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>It is absolutely amazing the number of ways beekeepers
>individually or regionally can calculate losses or production -
>discussion for another day.
"First Liar Never Had a Chance"
That's what a beekeeper said to me years ago and I have never forgotten.
I don't think that the reason beekeepers lie to one another constantly is
so much that they intend to deceive others (although there are some
where that is the definitely the case) but rather that they have themselves
first and believe what they are saying., at that moment at least.
If we don't constantly monitor our own impressions, we never see that in
action, but it is very real. We remember selectively and sometimes forget
details which would cast the experience in a totally different light.
We deceive ourselves constantly, and that may be a good thing. If many
of us faced the bald truths, we might quit beekeeping immediately.
What happens is that much of the time we see what we want to see or
what we expect to see. One of the reasons I keep a public diary is to
reveal how what we think we are seeing is not what is there.
That is also why I write here and why I don't mind at all, and am even quite
pleased if people attempt to disillusion me by pointing out oversights and
errors in my logic.
If I defend a position strongly, it is only because I want to hear the other
side(s) of the question.
I recall years ago I had a friend with whom I used to argue beekeeping.
Every year we would debate some point and the next we would each
discover that we had converted the other on some point and were each
doing the opposite to what we had been debating without any awareness
it had happened until then.
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