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Duo

Nothing is as good or as bad as it looks. Reality is always somewhere in between. When you listen to 2 very conflicting versions of the same event from 2 different parties, how do you decide what to believe and what to dismiss? That's a tricky situation confronting us very often.

 

It's a dilemma without a solution. We are left with nothing but instinct and discretion to aid us in reaching a verdict which might sometimes be flawed and aberrant.

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Anonymous said…
Before you "decide what to believe and what to dismiss", take time to ask logical piercing questions. It gets you to what to believe and what to dismiss.

And if you cannot, it is simply because you are not asking the right questions.

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