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Dude, if it's not on video it didn't happen.......
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"the truth" is complex, dynamic, overrated and not as black and white as oft opined.
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"I can resist anything but temptation" is one of Oscar Wilde's funnier maxims, but it's not a way to live. This whole story smacks of blaming your weakness on your wife, and I don't accept that. |
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*deleted as non-useful
Last edited by guitarjamman; 07-26-2016 at 05:37 AM. |
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Truth or Consequences? Sometimes you get both for the price of one.
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I value honesty over just about everything. I have no desire to associate with individuals who have difficulty telling the truth.
I think you made the right choice in coming clean OP, even though there were some negative results. All anyone can do is learn from their experiences and keep moving forward.
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seriously, i get your point, but tend to disagree. if i use your definition of truth, then people can rarely know much of what the truth is. most people's "truths" are opinions created out of a mix of observation, reason, trust, belief, anecdotal evidence, faulty memory, emotion, pride, and lots of other things. it's important to separate out the objective "black and white" truth from people's greyer subjective truth. the objective truth can more often than not be unverifiable, such as in this case. i was speaking generally about the nature of knowledge and what can be known, and the subjective side of truth, which is relevant to this thread. eyewitnesses have occasionally been shown to be wrong to varying degrees. but to them, what they observed had every appearance of the objective truth. however, given that they can be mistaken, their heartfelt subjective truth can often be at odds with the objective truth. is the sky blue? does the sun rise every day? did columbus discover america? while i'd answer a soft "no" to each of them, i might have been taught them in school as facts. once you start getting in to complex "truths" such as in whatever was behind, "i told my wife the truth", you're really getting more into a elaborate confession then a verifiable science experiment. and in such a conversation, "what the truth is" may not apply (because you are discussing such things as emotion or motivation for behavior), and things quickly become grey in a number of ways (for example, does the term "Truth" even apply here?). |
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Are we supposed to believe that you expected your wife to accept your choice to dishonor your wedding vows? Unless you left out that your marriage was 'open', then I don't know why you think any sympathy is due to you. Would you feel it appropriate for your wife to take an intimate friend in substitute for you?
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But what happened here was that the OP had sex with another woman. That's the stripped down (!) event. That's the fact. "Cheating" is an emotional, value-ridden judgement that we may choose or not choose to apply to that event. P.S. I typed this before reading mc1's reply. I agree with him on this. Last edited by ewalling; 07-21-2016 at 08:29 AM. |
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My understanding was that he wasn't seeking approval or disapproval, merely questioning the value of always opening up about who we are and/or what we've done.
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(the statements and opinions represented in this post are fictitious and not to be taken as advice) |
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I was betting "Molly" was going to turn out to be a labradoodle.
I'm somewhat loathe to spoil the fun, but after you're all finished piling on in outrage, maybe have a look at our friend's posting record. Some top-notch stuff, including the best classified ever. Last edited by Dirk Hofman; 07-21-2016 at 11:09 AM. Reason: Grammer/iPhone posting problems. |
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This is a wannabe poet's conceit. So is the double entendre of "met": ...that's where I met Molly. I 'met' Molly over 80 times... Repetition again with "truth": Eventually I had to tell her the truth. The darn truth. And the final kicker, phrased to generate outrage, largely because it's an inversion of traditional teaching: Telling the truth is always the RIGHT thing to do. Nope. The OP may or may not be telling a genuine tale of his own experience. Quite possibly is. But he's working on ways of telling it that smack of a songwriter's style and structure. Maybe he means it as a troll. Maybe he's just seeing how folks respond before he crafts the song further. As a writer myself for the past 40 years, that's what I see when I read it. But maybe I'm wrong. Dirk
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Whatever he meant, the thread no longer belongs to him - it's taken on a life of its own!
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