True Lies

How good you are in psychology? Watch this clip. This clip may help you to understand your level of understanding about psychology better. This was from the show “The moment of truth” aired by FOX. It’s something like “Kaun banega crorepathi” but the difference is in the way the questions are asked and the answer you know for yourself whether it’s TRUE or FALSE. In a nutshell about the show, before the real show happens the contestant are asked some 50 odd questions and polygraphed. But the results of the Polygraph are not disclosed and during the show they were asked the same questions but getting even much more personal. As the contestant answer honestly they win cash prize and keep climbing the ladder. However, should a contestant lie in his or her answer (as determined by the polygraph) or simply refuse to answer a question after it has been asked, the game ends and the contestant loses all of the prize money accumulated.

I don’t know really is that show a real or fake one which is rehearsaled in the studio before aired. But in case it’s true or not lets continue.

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Now my thoughts, opinion, and perception on what I feel/felt from the video. First of all my stand on truth is simple. I am not Harichandra nor do I wish to be the one like that. If I say and accept the fact that “I am/was a great liar” I think that would be the greatest truth I have spoken and contradictorily if I say and feel proud of saying “I always speak truth, only truth and nothing else” that would be the greatest lie I have ever told. I go the Valluvan way when it’s about truth.

The meaning of the above thirukural is “Even a lie is TRUTH if those uttered are for good cause”. The host says at the end of the clip “Some truth are better left unsaid”. Does that mean the TRUTH which hurt must not be spoken? Whats more interesting about the show is the questions he asks are simple, straight forward and many of them are something myself and my friends asked ourself in our daily chit-chat. It ranges from “Will you tell your wife about the crush/love you had for a girl in college” to many more dirty things which I feel not appropriate to put it down here. Ya I know speaking the truth is dangerous Now what you feel? Is it so that it takes guts to speak the truth always or is it mere stupidity? If I have to start a lie meter as my day starts I am afraid about what the count would be at the end.

If its all about the guts will you accept for such a live show? I felt pathetic for Lauren Cleri. If the show is fake one, I think she has the guts not to give a damn about what the world (at least US people bcos the viewers count is 23 million) speaks after this show. If it’s real, is it the money which made her to go to that extent of speaking the truth though she says it’s not for the money she want to continue. I don’t know how true is that! Or is this the guts? Now reply the clip. Her ex-boyfriend asks “If I want to get back with you would you leave your husband?” Actually one question can be avoided by pressing the button. Her husband Frank was not ready to press the button but some of her friend did it. You know how he looked and how his reaction was if you felt what I felt. The next question from her ex-boy friend was much more daring. “Do you believe I am the man you should be married to?” Holy S!!! She says YES and that’s the truth. WOW. Very perfect question and answer in the imperfect time and place. I feel pity for Frank.

Few days back I just shared my thoughts on this so called LOVE and relation. A bit from that goes like this. “Love is just a feel hard to define and even harder to measure. At least in terms of relation what all I can say is “Whether u love and then marry or marry and then start loving it doesn’t matter. But if u can live life after that in such a way tht ur spouse never felt once in his/her lifetime that ‘why I married her/him’ until he/she dies.. There u go…” Ya there is no point in living a fake life and especially if it is marital life. Since this is my thought on marriage relation, I was just wondering should I appreciate her daring act to speak the truth or depreciate for speaking it at inappropriate place & time.

May be I should try this with my close friends. Pick 5 of my friends who know me better and make them ask me such 21 question where I have to speak the truth. Wow sounds great. Whether its TRUTH or LIE it doesn’t matter bcos sooner or latter the truth and lie I gave as answer are going to question me somewhere in some corner of life. So let me be prepared better to face it. With so much of thoughts pouring yet finishing this post incompletely….

NOTE: Whatever said/rambled above are TRUE to the best of my knowledge :-p and now tell the TRUTH how crap this post is