Share platitudinated irrelevantly: > I think Truth is something huge, that cannot really be completely conveyed > in words > alone. Unless the speaker or writer is communicating from a very settled and > integrated level > of consciousness.
Duh. However, we haven't been talking about "Truth," we've been talking about truths, mundane facts as opposed to falsehoods, which can easily be "completely conveyed in words alone" if one is honest. No need for an exalted level of consciousness for those. > OTOH, unless someone has a nefarious intention, I think most people try to > communicate > truthfully. But each of us is limited by our connection to Truth. The most > trustworthy > people, imho, are those who recognize this and intend to become more and > more truthful. Yes, most folks on FFL, thank goodness, do try to communicate truthfully. However, there are several "bad apples" here who repeatedly lie to gain advantage over a critic, or to defend themselves from a valid criticism, or even just for fun because they enjoy lying. Those kinds of lies are terribly destructive to any feeling of community on FFL, and those of us who just let them go by (or worse, try to distract us from them or make excuses for them) are enabling that destructiveness. On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 9:21 AM, Richard J. Williams <punditster@...> wrote: Maybe, but I almost always suspect someone of not being totally honest when they post as an anonymous informant. I used to post under various handles until I got outed, and so I decided when I retired, I would just use my real name. I've got nothing to hide and nobody can fire me from my job since I'm self-employed now. But using a handle is no biggie to me because I understand why some people need to keep their privacy. But, I did get a little paranoid reading Bill's post where he claimed Ravi had stalked or threatened, to what - expose Bill and his wife. What's up with that? That's when things get REALLY nasty around here - I wouldn't blame Rick if he shut down the whole discussion group, if that's what going to happen here on a regular basis! It is always troubling to see someone get banned from the group. Where I used to work, you had to really screw up big time to get fired - like smoking pot in the parking lot or something like that. Hardly anyone gets banned on FFL - Kirk got banned for cursing too. Go figure. And, I don't care if people post mean things about me sometimes - it could always just be a joke of some kind - like when Barry2 posted that my real name was Walter White. LoL! On 11/27/2013 8:49 AM, anartaxius@... mailto:anartaxius@... wrote: 10 Ways Liars Use Words To Obscure the Truth http://liespotting.com/liespotting-basics/words/ http://liespotting.com/liespotting-basics/words/ We are not face-to-face on FFL, it's all words, words, words. There are those here who make a big deal of their integrity. Perhaps that is a suspect trait.
