Dave 123
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How important is honesty in your life?
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Slick
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Charm the birds straight out the trees.
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night cycler
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[QUOTE 5171481, member: 9609"]This year I'm cycling across the Atlantic then taking the North West passage to the berring sea.
813 miles to date.
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Tin Pot
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Apparently I hate to lie, which is true.
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What exactly does 'honesty' mean in this thread? It's a general, and genuinely open question, but aimed primarily at those who say they value it before other stuff like love or kindness or a good breakfast or whatever. Is it about an adherence to an idea of 'the truth', or more an openness about the self, or something else entirely?
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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Ever since reading Dune a word has stuck with me
Candour
Candour
Tin Pot
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I believe in an objective reality, I also believe that denying people their right to experience it is heinous. Lying to people is depriving them of reality. It’s unconscionable.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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I looked up "honesty" on Google. I thought that the wiki entry was rather good. It didn't encompass "good breakfasts" though.
Honesty - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honesty
Honesty refers to a facet of moral character and connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and sincere.
And how do people who do not share your beliefs get to apprehend that 'reality' (assuming, as you do, that such a thing is desirable)?
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Yellow Fang
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I believe I am fairly honest, only sometimes I dissimulate. I still have not told all my friends I voted Brexit. I have had to listen to them impugn, by association, my intelligence and tolerance for racial difference.
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StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
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In personal life, absolutely vital. That's assuming it's not a 'white lie'- and one of those depends on the circumstances...
Being lied to hurts.
Being treated like a liar when you know you're being entirely honest, because the person has been lied to again and again and they doubt everyone, hurts even more.
A good friend or partner isn't afraid to tell you when you've crossed a line, when you're plain wrong, or just talking BS. Or to hear the same from you. I'm lucky to have had one of those in my life for nearly 25 years.
Being lied to hurts.
Being treated like a liar when you know you're being entirely honest, because the person has been lied to again and again and they doubt everyone, hurts even more.
A good friend or partner isn't afraid to tell you when you've crossed a line, when you're plain wrong, or just talking BS. Or to hear the same from you. I'm lucky to have had one of those in my life for nearly 25 years.
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Cheers Slowmo, but we've all got Google (not to mention an understanding of commonplace words and ideas). I was hoping for a little more commitment, or personal engagement.
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swee'pea99
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My sister told me about friends of hers who were visited by friends they'd made while on holiday in Germany who, when asked what they thought of the decoration in the living room, said they thought it was overly ostentatious and a bit vulgar, and were taken aback when their hosts took umbrage.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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