Posted Sep 29, 2002 by Hopeful_monster
Most of the threads I have read so far seem to imply that there is 'The Truth' which is pure and universal. This is not the case, for example in an incindent with some of my friends, a few days after i heard three diferent accounts of what had happened. All these acounts were true, yet none were the same.
There is no white truth, or if there is it is so rare it could almost be discounted, but black lies are more common than hot dinners. All we can do is get the lightest shade of grey we can find.
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Posted Oct 1, 2002 by milo
It is characteristic of committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them, and that every member’s recollection of them differs violently from every other member’s recollection. Consequently we accept the convention that the official decisions were those and only those which are officially recorded in the minutes by the officials, from which it follows with an elegant inevitability that any decision officially reached will be officially recorded in the minutes and any decision not recorded in the minutes was not officially reached even if one or more members believe that they recollect it, so in this particular case if the decision had been officially reached, it would have been officially recorded by the officials in the minutes ... and it isn’t so it wasn’t
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