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I used to think that it was good to always be honest and to tell the truth. Lately, though, I've realized that there are often several versions of the truth. If you tell someone about an event that you've experienced, you do not say everything about the situation, especially if it happened over a longer time frame. We often use this to make a point about ourselves, make a point about something specific like another person, or make a point in general. As a result, we often leave out bits while talking extensively about minor details in the overall scheme of things. Sometimes, we might exaggerate things or include things that didn't quite happen that way but better support the point that we were trying to make. Depending on the audience and our point, we might have a few different versions of the story. For example, I have both my life growing up poor stories and my life growing up privledged stories. A while back, I provided a summary with both sides for my social class thread but I have told some people exclusively one or the other with slight variations. So what does telling the truth the mean and would you agree, there are actually multiple versions of the truth that we could tell that would still be the truth.
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