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Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.
Try to be honest, for Allah is the helper of honest people. Avoid telling lies since it will ruin your faith. Know that honest people are on the verge of nobility and honor, while liars are on the verge of collapse and destruction. Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty.
Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one. In many ways, honesty and truthfulness always comprise the first step for a religious pluralist, someone who believes that all Faiths have similar spiritual teachings in common. Those two fundamental human tasks—telling the truth and knowing the truth—have a close, symbiotic relationship to one another.
When you tell the truth, you practice the essentially spiritual skill of knowing it first. When you lie, either to others or to yourself, you blur the boundaries of the truth. Lying robs you of that internal truth-recognition barometer we all naturally have from childhood, and diminishes your ability to recognize the truth when you see it: Consider that the worst of all qualities and the most odious of all attributes, and the very foundation of evil, is lying, and that no more evil or reprehensible quality can be imagined in all existence.
It brings all human perfections to naught and gives rise to countless vices. There is no worse attribute than this, and it is the foundation of all wickedness. So this privilege and duty of truth-seeking, incumbent on all people, gives us each the responsibility to not only tell the truth but to find it. What does it mean to investigate reality? It means that man must forget all hearsay and examine truth himself, for he does not know whether statements he hears are in accordance with reality or not. Wherever he finds truth or reality, he must hold to it, forsaking, discarding all else; for outside of reality there is naught but superstition and imagination….
In a deposition, this is problematic. First, if you do not listen to the entire question, you will not know what is actually being asked, and you may be answering more than the question calls for. Second, the question itself could be objectionable.
If you begin to answer before the attorney asking the question is finished, your attorney will not have an opportunity to object. Waiting a few seconds for the question to conclude before answering allows your attorney to object.
Listen to the Objection Unlike a courtroom where the judge issues a ruling on an objection and may decide that you do not have to answer, you will have to answer objectionable questions unless your lawyer advises you not to during your deposition. But your attorney's objection to a question is your cue that there is something wrong with the question and that you should give a cautioned response.
You may also ask the attorney to repeat or rephrase the question. Don't Guess at What the Lawyer is Thinking Lawyers are human despite lawyer jokes to the contrary and can ask sloppy or confusing questions.
It is absolutely acceptable to say that you do not understand the question. You can also ask the attorney to rephrase. You Don't Need to Have all of the Answers Witnesses sometimes feel compelled to have an answer to every question, but answers are not required if you don't know, you can't remember, you would have to guess, or you would have to speculate.
If you don't tell the truth, you are guilty of what is called perjury and, if so, you are in trouble. There are even many legal documents that have you sign " I like this topic, for various reasons. First of all, because I am a truthful person.
I don't believe in lying, and I am offended when people lie to me. It's as though they don't respect me as a person so they'd rather give me some malarkey rather than be honest with me. Also, I'm a Rotarian. We have a "code" that Rotarians live by called The 4-Way Test. The purpose of The 4-Way Test is to evaluate that "in all we think, say, and do.
Being truthful and honest is so important to The 4-Way Test that it is statement While there are three other statements we have to pass to comply with The 4-Way Test, consider that if your thought or action doesn't pass statement 1, what's the point of continuing? In other words, if it isn't TRUE, does anything else matter? Stewart entitled Tangled Webs which explores how high-profile cases of perjury are not only undermining our judicial system, but in some ways, the very fabric of our society.
Stewart talks about several "celebrity" cases in which celebs who perjure themselves on the stand in court are rarely held accountable, even though people know they are lying.