Kindness

[Patrick]

... Is it okay to lie to a person in order to be kind? ...

My understanding is that this would not be kind anyway. I would call what you are saying here as being pleasant.

"Is it okay to lie to a person in order to be pleasant?"

Lying is not kind or nice, but it might please your interlocutor.

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Pleasant: "Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner."

Kindness: "arising from or characterized by sympathy or forbearance" or "the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate"

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101.8 Questioner: Thank you. Could Ra give information on any way that we could give information to Greta Woodrew as to how to alleviate her present condition of swelling?

Ra: I am Ra. We may only suggest that the honor of propinquity to light carries with it the Law of Responsibility. The duty to refrain from contumely, discord, and all things which, when unresolved within, make way for workings lies before the instrument of which you speak. This entity may, if it is desired by the scribe, share our comments upon the working of the latter entity.

The entity which is given constant and unremitting approval by those surrounding it suffers from the loss of the mirroring effect of those which reflect truthfully rather than unquestioningly. This is not a suggestion to reinstate judgment but merely a suggestion for all those supporting instruments; that is, support, be harmonious, share in love, joy, and thanksgiving, but find love within truth, for each instrument benefits from this support more than from the total admiration which overcomes discrimination.