Chado, Luna, when I talk about lying as a way to get through life, I am not advocating dishonesty, I am talking about knowing when to pick your battles.
It's like that story of the holy man who was meditating under a tree when a starving beggar dressed in rags came running towards him and begged the holy man to let him hid in the tree because he had just stolen some bread and now there was a mob after him, looking to hang him for his crime. The holy man consents and the beggar scrambles up the tree and hides, and then the mob comes and asks the holy man if he has seen a thief running past, unfortunately for the beggar however, the holy man had sworn a vow to always tell the truth, and so he reveals the hiding place of the beggar to the mob, who promptly set the tree on fire, burning the unfortunate thief to death.
MORAL OF THE STORY IS: Don't have a stick up your ass. Instead of caring so much about being right, know what the right thing to do is.
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