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July 7, 2020 at 7:16 am #360916
AnonymousInactiveWith the internet we now all have the opportunity to air our concerns and emotions on forums, many of these forums are public so we all need to be careful not share too much personal details that would reveal our identity , so we all tweak the facts , different names, dates and locations, that sort of thing. But, the emotional essence and important facts supporting the emotions are accurate to provide context for the reader.
Recently I was on a public forum and shared details of a long running emotional struggle as I value insights and suggestions from others. One participant reading my posts discovered some inconsistencies in my many updates and replies , issues with date sequencing mostly. This led this participant to accuse me of being a lier, writing this in very strong terms.
My question now is when is the truth a lie, how far do you have to go in protecting you identity on a public forum before your truth becomes a lie. What’s are acceptable identity protecting tactics and at what stage do these tactics distort the truth to the extent that your truth becomes a lie ?
July 7, 2020 at 7:44 am #360918
ThonditParticipantDear Canadian Eagle,
Sometime it is pathetic to tell the truth rather than lying. I would advice you it is impossible to force the object to move. So if that guy doesn’t agree what you had shared then it is up to him /her. Always stand at your words knowing you are telling the truth but not a skimming lie.
Just ignore and continue with your own life. Or otherwise tell him you are right just to cut the story short.
All the best.
Cheer
Greg
July 8, 2020 at 12:57 am #360997AnonymousInactiveGreg
Thank you for your kind words, you are indeed correct when you advise to ignore negative people. If someone falsely calls you a liar, just get on with you life. Life ultimately is about attracting positive energy. Deciding how to respond is where freedom lives. Victor Frankl who wrote the book “Man’s Search for Meaning” learnt in during his time in a concentration camp that freedom resides between stimulus and response. You may have no control over the events of your life , but you have control over how you respond. Often your response is not action, but how you decide to emotionally respond.
Have a wonderful day
July 9, 2020 at 6:11 am #361092AnonymousInactiveHere are a few quotes in the truth that I liked :-
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.”
William Faulkner“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
Franz Kafka“Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.”
Warren WiersbeIn the current world of billions of is words and voices , how can we know what is true. If someone does not like what you say, it is called “fake news”, if you have an untruth in your head , you can now find others on the internet to confirm your untruth .so when is the truth a lie, how can we sure that we truthful ?July 14, 2020 at 3:24 am #361638AnonymousInactiveFollowing the theme of truth and adjusting some fact to protest identity I was reading about the accuracy of the bible, is the bible true to factual details ? Despite years of research with Scripture in one hand and cutting-edge technology in the other, evidence backing the Bible remains elusive. That is not to say that the spirit and meaning of the bible are untruths, quite the opposite actually, but the factual details of every parable often don’t pass a rigours fact based truth test.
July 16, 2020 at 6:19 am #361865AnonymousInactiveCan one persons “truth” be another persons “fake news” ?
Have can be be sure we know that is truth ?
July 20, 2020 at 6:59 am #362150AnonymousInactiveIs your conscience always a source of your truth ?
August 1, 2020 at 11:02 am #363469AnonymousInactiveIs logic truths?
Can you have truth with out facts ?
Can my truth contradict your truth ?
August 5, 2020 at 11:31 am #363915AnonymousInactiveWith the internet we now have the opportunity to air our concerns and emotions on forums, many of these forums are public so we all need to be careful not to share too much personal details that would reveal our identity , so we all tweak the facts , different names, dates and locations, that kind of thing. But, the emotional essence and important facts supporting the emotions are accurate to provide context for the readers.
Recently, I was on a public forum and shared details of a long running emotional struggle as I value insights and suggestions from others. One participant reading my posts discovered some inconsistencies in my many updates and replies, issues with date sequencing mostly. This led this participant to accuse me of being a lier, writing this in very strong terms.
My question now is when is the truth a lie, how far do you have to go in protecting you identity on a public forum before your truth becomes a lie. What’s are acceptable identity protecting tactics and at what stage do these tactics distort the truth to the extent that your truth becomes a lie ?
August 24, 2020 at 7:28 am #365415AnonymousInactiveHow do we know what is really true ?
September 3, 2020 at 6:47 am #366038AnonymousInactiveWhat is fake news ? …… other people’s truths that you can’t accept
September 22, 2020 at 11:17 am #367095
PeterParticipantMy question now is when is the truth a lie, how far do you have to go in protecting you identity on a public forum before your truth becomes a lie. What’s are acceptable identity protecting tactics and at what stage do these tactics distort the truth to the extent that your truth becomes a lie ?
Engagement in social media requires a certain amount of discernment. In someways it can be used as a tool to revival ones true self just or as a tool to conceal it. The question as to what is a truth or lie about oneself can only be answer by the self asking it.
Protecting identity though tactics might suggest the involvement of ego. As most social media dialog is with people we do not know a other questions we might ask ourselves: what is identity, what am I protecting and why do I feel the need to protect it in the ways that I do?
From a different perspective,as we often don’t know the persons we are talking to, dialog on any social media site can be viewed as dialog with oneself. A great tool to discovering things about oneself, clarifying thoughts and such. But a difficult tool engagement with others honestly and with compassion. Of course that also reveals something about ourselves.
We must put our confidence in truth. But that doesn’t mean sitting back, and waiting for the truth to shine from above, as one might sit back and wait for the day to break. It means following with devoted obedience the truth we have seen as true, with an entire confidence that life will correct, clear and redirect our vision, to the perception of a freer and deeper truth.
Go with the truth you have, and let it carry you into collision with the hard rocks of life, and then you’ll learn something.
Of course Learning requires a openness to being wrong, capable of being brutally honest with one self, no easy task in my experience.
October 16, 2020 at 3:59 pm #367902AnonymousInactivePete
you words are thoughtful and wise
Thank You
Tony
February 2, 2021 at 3:47 pm #373934AnonymousInactiveI wonder with the changes underway, the foundation of science in our pandemic recovery ,….. are we now entering a new era of truth based on science and facts
December 20, 2021 at 1:15 pm #390160AnonymousInactiveStill don’t know when the truth is a lie
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