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Originally Posted by MarsVolta
This faking of personality is what made me so great at customer service and management later in life. I can fake whatever I need to. It was easier to fake that your personality, then go through hours of re-programming and mental/physical abuse for not faking it.
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Wow! Thanks MarsVolta, that was honest and true. From a naturalistic viewpoint the reasons we humans have done so well is that we have perfected deception, faking our emotions, and manipulation. The upside of that is that some have become equally good at detecting deception, fakery, and being manipulated. There is a fascinating book called the Peace Child where a tribe's highest honor went to those who could best deceive their enemies. God dropped a missionary into that culture who struggled to communicate the gospel because they exhalted Judas for being able to deceive and have Jesus killed. But, he found out about and used their culture's peace child.
One of my charismatic friends has the gift of prophecy, he doesn't know this but I have the gift of discernment that allows me to detect when a prophet is full of bull dukey!
Our Lord complemented a man for having no guile, and urged us to be wise as serpents but harmless as doves. We are urged to speak the truth in love. Even though we are deceptive by nature may we learn to be little Christ's in our interaction with religeous Pharisees and self-acknowleged sinners.