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There are many truths.


There is only one truth about what YOU think.


Yes, and peoples with sublety understand what they "trully think" is not necessarily the true objective reality - which is why they don't bluntly declare it as if it is, and as if making it known is the only thing that mattered.

Which is why:

"This idea might not be good"

can be better than:

"This idea is BS"

Even if the second is more direct and is what you "trully think".

Because even if you "trully think" the idea is BS, that's just like, your opinion, man. The first formulation makes this clearer.

P.S. You can't complaint about me being curt here though, I blunty said what I trully think about this :-)


Sorry man, but people should know when they are older then 10 that what anybody thinks is their opinion and not reality. There is no need to say it each time.

So you prefer people hiding their true thoughts instead of being honest? Its probably one of the major reasons for all the BS we have around...


I generally have multiple possibilities in mind in any situation, and sometimes people acknowledge this as a normal mode of human thought, so it's odd when others contradict it with the same apparent confidence.


"A good thing about truths is that there are so many to choose from!"




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