October 19, 2016 at 12:54 pm

I had noticed that some people are becoming less honest that before. That’s the reason why I cannot trust people for the first meeting. It takes time for me to open up and details are limited. Personally speaking, I lost interest for having best of friends. I had experienced so many bad experiences with these people whom I think they are real friends. Now, I can only offer being casual friends and beyond that, there will be no chance. I considered my best of friends are the creator and my family. What about you, guys?

October 19, 2016 at 8:36 pm

I have to agree with you. It seems people have a hidden agenda most of the time and are not truthful from the beginning. I just don’t understand why someone would play with another person’s emotions for whatever reason. It’s just mean and hurtful. I would never do a person like that. That is why I shy away from certain people. I trust almost no one. Even the person that I thought I could trust ended up losing my trust.

October 19, 2016 at 10:08 pm

Yes i am agree with you.It is very hard now a days to fin true people mostly people are their to cheat with others.So its is very hard to trust when you meet someone new.Because if you trust someone and he hurts you later on its very painful.

October 20, 2016 at 12:36 pm

@evilelf It is also sad to say that some of my relatives cannot be trusted. Some of them had cut the relationship with us after my father’s death. It doesn’t end there. We had also received fabricated stories and tried to pull us down.

@atiqkhanumvi It is really painful and be hurt after the betrayal done by the people whom we thought true to their ways or gestures. In fact, they are not.

October 20, 2016 at 3:29 pm

@shavkat people did not become less honest over night or less friendly in recent times. Times had been bad from what I remember. Some people lie or avoid the truth to protect himself form bad influence, some are dishonest from lack of honesty they grew up , some just avoid to know people better. There is always some reason that defines us. We are not made of stone. I advise being more careful.

October 20, 2016 at 4:50 pm

In these Modern times.. bad things are taking place and people are more in frauds and scams for their personnel gains… so there days People are less honest and cannot be believed soon..

October 20, 2016 at 5:38 pm

In my opinion honesty is overrated, let’s be honest (:P) you won’t be getting rich by being honest. Especially not in my country for example the politicians who are linning their pocket with our hard earned money. And whenever they do get in a scandal, they always seem to get away with it.

October 20, 2016 at 5:59 pm

Well, I have had some similar experiences. But then that is how we learn how to deal with people. We have to be careful when meeting new people. We have to see how they behave in certain situations and then decide whether we need to be good with them or not.

October 20, 2016 at 7:23 pm

@yourseldom I always bear in mind that people change for so many reasons. In my existence in this world, I had also changed after trying to understand the deceptions of others.I didn’t also change just for an overnight. I had learned to be indifferent because of being acquainted with these people. Eventually, I embraced to be more careful as what you had mentioned.

@asma That’s the worst disadvantage of modernization. People changed to commit so many criminal cases and you can name it. I felt bad that these people were not able to maintain their morality in committing such criminal acts.

@kubera I’m not a hypocrite person. My values are far better of what you think. I am an honest person and I don’t want to gain richness out of being dishonest. I am not into politics. Why should I have to degrade myself for such overrated corruptions? That’s the reality in the political system and I think it is not only in your country; it happens around the globe.

@ptrikha15 I do agree with you. We had also learned from this kind of people. We just need to be vigilant and think objectively.

October 20, 2016 at 7:42 pm

@shavkat for clearification i’m not calling you a hypocrite nor am i questioning your values. i believe you when you say you’re an honest person. BUT, everybody tells white lies if somebody claims to never have lied before then 99.99% he is lying right at that moment. Sure it may sound pessimistic but that how i have experienced the world till now (do not feel bad for me, i don’t need your pity 😉 ).

October 20, 2016 at 8:16 pm

This is for me too subjective. Not all people are dishonest. Some but not most of the person who you befriend with. Honesty is a relative quality which a person including yourself may have shown. You are honest in a moment but as the situation so requires you may fool yourself and you may yield yourself to become dishonest.

If you happen to read a book or hear the story of an old man who went around the community carrying with him a lighted oil lamp. Every person he met is asking him if what he is doing. He simply reply that he is looking for an honest man.

October 20, 2016 at 9:13 pm

@kubera Well, you had mentioned about politics. That’s the reason why I reacted about what you had written. White lies are also another story. We can do this act if aiming not to hurt other people. I am respecting your opinion about it. I hope you do the same way.

@nakitakona13 We can experience so much deceitful. I am not generalizing it. Some people are not honest with so many reasons.

October 21, 2016 at 3:32 am

@shavkat you arre not generalizing it but in reality there is no person who is perfectly honest. As I have pointed out he may honest in a second, in a minute, in an hour but not in the rest of his life. Dishonesty or an inclination to be dishonest is a way of life of every people. In like manner as what you have said less honest people nowadays are prevalent. You are right. You may find them everywhere.

The minister of God, the followers of the Lord, the magistrates or the honorable members of the highest court of the land is not by himself an honest person. In the Bible for example, Moses as true believer and an obedient to God’s commandment, told a lie by denying or disowning the beautiful Zipporah not his wife. That is a form of dishonesty. Bible scholar termed it as the white lie. Even then it is till a lie. It is still a form of dishonesty.

October 21, 2016 at 3:43 am

@kubera for the sake of discussion, I know you’re not an honest person perfectly and you’re not a hypocrite as you have said. For I believe you, if any chances are, you are doing good to make everyone feel about you approvingly. In so doing, you feel good too. In my previous discussion I have mentioned that ever since the world begun, no one is perfect and no one is honest. Honesty is virtue which everyone wanted to exercise to make himself looking dignified and with a character of integrity.

You are also right when you said or mentioned about white lies. Telling white lie is compromising one’s character to avoid matter in issue to become bad. It is like a cover up to show to the world that everything is okay. There is nothing to worry about. It is not a permanent in nature. Nevertheless it is tell a lie. It is still a form of less honesty as we use it here.

October 21, 2016 at 7:53 am

@nakitakona13 I am not going to argue the dishonesty of what people do. There are times that we tend to practice such act because we can’t afford to hurt others in the form of white lies. As what @kubera mentioned. Thus, it is being dishonest. As humans, we still do it. There is no perfect world and still being done. I must admit that I had committed such things. However, I tend not to do as much as possible because it is a sin in the eyes of God. There is a difference if the person did it intentionally or not.  Thus, I do agree with you that there is no perfect among us but still we tend to be honest if good conscience comes in into our minds.