Honesty and Friendship
By LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222534)
United States
October 27, 2019 3:43pm CST
"Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it'll always get you the right ones." - John Lennon
Truer words were never spoken. Being truthful with people may not make you popular; but I would rather have someone tell me the truth than tell me what I want to hear. That's a true friend.
What do you think?
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@wolfgirl569 (135819)
• Marion, Ohio
27 Oct 19
If it is something small I dont worry about saying anything.
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
29 Oct 19
@LindaOHio
That is very true being honest does not get one lots of friends. I agree with you that a true friend will tell you the truth while someone that is a fake friend will tell you what you want to hear.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
27 Oct 19
I won`t hurt someones feelings over something that doesn`t really matter, I will lie. However, I usually tell it like I see it.
Most of the time I just won`t answer, sometimes its best to say nothing at all.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
28 Oct 19
Being honest comes with a backlash price these days.
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@innertalks (23741)
• Australia
11 Dec 19
Being honest is not necessarily being truthful, or is it?
Honesty is telling it how we see it right now. It might not necessarily actually be the truth, though.
We cannot see deeply enough into a situation sometimes to really see the truth of it as it applies to someone else.
If we presume to know the truth as it applies to another person, it could then be akin to judging them, which is not such a good thing to do either.
Is truth relative to a person, or is it absolute?
If it can be relative, how would the other person know what is our truth as it applies to us?
Truth is absolute in its relativeness.
This means that the truth always remains the truth as it exists within that truth, which is headed by God, being truth, but lower truths in so much as factual truths, preference truths, and honesty truths are more the debatable types of truth, because who knows, what is truth to you, might not be truth to another person.
Jesus Christ said that, "he is the way, the truth, and the life." (From the Bible book of John, chapter 14, verse 6)
Presumably, this means that nobody else is exactly this truth as he is, as he is the only way for us to reach into Heaven, and its greater truths.
This is because nobody knows all of the truth except for God.
Our own understanding of it must be limited, so who is to say that our own understanding of the truth, is greater than the next person's understanding of the truth is?
All we can really do then is be honest with another person, and to be as truthfully honest as we can know how to be too.
@LindaOHio (222534)
• United States
11 Dec 19
Thank you for responding and expressing your views.
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@innertalks (23741)
• Australia
11 Dec 19
@LindaOHio Thanks. That's only what I think. It's glad to put our thoughts out there sometimes, and share our views.
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