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I used to think it was important to be brutally, indiscreetly honest. "Honey, does this dress make me look fat?" "I cannot tell a lie. The dress highlights the extra forty pounds on your ass. But the dress itself does not make you look fat, the fat does."
Then I realized I liked getting laid more than I liked thinking of myself (and being thought of by others) as someone who deliberately always occupied his own warped sense of the moral high ground.
We live in a society of humans. The absolute truth is sometimes absolutely necessary, and it's important to cling tightly to one's grasp of the meaningful truths of existence -- and of yesterday's news. Pretending, merely in order to SPIN, is a problem. But at the same time, people want a happy existence.
And women, to a GREAT extent, respond positively only if the man is lying. Honesty has never gotten me a chick, or a friendship, or respect. Sad but true.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche
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