the better way to tell the truth?

[donq]

Last Saturday night, I had a chance to meet and had a dinner with Martha, AP journalist/writer who got the Pulitzer Prize twice. She was so nice and really had no ego. Her friend had arranged this meeting and I was lucky to be one of those who were invited there, too.

Before we met, while I was sitting there, waiting, a waiter came to say hi to me. As I didn't want him to try too hard, I said, "It's okay. I'm also Thai". He seemed to be confused. So I tried again, to break the ice by asking him (in Thai) about the menu. He looked even much more confused. Lucky for me that another waitress who happened to stand right there said, "Sorry, sir. He's is not Thai"
Sometimes communication is really a mess. lol

Because of this awkward experience so I changed my tone when I asked Martha about the following question. She said somewhere that "we (journalists) are not brain surgeon and this is not life and death stuff." I asked her that, if that is the case, if we cannot change anyone (their brains/minds), why bother to tell the truth in the first place?
She replied that, we still hope that we could save some lives. That's all.

As we just met and I was in the context that I could not talk about spirituality with her or it might spoil that meeting and I might never be invited again. hahaha

My point is communication is always the hard stuff to deal with. Then, is there the better way to tell the truth? No? Or speech is silver, silence is gold?  

[gruntal]

For better of worst I am often the one acting as the anchor in the chat room here. Well I do seem to have talents on the keyboard that disguise how pathetic I can be in real life. What is more then a feeble grunt appears most eloquent when you see it in writing!

But more to the point is if I even know what I am talking about or have anything valid to say. It would seem I do. But I find things spiritual hard to express because it is all an enigma and not at all simple and straight forward. A person recently got very mad at me and suggested I didn't even know the English language very well. He suggested some Web sites for therapy. Maybe he thought I was drunk or mentally impaired. What never occurred to him was that there might be something wrong with him and his understanding of things and rather I should stoop to his level of simplistic ignorance.

At some level we have things to share but at another level we are not required to cast our pearls before swine. This has been the Rosicrucian motto for ages: some will understand and some are not ready. At some level that sounds very arrogant. At another level it is just sound self protection. You can not hide the truth from one willing to accept it even as you can not force one to accept it if they have already decided otherwise.

[gwutzi]

That all depends if you can yield the situation into letting the water cascade into the cup without breaking the fall, simply meaning to not heighten the atmosphere beyond its breaking point; as well as verbally communicate without an ounce of religiosity and bondage towards a new friend or stranger. If you can do that, u may or should speak up. Else wise its a Russian rollet, by a 50 50% chance she might be receptive enough to take it as it comes.
Perhaps listen to a Q, if there is any in conversations previous, or a necklace or anything to give you a sense of her being compelled to, so to ease the ice.

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