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Why be polite?

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143 Posts / 36M
     :   30yrs   :  
MJClone

Even though being brash and brutally honest in the past has worked for you; doesn't mean that it's the correct behaviour towards another human being. Maybe you were raised to be explicitly honest. who knows but that type of thinking breeds hate and malious. Your test subject that you tried it on tell me more. i would like to know and does she come back to you for more advice or does she run.


"what if I'm a clone?"

1347 Posts / 40M
     :   23yrs   :  
etherealmeekle

Why does honesty have to be a weapon? Why can't a person be honest with the intention of encouraging another instead of bringing them down?


"Speak out, even if what you have to say is unpopular"

1687 Posts / 38M
     :   20yrs   :  
awakendwraith

that is what i use it for. i wasnt trying to make her cry.. well i was, but it wasnt to make her feel bad. it was to teach her. and what kind of encouragemant is better than teaching.


"Wht cry for those that often cry? Instead, help them smile, and smile for those that smile."

143 Posts / 36M
     :   30yrs   :  
MJClone

Honesty arms you with truth and helps you break the strongholds of death destroy those things that keep you ignorance. Heres something honest I've learned alot from awaken his honesty at times was willed as a sword that cut a lot of fat and sh*t out of my messages that help me to get back focused on what i was thinking it's deffinately not were it i want it to be but there are other masters out there that's gonna show me different ways of willing my knowledge and wisdom.


"what if I'm a clone?"

1687 Posts / 38M
     :   20yrs   :  
awakendwraith

my boss is laughing with me, and the girls realize that i was just joking and become more observant of themselves and that they might be wrong.

and see, i understand that there are other ways. this is just mine, and it does work. ofcourse i read each person and decide which method i should use. im not an idiot, if i know that my way will not work, i'll try another. and i geuss that is what this is about. why try the others? becuase not every fight is worth fighting.


"Wht cry for those that often cry? Instead, help them smile, and smile for those that smile."

41 Posts / 8M
     :   27yrs   :  
willowwater

I'm nearly always polite, it doesn't cost anything and it doesn't cause animosity. As for laughing at a joke thats not funny well, the way I see it, if someone has taken the time to make a fool out of themselves telling a crap joke in an attempt to make you smile, the least you could do is let them think they've succeeded, at least one of you can walk away happy!!!


529 Posts / 30M
     :   20yrs   :  
ChrisD

People that make bad jokes are usually looking more for attention and acceptance than to make you smile. When someone's sincere about trying to make you smile it shows itself in some way. When someone is sincere about trying to get you to like them, that also shows itself in some way. It's hard to fake sincerity so if you really are being honest with people in an attempt to help them, that's gonna come across.


"I try my best to be just like I am but everybody wants you to be just like them."

9 Posts / 8M
     :   18yrs   :  
LoneByrd

Politeness exists so that humans can coexist with everyone, manners and politeness comes along with some similar points of society, it's there to keep order and stop chaos.

Without politeness, people would be at each other's throats, if everyone said what they truly throught, there would be a lot of "blood".

Manners are there to keep the peace. (Period)


"Reality hits hard. Your perception hits it even harder."

244 Posts / 15M
     :   18yrs   :  
CrypticTruth

quote:
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts


""Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth" -oscar wilde"

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