Would you rather live a lie & be happy or live you true and be miserable?

I think most people realise the bible is not 100 percent correct.You take from it what makes sense for you.There is nothing wrong with getting faith if it helps you deal with life.Loads of people beleave in different versions of the book.To answer your question I would rather be honest to myself.To be a good lyer you have to have a good memory,you get caught out then people get annoyed with you.Just be true to yourself and be happy.

I think I know someone who is living a lie. He would tell all the nicest things. But there comes a time you;'d come to know that most of the things he says are all lies and imagination. I can't live a life like that. I would rather be true and if neede, tell people about my miseries than make people think that I'm the happiest when inside I'm not.

Either way it's a matter of individual choice, I mean I couldn't get clearly whether you refer only to religion as a lie or to life in general. If it comes to religion only, some people just feel more secure to believe there is something higher and divine that guides them in their lifetime and more or less dictate their acts. Having someone or something to believe in is a kind of sanctuary and lie isn't of that significance to such people. Finding that all they believed in is a lie may cause, though, severe mental breakdown at some point. If it comes to living in a lie in general, I'd prefer living with the truth, because sooner or later the lie comes out and life, no matter how happy it wat up to this point, will become much more miserable. I don't know if there is a single answer to such a philosophic question.

I would prefer to be true. It is not good to live in lies, if the people known this then some will put you in misery. You may lost the trust from them.

it is better to live in the truth and be miserable for a while because if you allow yourself to live in a lie, the truth will always come out and when it does, it will haunt you for the rest of your life. you may be happy living a lie, but it wont last very long, you will never find peace of mind and being at peace is happiness in itself.

sometimes we have to lie making others happy, but if u wanna be a happy person stay true to you

Truth always set us free. I won't let my whole life live within a lie, nor live a miserable life. Truth may hurts- but why should I let misery take a whole of me if I can choose to live a better life. Living with a lie, or living a miserable is a choice. And no one can blame anyone for having a miserable life, or living a life full of lies.

I'd rather live with truth than spend my whole life having to live with lies, That would never make anyone happy. You need to have a clean conscience so you could be truly happy.

I am not clear about your sentence because of spelling mistakes and construction of sentences. Yes, religions guide the people to go at the right track. If anybody becomes positively religious by heart, then that man or woman becomes an asset for the whole the human beings.

I believe that a happy life also composes living in the truths you are believing in. Living a lie would indeed be against our own will and discretion. Even if this lie is what is being accepted in a community, knowing that its a lie will not compensate everything else.

Truth will always come out. so why lie and be happy. You may feel miserable at the moment but Life is like a wheel as we always say.. it has ups and downs. maybe the truth may not give you happy life for now, doesn't mean forever... lie will make you happy for now but not forever too. why prolong the agony when you know that all happiness you are saying happiness are all lies. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” ? Socrates http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/truth

well i cant get u a little bit about ur sort of engilsh expression, but sure thing is for some patients particularly the terminally ill ones, it would be far better to live a lie