Everyone says

[duchessletitia]

I have been thinking about the phrase “everyone says” and it occurs to me that this is a basic part of our worlds. We like it when we are in agreement with our friends. It is not as comfortable when we disagree. I am not talking about the small disagreements. I am talking about the fundamental disagreements such as politics or religion. I know

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Seeing Clearly is the issue

[red6count]

Well Your Highness,

Seeing clearly is the issue, and because you don't agree with them, doesn't make them wrong. If there is anything I have learned in our little group is that there is no such thing as "THE TRUTH", just an interconnected lattice work of truths. The problem I see that when someones' truth doesn't match our own, our natural reaction is to assume it is personal, and that is it own little catch.

Re: Seeing Clearly is the issue

[duchessletitia]

Yes, your truth may not be my truth. But I am not going to cloak my truth by saying "everyone says". We need to question what "everyone says".

[mamapduck]

This weekend someone said to me, as thoush it was fact, "Did you know someone did XBadThing to Person?"

The issue is that I know both the anonymous someone, the named "Person" as well a disinterested third party present at the event and as I pointed out to the speaker, only one of them remembers it that way. The speaker is well-intentioned and generally an honest guy but he made himself part of the Everyone who Says without bothering to verify.