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Frances Leader's avatar

Yes! You have nailed it. Telling the truth has got me into some hot water all through my life. When I was four years old I told my mum about the man upstairs who showed me pictures of naked women. My dad went crazy and beat the man up, very badly. He went to court for the assault and was bound over to keep the peace for a year. The effect of that event was to teach me that telling my parents the truth had bad consequences. I avoided telling them anything after that.

I learned to read from newspapers and realised that they were full of lies, very early on. You are so right we are steeped in lies all the time. You are also correct when you say how hard it is to break the habit of lying automatically, eg: "Hi Sue! How are you?" "Oh I am fine!" comes the reply even though you can see she is in pain and struggling to walk on a broken foot.

Thanks for tackling this knotty problem. It needed saying!

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Anders Myking's avatar

This one hit me right in a train of thoughts I’m in. Truth, telling and living it... Thanks

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