In legal parlance, it's called hearsay. It can also be called second-hand knowledge, "they" said, gossip, rumor, "I heard it by the grapevine", half-truth, spin, opinion, idle chatter, scuttlebutt.......you get the point. What it usually means is.......don't believe everything you hear.
More and more, it is hard to really get to The Truth of anything. Everyone has an opinion, an axe to grind or a pet peeve. There are no absolutes anymore, it seems, and people speak their mind under the protection of "freedom of speech" and they show little concern for who they hurt, slander, libel or defame. The Courts are all over the
place on what's "legal", "constitutional" or "protected" and between right and wrong there is sometimes no distinction.
If it feels good, do it. Live for the moment. My way or the highway. Like it or lump it. Do you know who you're talking to? Whatever! If you don't like it, you know what you can do with it. You get the point.
The times they are a changin' and not for the better. It's getting harder every day to say or do anything without offending someone and what was part of our history is being erased so as not to condone what someone once held as sacred.
I don't know how we will ever get back on the same page, come to agreement on important issues or just plain.....get along. Before we implode as a nation, we need to do SOMETHING. Too many of our leaders are being manipulated or are not leadership quality. I wish I knew the answer, but even if I did........would it be thought of as just hearsay by the "powers that be" ? GOD..........You know the answer. HELP US.
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