back..."You call is....yadda yadda yadda...the current wait time is 3 hours."
If you're a good person, good things will happen to you.
There are hot singles in my area dying to meet me.
We are a family and care about our employees.
OH MY GOD!! my sister studied odontology, she had cancer revision during her fourth year and a teacher failed her because she would miss an exam. She failed that class. Because she needed to make sure she didn't have cancer again. Then on her graduation the teachers kept saying they loved everyone and that they were a big family.
Money won't make you happy.
Money won't make you happy but it makes it a hell of a lot easier to be happy
"Yes, I will remember to cancel the subscription just before the free trial ends."
That anyone can become rich in a society that is ruled by people who need poor laborers to keep the wheels of commerce grinding.
That's just capitalism, Baebee! 😎 Just keep telling yourself that you live in a meritocracy and get back to work!
Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq: The claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was used as a justification for the 2003 invasion by the U.S. and allied forces. This turned out to be false and had a profound impact on global politics and led to significant loss of life.
So how many of you americans really knew this? Or do you all choose to stuff your head in the sand. You are the worlds bully, not savior.
Not necessarily a lie, but people have the misconception that Europeans invented slavery in the 15th century.
Slavery is something that has existed across the world, for millenia.
And there were large scale slave trade networks established by other powers, such as the Trans Saharan slave trade established by the Islamic caliphate after their conquest of North Africa.
Whoever thinks that didn't have history classes? Everyone knows slavery was present in antiquity.
"The customer is always right." I want to know who came up with that. They are wrong.
the full saying is actually the customer is always right in matters of taste
Men are better than women.
Men and women are not equal in many places. But their rights should be equal and neither gender is inferior to the other in general. Both genders have what they are better at and what they are not as good at.
I feel like the most recent one is this idea of “the American dream”, that anybody from the lowliest street sweeper can be a successful billionaire if they just work hard enough.
The older I get the more transparent that becomes as a veiled attempt to propagate capitalism by keeping the fast food workers and trash collectors of the population scurrying about working as hard as they can to serve the higher classes…It’s so obvious when you think about it for more than a few minutes, but it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that the lucky few to have actually achieved this are the exceptions, not the rule.
Don't tax millionaires more, because I could be a millionaire tomorrow.
The Banks are too Big to fail.
This makes me sick. LET THEM FAIL. No business should be free from the consequences of their bad decisions and unethical treatment of employees and customers.
“The Native Americans worked with the early settlers to create Thanksgiving”
"Capitalism isn't perfect, but it's the best system we've got." If that were true, how come we spend so much time worrying and paying people to [take out] and destabilize every democratically elected socialist government? The Military Industrial Complex is basically a money grab fueled by having to fight the right wing dictators we put into office, and making new weapons to compete with the ones that we sell to our enemies.
The problem is - people. Communism could be a brilliant system if it wasn't for people. Nasty, venal things.
That we are free. We live on a paradise of a planet that is essentially a prison. Very few are actually free.
Go be free in the woods with nothing, or be enslaved by the comforts of society.
Carrots make you see in the dark. i ate so much and turned orange for nothing.
this was world war 2 propaganda from the UK to cover for the fact we had Radar
No strings attached.
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The biggest lie of all. "Russia is a threat to America". It's taken me a long time to realise that Russia was never a threat to America. Not militarily or through communism. During the cold war, Russia expected a US first strike with a 99% loss of the Russian military, hoping that the remaining 1% was enough for token retaliation. The US military frequently and flagrantly spin doctored the figures to grab more government funding.
The Russian premiere insisting, "We will bury you" had nothing to do with the US "paranoia." Or the fact that Russia was ready to roll troops across Europe based on the outcome of a US presidential election. I won't even mention which one, because people will think I cite it for partisan purposes; if you're curious it's easy to Google.
Load More Replies...The story about George Washington and the cherry tree is a lie. They just rold that story to try to make kids not lie using a former president so kids will follow a historical figures example
The biggest lie of all. "Russia is a threat to America". It's taken me a long time to realise that Russia was never a threat to America. Not militarily or through communism. During the cold war, Russia expected a US first strike with a 99% loss of the Russian military, hoping that the remaining 1% was enough for token retaliation. The US military frequently and flagrantly spin doctored the figures to grab more government funding.
The Russian premiere insisting, "We will bury you" had nothing to do with the US "paranoia." Or the fact that Russia was ready to roll troops across Europe based on the outcome of a US presidential election. I won't even mention which one, because people will think I cite it for partisan purposes; if you're curious it's easy to Google.
Load More Replies...The story about George Washington and the cherry tree is a lie. They just rold that story to try to make kids not lie using a former president so kids will follow a historical figures example