Are You Honest? Don’t Be »
Posted By WikiMap 9 months ago in NewsIt is an old adage that honesty is the best policy. But in modern times, we see the dishonest and the unscrupulous flourishing all around us.
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orndorffter9 months ago
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I cant be dishonest, even if it means that I have nothing. I know that there are a lot of dis honest people but thats not me and I cant be that way. So if I ever did anything worng I would tell on myself even if I had to pay the price. You can always tell when someone is dishoest and when someone is truthful. I take being truthful. At least I have a lot of love and thats what counts.
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CRYMTYPHON9 months ago
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From the article: "But in modern times, we see the dishonest and the unscrupulous flourishing all around us. And what is more surprising is the fact that they do not usually meet their just deserts in the end."
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I call it 'Koontz Syndrome' , after the great sci-fi horror writer Dean Koontz. He does great villains; they are all liberal monsters who reflect the sickness of a deseased society.
Koontz syndrome is the belief that people are more corrupt now than they were a hundred years ago; that there was a time when a man's handshake was as good as his word, and his word was his bond; that in the old days you didn't have to lock your doors and kids could take candy from strangers.
The reality is that liars, like all types of villains, prosper
in every age; it has always been so.
Which is as it should be.
If it always paid to be honest- then what honor would there be in it? It would merely be sound business policy.
Instead it is something better: a choice for the soul.
Be honest, always. Never lie; never tolerate a lie.
It won't fill your pocket with money or win the approval of your neighbors;
but it enters you in an inner crowd of heroes;
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bugle38019 months ago
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I so agree and so elequently put. Honesty is the best policy and those who think they can lie and cheat there way through life will get there just desserts. I have often thought to myself that maybe i should join the liars and theives to line my pockets but i have the will power to resist. I do not want to carry the guilt to my grave unlike a lot of unscrupulous members of society and of course my ex wife.
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SFCGuyW9 months ago
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People are not more corrupt now than ever before! What we see is more and faster reporting of crimes and corrupt businessmen & politicians - thus the belief that it is more prevalent. That and the fact that as our population increases so does the number of people who are corrupt or evil increase.
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During the so called 'good old days' where a handshake was a persons bond there were about the same percentage of people who viewed that handshake as a way to swindle the other guy or as their 'in' to a seat of power. Gunfights were not two men standing on the street facing each other, most of them were one man shooting the other in the back or from ambush. Corrupt politicians abounded because there were not the laws that placed checks on what they did and subjected them to criminal prosecution. The unlocked doors were because neighbors more closely watched out for each other because a large number of them worked for the same company and held get togethers - thus, it was much more difficult for criminals to rob houses. Now, most people, if they have the luck to still have a job, barely know their neighbors and are too busy trying to keep their own homes going to worry about someone else's. That and the number of civil lawsuits that have made people afraid to get involved for fear of being sued by the victim or even by the criminal. There are many more hon est people today than in the good old days, but only in numbers, not in percentage of the population.
It's the law of physics and civics - you can not have dark if there is no light, you can not have good if there is no evil, etc.
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CHAM9 months ago
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Honesty is the best policy. Always has been. What takes away from honesty today is the "who" is dishonest.
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If those who judge are dishonest - and many are - then being honest with a dishonest people is not your best policy. But the reason that honest is the best policy is because of the result we would get if all are honest.
I believe it was Plato who said the State had the right to lie to the citizen if it was in the interest of the State. Where Plato erred was that he should have qualified the citizenship as the State. Then if the State lied they would be lying to themselves, but if the State is a group of people who have no regard for the citizen, then the State is not the citizenship, and that is when the citizenship need to take back their government..... Sound familiar? -
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fiftynine9 months ago
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When one of my boys ask whats in the box under the Christmas tree..I lie..When my wife ask what i got her for our anniversary...I lie.
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When my friends wife asked me how i liked her new hair do (that made her look like my neighbors poodle..of coarse i lied,lol.
Is that acceptable ? I think so..
But i try not to lie about anything that i wouldn't want my children or my wife to lie about..If i can't be an example that my family can look up to then i'm not much of a person and i can't expect them to be any better.So far i think i've done a good job. -
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ADAGUY9 months ago
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When I was just a kid, my dad had a lot more influence on me than what one would expect. He instilled in me that honesty at all times is the only policy to live by. To this day I have continued this philosophy and it has served me well.
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Because the company I do most of my contracting for has to trust me with "master keys", which will open hundreds of occupied apartments, they know by now that I can be trusted, and to this day, while many others are looking for work, I am booked up for weeks in advance. This would not be the case if I were not honest with them all the time.
For example, a few years back, they overpaid one contract by $1,500.00. An oversight which would have never been found. But I contacted the VP, and informed him of the mistake. Acts like this do not go unnoticed by others. -
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jspfarm9 months ago
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Sometimes you wonder if honesty is best, last week I found a wallet in a store parking lot, when I opened it I saw that it contained a large amount of cash, I looked at the I.D. in it and did not recognise the name but looked in the phone book and found someone with the same last name and called them, it turned out that the person who lost the wallet was a reletive who was visiting, he didn't even know that he had lost it, he came to the store and I gave him the wallet-- Think he was grateful? Nope-- his only comment was "my ***king credit card had better be in here" Turns out there was $600.00 cash in the wallet ( I did count it while waiting for him to arrive) but he was more concerned that I had taken his lousey plastic money--I felt so hurt, to me returning the wallet was the only option, I sure could have used the money considering I am a 100% disabled veteran, who is struggling to keep his home and survive on just my pension, but to keep any of what was in there would have left me sleepless and feeling even more worthless than I already do.
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Cheaters, Theives and Liars may prosper in the short run but eventually they fall... -
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charles12345678909 months ago
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It is true on earth we can get away with quite a bit. I lived my life believing that we can get away with (virtually anything) here and now, and I never thought about an eternity after death. A couple of years ago I was involved in a severe automobile accident when a drunk driver slammed into the side of my car at an intersection. I was rushed to a hospital and was worked on in an emergency room. During that time I remember the doctors saying, "we are losing him." After hearing that statement I remember going into darkness and then, after that, meeting God. He showed me how I had lived my life and "played tapes" at various points, which brought back memories of my thoughts and actions. Needless to say I had been very selfish and thought during most of my life there were no consequences for what I had done. I saw how my dishonesty had effected and hurt others. I saw the consequences of my own and others behaviors. I saw my destiny could either be hell or heaven and God showed me short glimpses of both. After having seen the horrors of hell and the ecstasy of heaven, I asked for another chance at life. Shortly thereafter the emergency room doctors were able to bring me back. I have completely changed my life since then and now strive to do good works for God and others even though it seems that for now there are no rewards for goodness nor consequences for evil such as lying to and using others. God showed me there really are eternal rewards (both good and bad) for the lives we live on earth. Jesus’ words reverberate through my soul, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind, and treat your neighbor as you would like to be treated.” If you do this, you will indeed be saved and ushered into the world where multitudes of others who have lived these Christ-like precepts will lavish in an eternity where streets truly are “paved with gold” and “pleasures ever more” will be found.
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CRYMTYPHON9 months ago
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I like "now there are no rewards for goodness nor consequences for evil " yet you affirm more than ever the value of being moral
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To me it seems that real goodness exists beyond the world of reward or punishment.
Here in the regular world, we have to make do.
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CRYMTYPHON9 months ago
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Most of us make exceptions for when there is some moral dilemma, like trying to solve a crime.
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In The Lord Of The Rings , the hero Faramir tells Frodo
"I would not snare even an Ork, with a falsehood."
But I don't think Gondor had used car salesmen.
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DrCarlHindy9 months ago
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Sadly, the news these days might lead to a spiral of more distrust and cynicism, and a distortion of what's normal. I, for one, believe that the vast vast majority of people are honest and expect the same in return.
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Carl Hindy, PhD
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