Lacy
New Member
How honest are you?
Some classic examples:
Honey, do these pants make me look fat?
You're given too much money back at a store.
Your girlfriend gets her hair done orange with purple streaks and just LOVES it.
You are married and have a harmless secret crush on someone.
You are shopping at the grocery store and you are famished so you scoop some grapes.
You are at a ATM behind an elderly woman and she leaves with her card still in the machine ready for the next transaction.
This list could go on and on but you get the point.
I posed this question on another thread one time and said that I think it is possible to be too honest and several people responded with;
there is no such thing as too honest!!!!!!
Honest is always presumed to be a black or white subject BUT is it?
Is one either totally honest or not?
I've often run into situations where my blatant honesty has been to my disadvantage but I have always figured that as long as I can go home and feel good about the person looking in the mirror, then its all good.
No matter what the loss.
Is being too honest the same as being too gullible?
I often wonder how someone can deceive another clearly for their own advantage and give themselves a pat on the back or credit for being more intelligent. (ha ha sure fooled them etc...)
Why do we lie?
Some classic examples:
Honey, do these pants make me look fat?
You're given too much money back at a store.
Your girlfriend gets her hair done orange with purple streaks and just LOVES it.
You are married and have a harmless secret crush on someone.
You are shopping at the grocery store and you are famished so you scoop some grapes.
You are at a ATM behind an elderly woman and she leaves with her card still in the machine ready for the next transaction.
This list could go on and on but you get the point.
I posed this question on another thread one time and said that I think it is possible to be too honest and several people responded with;
there is no such thing as too honest!!!!!!
Honest is always presumed to be a black or white subject BUT is it?
Is one either totally honest or not?
I've often run into situations where my blatant honesty has been to my disadvantage but I have always figured that as long as I can go home and feel good about the person looking in the mirror, then its all good.
No matter what the loss.
Is being too honest the same as being too gullible?
I often wonder how someone can deceive another clearly for their own advantage and give themselves a pat on the back or credit for being more intelligent. (ha ha sure fooled them etc...)
Why do we lie?