Something about the importance or value of living honestly/doing something good while never being rewarded for your actions or even recognized for them.
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posted by fartknocker
on Feb 10, 2013 -
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While the rumor is untrue, it touches something I never told anyone- should I spill the beans?
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posted by anonymous
on Jun 25, 2012 -
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On balance if you were to take all the rumors that are published in blogs, newspapers, etc. about business news, celebrity happenings, etc. would the trend be that more rumors end up being true or false?
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posted by 2bucksplus
on Feb 18, 2011 -
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Where is a definitive source (& BTW Mefi post) for the widely held belief that recently the US Supreme Court ruled that a news organisation does NOT have an obligation to tell the truth?
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posted by dash_slot-
on Feb 8, 2011 -
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Should I tell my boyfriend that we're friends with a long-ago ex? My social circle includes a guy that I dated 10 years ago for less than a year. He is now married to someone else, and there's no lingering unresolved business between us. He and his wife are part of my main group of friends, but as they are kind of busy, I don't see an awful lot of them, maybe once a month. Of course my current boyfriend (of 1 year) is always invited and often comes when this group hangs out
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posted by anonymous
on Nov 5, 2010 -
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I have a dim memory of a comment by the authors of a science textbook, stating that they had attempted to avoid making any statements that were not entirely true, and describing how difficult this had been. My attempts to find the quotation with Google, the Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, and Gaither’s Dictionary of Scientific Quotations have all failed. It was probably an undergraduate textbook in physics, chemistry or biology.
posted by James Scott-Brown
on Sep 6, 2010 -
2 answers
I just read
Sex at Dawn. It's a book that, as I understand it, questions an assumption that has held sway for most of recorded history. What other books or ideas question assumptions that span millennia? I'm looking for more well-argued cases that rock my reality and cause me to question and recontextualize, well, everything.
posted by zeek321
on Aug 5, 2010 -
39 answers
My boyfriend feels he can't trust me. I want him to, and I want to make things work, but we need to break this pattern. What now?
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posted by anonymous
on May 11, 2010 -
26 answers
Is there a theory or law (formal or otherwise) that postulates that given enough time, "truth" or "knowledge" is more likely to be understood?
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posted by verevi
on May 6, 2010 -
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I'd like to put together a Wikipedia Accuracy Meter - Perhaps a browser plug-in or a web page that attempts to give an estimate of the reliability of any given article at any given moment. Please come in for discussion of algorithm and technical hoo-ha to help me assess if this is a weekend project or a master's thesis....
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posted by mzurer
on Apr 11, 2009 -
17 answers
Alternatives to the mainstream scientific method that have generated real, practical output.
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posted by ajp
on Mar 17, 2009 -
27 answers
On behalf of my parents, where is a source that they can use to look up short and sweet responses to counter to the attacks on Obama leveled by their Republican neighbors?
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posted by jeanmari
on Sep 4, 2008 -
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How can I determine, with access to limited biological data, if my father is not who I thought he was?
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posted by anonymous
on Jul 5, 2008 -
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I am searching for examples of The Infinite, or the immeasurably large, in our mythologies and archetypes. I am also interested in the categories of Truth which came out of the emergence of Western, ontological thought. Does the trust in a rationally conceivable reality deny us the infinity of the mythological realm? By rooting ourselves in the present, and denying atemporal mythologies, do we also deny the infinite origins from where we came?
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posted by 0bvious
on Nov 28, 2007 -
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran is only seeking "peaceful nuclear activities"; Presidential Candidates contend Iran is seeking nuclear weapons. Which is right? I can't trust sources from my own country (U.S.) What does a more objective (is there such a thing?) view say?
posted by pelican
on Oct 30, 2007 -
25 answers
What single quote is the best introduction (or accurately encapsulates) a philosophy, belief or conviction that you hold? Or alternately, a quote that describes something in a way that gives you a deeper understanding of a particular perspective that you may or may not endorse.
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posted by quadog
on Sep 26, 2007 -
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Should I tell my long-term girlfriend (I'm male) that I have had sex with men in the past?
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posted by anonymous
on Apr 15, 2007 -
65 answers
When I came to I was tied to a chair in the dark basement of what appeared to be a farm house. Across the table was Herr Doktor with a menacing look behind his small circular glasses. He was filling a syringe when he said "Von dose of zee
Sodium Pentothal and ve vill know zee truth!"
"Sodium Pentothal?" I thought to myself, what the hell is that? How does it work and I'm pretty sure there is gonna be
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posted by DragonBoy
on Aug 24, 2006 -
13 answers
What are some things that are taught as History in a college/higher learning setting (as a piece of, or as the whole) that aren't fully supported by facts (such as documents, carbon dating, etc)?
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posted by defenestration
on Aug 11, 2006 -
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Yesterday I got fired from a job I hate, but I'm in the middle of applying for a mortgage and I'm worried this will jeopardize my chances of getting approved. I need to know what I should tell the mortgage broker, if anything, about this whole situation.
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posted by elisabeth r
on Mar 31, 2006 -
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So I've just walked away from a job I'd held for four years where they cheated me out of my earned commissions and now I'm left wondering what sort of danger I would be exposing myself to if I blogged the company and the people involved? I.e. naming names.
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posted by fenriq
on Feb 10, 2006 -
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For some reason I have become incredibly irritated with bad rhetoric. I'm talking about the obvious stuff, like lies told by politicians, but I've also become incredibly frustrated with half-truths and distortions told by groups whose causes I espouse. It's not that I want to be told what to think, I just want to not have to constantly churn through the layers of deception to get answers to even the most basic questions about empirical reality. I wish there was a special newsletter I could subscribe to, written by someone who was generous and smart and at least attempting to fairly describe the problems and solutions.
So, do you have any go-to publications that at least attempt objectivity, without obvious corporate/radical/religious/middle-earthian bias?
[disclaimer: let's not bring up postmodernism]
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posted by mecran01
on Mar 2, 2005 -
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How old were you when you figured out the bad news about Santa? How did you find out? I ask because my 6 yr. old son still believes. Fervently. And sooner or later, I'm gonna have to answer some tough questions.
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posted by Irontom
on Sep 14, 2004 -
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"The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda." (See
link from
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posted by ajr
on Dec 12, 2003 -
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