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honesty is the best policy
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that phrase should end with "Just kidding"

People, in general, always say that they want to be told the truth, yet when they are told the truth they quite often become angry or upset. It seems like when asked "Tell me the truth" they really mean "Lie to me so it softens the blow"

This, I've found is mainly in social problems and not questions of fact such as "Did you steal Z?", but rather more personal/social things such as "How do you feel about me?" "Why did you break up with me?" etc.

So why do you think we cannot make up our minds or rather cannot say what we really mean in these situations?


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Re: honesty is the best policy [Re: learningtofly]
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So why do you think we cannot make up our minds or rather cannot say what we really mean in these situations?

Cause we're neurotic fucked up primates?

What did I win.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: honesty is the best policy [Re: Icelander]
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:whacker: lifetime supply of handjobs.


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Re: honesty is the best policy [Re: learningtofly]
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Good cause I was about to run out.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: honesty is the best policy [Re: Icelander]
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:hook: it could happen.


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"Have you ever seen what happens when a grenade goes off in a school? Do you really know what you’re doing when you order shock and awe? Are you prepared to kneel beside a dying soldier and tell him why he went to Iraq, or why he went to any war?"
"The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done—dare I say it—in the name of God. Montesquieu said, "There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of God." And I begin to feel that’s true. The shareholder is the excuse for everything."
- Author and former M6/M5 agent John le Carré on Democracy Now.
Conquer's Club

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Re: honesty is the best policy [Re: Icelander]
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oh i forgot to mention it's a do-it-yourself kit.


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Re: honesty is the best policy [Re: learningtofly]
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Honesty is the best policy ... when the policy is shared.
One honest person in a group of neurotic liars (IE human beings) just causes friction. :shrug:


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Re: honesty is the best policy [Re: laserpig]
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I think this is another term take in the wrong context.
Just like:
"Be careful what you wish fore"
"Love thy neighbor as Thyself"
"The truth will set you free"

Like Markos stated earlier yesterday, It's all about the Historical Context.

IMO, being honest with yourself is damn good policy.

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Re: honesty is the best policy [Re: Fraggin]
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While it may be a outdated phrase, people still tell you to be honest with them but they often are angry with the results.


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Re: honesty is the best policy [Re: learningtofly]
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Perhaps that's why the phrase 'brutally honest' has a qualifying intrinsic value.

I didn't intend to incenuate that it's an outdated phrase, but more or less that it has lost it's intent through pedagogy and lack of translation.

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Re: honesty is the best policy [Re: learningtofly]
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Its pretty simple:

"Honesty is the best policy" is describing the virtue of a social contract. For instance, it is possible to mutually benefit from a contract between different parties.

Well, that was the ordinary meaning, but of course its a favorite to gripe about being the tough guy that "can handle the truth" as opposed to those who "can't".


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Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
  The frumious Bandersnatch!

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