GOD punishes ....if you talk bad or tell a lie.....

India
June 11, 2009 1:57pm CST
My mom told me to study.........i lied that i had studied and worked on my project.......and the bottled in hand slipped and fell on my foot.........my mom grined and replied "see god punishes you if you tell a lie...".....I said i ain't lying and at the same time was plugging in the television....instead of the plug my finger went in the socket.....baaaaammm....painful electric shock .....my mom said. "told ya don't lie.."...i was frustrated....shouted " I am not lying."...turned and baam....my head on the wall........Mom started laughing.....i had a headache.......didn't had the courage to protest again....... So ws my mom right????
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@caver1 (1762)
• United States
11 Jun 09
Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me. Think about it. Alot of people lie every day and nothing seems to go wrong for them. Lying does have consquences whether they happen right then or later, or maybe a certain lie never seems to come back to haunt you. I'm not sure if your mom is right or not, but I'd stop lying if I were you.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
11 Jun 09
No. Your Mom can say (and believe) that it was God that punished you ... and that is OK. That is the way she was brought up and that, no doubt, is the way she will always think. You can't change that and, actually, she is not wrong. 'God' is actually more complicated than 'Lying is wrong' or 'Thou shalt not'. You have to first understand who 'he' is and how you relate to him. You may not believe in him ... that is OK, too ... but one day (hopefully) you will begin to understand him and eventually meet him. Then, and at exactly that moment, you will have met and understood yourself. You are NOT God (that is not what I said, did I?), nor is God you but God's energy and love flows through you, whether you like it or not. When you acknowledge and accept that, that is when you will begin to have 'happy' accidents rather than 'unhappy' ones; when you learn to listen to your heart, you will also begin to know which way you should go (and which way you should not). This, you will find, does have quite a lot in common with what your Mom says but it isn't a matter of 'rules' ... more a compelling and logical reason for choosing one path above another. Every person has their own path. 'Good' people tend to have a common way of choosing their paths but it is not really based on the Ten Commandments, even though it has many things in common. It is based on what is often called 'conscience' ... a word that means 'with knowledge' - in other words, 'with knowledge of God' ... 'knowing our best path' (not necessarily our most comfortable or most self-consoling path but the one that will lead us to where we need to be).
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@pickoy (733)
• Philippines
12 Jun 09
I can't add anything to that... this for me is the best response.
@bearound (132)
• China
12 Jun 09
I love your reponse too.I don't belive there is God in the world.I belive 'something' flows through us.We can call it 'God' or something.We try to be a nice person through our own path.It is not because of fear that we will be punished.
@med889 (5941)
12 Jun 09
I believe in life, when I am happy I thank Life.
• United States
11 Jun 09
Harsh- I believe in both coincidences and synchronicities, however I do not believe that any of them come from the Divine. I don't believe that the Divine is someone sitting around just to grant us instant karma, karma like that comes from our own actions. In this case, I think honestly it was just your mind doing what it does. It's a very powerful computer! I think that the bottle that slipped was an accident, but because she stated her comment your brain took over and began stringing together every event after that. You were probably already agitated at having dropped the bottle, and then your mom's comments. Then it was just a long series of coincidences that led to you being here contemplating if God did this to you for lying. I don't think God did this, and I don't think you were punished that many times for lying. Namaste-Anora
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• Portugal
12 Jun 09
Totally agree with this answer. Religion, divinity, spiritual, has none to do with it, in my opinion. It´s all a question of conscience, in deed, and sense of responsability...and by the way, conscience has absolutelly nothing to do, etymologically, with the knowledge of God...it is, simply, the reasoning of good and wrong... It is up to you, my friend, to decide which way will you go...keeping in mind that even if not all lies are harmfull, building a path made of some lies is, most probably, leading you to some sort of social punishment (descredibility, insucess, frustration, etc)... Peace
• United States
12 Jun 09
I think it was all coincidence. She put the thought into your head and then it was playing in your mind and you not fully paying attention to what you were doing. My dad always used to play that trick on me (even though it was to scare me cause I had the hiccups). He said because I have the hiccups I lied to him about something. My mom also used to try to play that trick on me and say to me because I lied to her god is punishing me. (A few years ago I was in a bad car accident) so my reply to her since then was "If I am such a lier, and god really wanted to punish me so bad, he would have killed me in that accident.I was lucky I walked away. So just cause your mom said that and you weren't lying I think it was just coincidence. (But don't lie anyway, it's not worth it.)
• Brazil
12 Jun 09
LOL Everyone lies, in fact, many things in the world just work because of lies. I can't believe your mom, she is lying to you tell everything to her. Besides, problaby your story was a little exaggerating. ;P ;P ;P LOL
@sdboy619 (82)
• United States
12 Jun 09
Well your mom ain't no wizard or witch just because you lied. I mean lying is bad, but not to the extreme something bad like that is going to happen. Aren't you a little bit old because this topic sounds like a little child. No offense and no I'm not lying about this either.
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
12 Jun 09
No she wasn't. There is no god and if there was do you really think he would have nothing better to do than punish you for lying?
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
11 Jun 09
. i tell my sons mom's are always right. of course they don't pay any attention to me. T hey are grown w/kids of their own.
@med889 (5941)
12 Jun 09
It sounds a bit funny but everybody lie and even I do many time, though I promise myself recently that I will try not to lie for 5 days in a month so we are human being after all an we are easily attracted to lying to others. Now this is bad and I know sometimes it can hurt somebody too so it is all a fact in life that we might be caught of lying an then others say that God has punishes me so I do not believe in all these, all I know is that lying is bad and I am trying to lie a little less. Atleast I am being very honest to myself.
@shibham (16977)
• India
12 Jun 09
hi there. i think that was co-incident. but continuous three times, quite unbelievable. if it was realy happened to your life then your mother is representing god. i think u should not tell a lie ever after. i also lie, but i have no experience like u. perhaps i am a perfact lier and u, just pretending to be a lier. how funny. ha ha ha .....
@mye_drew (182)
• Israel
12 Jun 09
ouch i feel the painful of the electric that came in your body...well it is an accidentally happened, or u lied ,r u? PEACE
• United States
12 Jun 09
ofcourse your mom is right . because i believe that mom and god are same . and i too had the same sort of experience in my school days . whenever i tell a lie she use to tell that god will punish . i do believe that i will be punished in any of the other means knowingly r unknowingly . u will be punished definitely whenever u talk bad or tell a lie .
• United States
12 Jun 09
I think your mom is partially right . All who lie are not being caught in this world and at the same time all are not spared .Its only luck I would say .Its upto you to believe the existance of god. But to be on the safer side it is better to avoid telling lies as it is a good habbit
• United States
12 Jun 09
From my perspective i would say that your mom is right to certain extent . But not all who lie are being caught .So i can only say that your mom is partially correct because there are instances where you will be caught if you keep on adding on lies one on the top of the other. Its upto you to believe the existance of GOD.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
11 Jun 09
Who was in charge when you punished yourself? You, right. Better not lie, it's not worth it and sooner or later it catches up with you. The worse thing that happens is you forget what you said the last time you lied so you tell another one and pretty soon everyone knows you lie.