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Question: Is it a lie to censor your thoughts!?
There seems to be a fine line between being considerate and belittling someone, between being frank and being rude, between using tact and using deception!.!.!.

It's been said: "The cruelest lies are often told in silence!.!.!." so might censored thoughts be the greatest weaponry of frauds!?

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Who is it that decides that something is a lie, or even censoring!? The only person who will know this is the person who told the lie or censored their thoughts in the first place!. and if you asked them about it, wondering if they were lieing, who's to say they would tell the truth and tell you what they meant in the first place!.

Lieing and censoring thoughts is just another way to direct people away from the reality of the real situation!. Most often it is probably for the best that someone is lieing, due to the fact that most people not only wont be able to handle the truth, but would dismiss it altogether!. It is due to ignorance and unwillingness to understand that leads people to dismiss the truth, and such ignorance brings forth racism and other forms of hatred!.

People dont like people to tell the truth!. It would be a much better world though if the truth was more acceptable and understood!. But its not!.

personally if i want someone to understand and accept the truth, i mislead them into believing the truth desguised as a lie!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

There seems to be two questions here!. Is it a lie to censor your thoughts!? Yes it is!. To kid yourself or deceive yourself in anyway is not a good thing!.

Is it always good to express those thoughts!? I don't think it is!. Who will get hurt!? Some things should be kept to oneself!. I value honesty highly but hurt feelings and worse can come from uncensored truth!.

Tell the judge who your accomplices were!. Their families will not thank you!.

Tell your wife you cheated while blind drunk!. That's a case by case thing but in general she gets hurt and maybe a family destroyed!. A better solution don't get blind drunk again!.

A simpler one go ahead tell her the dress makes her look fat!. Have a fun evening,

I am a great believer in honesty and a lie to protect just yourself is dishonorable!. Speaking of myself and my motivations, intentions and actions then honesty is paramount and people will just have to deal!. When others are involved and I am speaking of others actions and responding to others motivations and intentions then some thought is involved though honesty is still the and always the first thing to consider then not the only thing!.

Wolf2RogerWww@QuestionHome@Com

hmm!.!.!.
Another matter of balance; like all of life's important issues!. The answer lies somewhere between 'brutally honest' and 'Mr!. Sugar-coater'!. I tend to be more honest to friends and those who are important to me; your friends are the ones who know you care and that you aren't trying to start a fight!. Your friends are the ones, also, who will tell you (when no-one else does) that your fly is down, or you have a booger hanging out of your nose!.
With those who we don't know, and don't expect to get too close to, we get lazy or chicken and hold back some, in order not to offend or because we don't think it's worth the argument it may start!. Besides, those who don't know you are more likely to misinterpret and think you're being rude, a jerk, or otherwise not nice!.
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I rose to reform the world and wrote nine books to change the patterns of Silent Crimes!. In silence they agreed to delete me of my own prophecy and censor and defame and slander me!. Every day in their programs no matter what I did they made sure they say nothing about me or bring out my name!. 12 year of my prophetic journey is the witness not only to the Rose Prophecy of Truth and Spiritual Success! Hitler's followers never ques tined him and did not let him know they too were uncomfortable with his greed and cruelty to kill those who reminded him of himself and to use their property to advance himself! Www@QuestionHome@Com

it is not a lie to censor yourself, as long as you retain yourself!. it is essential to survival to be able to adapt to different situations, and adaption sometimes includes camouflaging yourself!. you're not the wolf in sheep's clothing, but rather, the sheep in wolf's clothing!. i too have to watch my mouth at work, but that doesn't change my self!. as to silence, silence is only lying when it is later denounced!. saying you were against the subject when it first came up doesn't work if you didn't speak up when it did!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Honestly, it depends on what you mean by "censor!."
At times I have to "censor" my thoughts before I speak at work, for example!. Is what I say a lie!? No!. It is simply using tact and keeping myself from getting fired!.
If I'm thinking one thing and saying another, then that is a lie!.

Outside of work though, I'm honest to the point of brutality at times!. It's the only way to live with yourself!. After all, the only person you have to answer to is yourself and whatever higher power you may or may not believe in!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Truth you dont want it yes truth is the lie if you really think the truth is the only thing that could make the world a greater place your a really dumb person and i will get everyone an exaple say your walking down the street see someone with downsindrom are you going to tell them they are retarted or keep walking not saying anything but think alot more then you should what if that person talked to you do you put on a smile and play nice or just keep walking well some people are going to stop withing being asked but still lie to anwser the question yes lieing is the best thing in this world cuz if everyone told the truth and everything on there mind everyone would be alone dead or hate everything and everyone some people say i always tell the truth or whats on there mind there just ***** or dikes you cant justify hurting people or things by telling the truth sometime in someplace there is a call for it but there are always ways of doing things by saying them without truth all you need is to think more talk less honisty is key be honist with your self and to others honer respect for man thanks JIWww@QuestionHome@Com

Intentions will be the judge of any hidden thoughts or any thoughts that turn to action!. It may be cruel to one person to hide such things but in the eyes of the person who hides these things, they may have the best of intentions and mean no harm by these very thoughts!. So really it boils down to the intentions of the one having the thoughts!.
Sarah R!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i say yes not every thought that enters your mind should be spoken out loud true or not!. You were given two ears but only one mouth !. think about this god spoke the world into existence we are made in his image and he has given us the power to curse or bless with our mouth !.so as a man ( or woman) thinks so they become!. Satan is the father of lies but the greats lies told are 90% truth! I say with everyone and every situation to use wisdom that comes from the one above, this way what does it matter what another man thinks after all that person does not hold eternity in his or her hands!.!.!.!.!. philosophy and politics and human opinion matters not! just thank god that we have the great privilege's to freedom of speech and the right to question !. Www@QuestionHome@Com

A Truth That's Told With Bad Intent, Beats All The Lies You Can Invent!.Www@QuestionHome@Com