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Why does truth hurt?

Posted by vigorheart • 3/02/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Belief, God, holistic, humanity, meditation, philosophy, religion, scriptures, spiritual, Spirituality

Why does truth hurt us sometimes even though we know it is the truth?

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3/02/09

crpitt

Okay the truth is that your bloody annoying.

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1. 3/02/09
  
  Epicharis
  
  hahahaha!
3/02/09

vigorheart

and that truth hurt..

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1. 3/02/09
  
  crpitt
  
  Better than a kick in the face.
3/02/09

vigorheart

naw.. u failed time..

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3/02/09

fruitcake

The truth only hurts if you let it...

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3/27/09

ariwat

The truth hurts because ignorance is bliss.

Truth is a double edged sword. You either take it for what it is, or you dress it up in a bunch of sparkly stars and tutus.

So, truth CAN hurt. Why do we hurt? That is the real question here.

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3/27/09

morgantj

The truth hurts those that have their own ideas of how they think things "ought" to be that don't always coincide with reality.

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3/27/09

harveyavatar

Truth is the good of intelligence.

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3/27/09

Floormodel

the truth sometimes hurts because we humans are known to dream a little and hope a little and sometimes it's easier to do that than to accept the truth.

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1. 3/28/09
  
  vigorheart
  
  I feel that truth is a perception that one holds about something and the stronger the perception the stronger the hurt..
4/30/09

rodaniels

It only hurts sometimes.

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4/30/09

FatX

It doesn't hurt me.

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4/30/09

jafabrit

which truth are you talking about?

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4/30/09

drjay1966

I came up with a really clever comment about this very subject yesterday on a different thread (the swine flu/rapture one) and it got removed by the community....

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1. 4/30/09
  
  cookingasshole
  
  stupid community...post it again!
5/02/09

AkinNuAn

Because people cannot handle the present or 'The Now'. They turn to the past for faith that their future will be better than 'The Now'.

It's why many people turn to religion at a time of crisis. Once we've crossed that line, the mind simply does not want to hear or accept the truth- because it compromises their vision of the future

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5/02/09

timethief

@vigorheart
Why does truth hurt?

Truth (impartial truth) is a concept we abstract from personal experience with true-false propositions. IMO the ability to discern truth from falsehood is not a mere introspective feeling. To be true it must be something that can be observed, charted, and tested.

Impartial Truth = an intellectual, relational, unified, reliable, universal aspect of reality that we humans can discern in a limited but useful manner.

Useful means that we humans can learn bits of impartial truth, apply aspects of impartial truth to our lives, and work toward making improvements. These improvements are not absolute because human knowledge of the totality of truth is always limited. If we can break away from the confines of our own conceit, we develop a hunger to learn. When we reach this stage, each truth we learn feeds our appetite for more. In this manner we learn truths and continue to seek truth at the same time.

It's my position that if you have an open mind you will continue to learn truth and seek truth throughout your entire life. But of you have closed your mind and embraced a belief system claiming to possess the one and only one truth then you will be begin to dispaly egocentric righteousness (the natural tendency to feel superior in the light of our confidence that we are in the possession of the truth ).

More Truth
The truth is that many of us do not wish to listen to people who think they are in possession of the only truth. And when we speak our truth to those who are determined to share their belief system with us regardless of our obvious rejection, they become hurt because they are operating from a base of egocentricity, evidenced by the following tendencies:

The Human Mind Is Naturally Prone To the Following Egocentric Tendencies
egocentric memory (the natural tendency to "forget" evidence and information which does not support our thinking and to "remember" evidence and information which does)

egocentric myopia (the natural tendency to think absolutistically within an overly narrow point of view)

egocentric infallibility (the natural tendency to think that our beliefs are true because we believe them)

egocentric righteousness (the natural tendency to feel superior in the light of our confidence that we are in the possession of THE TRUTH)

egocentric hypocrisy (the natural tendency to ignore flagrant inconsistencies between what we profess to believe and the actual beliefs our behavior imply, or inconsistencies between the standards to which we hold ourselves and those to which we expect others to adhere)

egocentric oversimplification (the natural tendency to ignore real and important complexities in the world in favor of simplistic notions when consideration of those complexities would require us to modify our beliefs or values)

egocentric blindness (the natural tendency not to notice facts or evidence which contradict our favored beliefs or values)

egocentric immediacy (the natural tendency to over-generalize immediate feelings and experiences--so that when one event in our life is highly favorable or unfavorable, all of life seems favorable or unfavorable as well)

egocentric absurdity (the natural tendency to fail to notice thinking which has "absurd" consequences, when noticing them would force us to rethink our position)
Taken from The Miniature Guide to the Human Mind

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5/02/09

AkinNuAn

Great answer! @ timethief

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1. 5/02/09
  
  timethief
  
  @AkinNuAn
  Thank you.
8/21/09

zein1212

the hurt will be felt if we hurt by someone and ..
and will be felt if we drop or anything

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8/21/09

Guzzo

If it's really the truth, as opposed to what others "think" is the truth, and it hurts you, then it's because you "know" you've done something wrong.

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8/21/09

greencurmudgeon

Because to a certain extent, we all cling to illusions and fictions as a coping mechanism. Our reality is indeed structured by fictions: even the price we pay for a newspaper is based on our perception of a value rather than an actual, scientific measurement. Telling the "truth" can thus shatter the very fabric of our reality, and of course we don't want that.

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1. 8/21/09
  
  XxJamberxX
  
  Well said!
10/25/09

crazyTsu

It is not ALL truth. It is the truth which is unpleasant to you which hurts

How to deal with a hurt? You cannot say, I will punch you and you must stand still. You will surely try to evade my punch. You have to evade it for your own survival

Acknowledging it works, but only when the people around you are a little understanding. So you do have to lie and hide it from others

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10/25/09

HollytheHousewife

Um tweety bird what have u been smoking tonight?

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10/25/09

crazyTsu

Are you stalking me?

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10/25/09

HollytheHousewife

Umm are u stalking me?

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10/25/09

crazyTsu

Yes you are.. stop trying to grab my butt there

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10/25/09

HollytheHousewife

Ummmm I don't think so. I will clip ur wings tho if you keep flying all over this forum to stalk ME

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1. 10/25/09
  
  crazyTsu
  
  Do go to bed before you start dreaming
10/25/09

HollytheHousewife

Well dang I think u just scared ever body off with that damn squaking u do.

Guess I'm gonna go to bed to.....

Sweet dreams BC'ers meet ya by the peach tree

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10/25/09

HollytheHousewife

I am goin to bed really this time,but not bc u say so road runner,bc I'm sleepy...and u wish I was in ur dreams bird brain

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1. 10/25/09
  
  crazyTsu
  
  That will teach you to not stalk me