When we stop and spend some quality time trying to understand ourselves. What we find most of the time is dishonesty.  Not that we go around telling lies, making false promises, little innuendoes, and even go to the point of malicious slander.  But what are our popular examples? In the world of politics it is easier to brand someone a “racist”, than to make a intellectual study of their views and try to understand the underlying motives of the person. In our efforts to be relevant, we search social media for anything that would support the politically correct idea of modernism, and post and repost those thoughts, instead of putting your own ideas.  Advertisers subtlety ply the airwaves with the “greatest and latest”, and have to be followed by a litany of side effects, usefulness, disclaimers and other explanations of the claims.

I ordered a part for my old truck and they charged me immediately, their site says shipping in 2 or 3 days.  No part after a week.  Working through the phone tree and leaving 5 messages, I finally received a response that they would be shipping today.  Promises not kept.

Taxpayers evade their legal obligations. Religionists are hypocritical. Where is the honesty?

There are exceptions in every category I have mentioned, but dishonesty is so common in our modern society that all of us are tempted to practice it. I read the other day about self-checkout systems at stores and the commentator stated, “if you don’t cheat, you are crazy, the loss is so small they would not miss a few things.”  We can well rationalize our conscience, but that is simply dishonesty with ourselves.  It is well possible to get to a point at which our dishonesty overwhelms our better nature. The acts of dishonesty can be simple and easy to forget.  Never-the-less, when we are honest with ourselves that falseness cannot be ignored. 

Honesty with ourselves requires the examination of the why of our lives; the motives of life. We must get to a point where our desire to be honest outweighs any act. 

Honesty with ourselves requires the examination of our motives in all things. Honesty with self, will lead to honesty with others, for all men know that the conscious misleading of others has in its nature dishonesty with one’s self. We all know that every lie leaves us with something to confess or to rationalize. Your decision.

Just thinking. ?