Is the moral of the Pinocchio story that we should never trust people with long noses, they lie?
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It's a story about the transformative power of love. "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams and William Nicholson is another classic in this vein.
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Long-nosed, large-nosed, prying. However if you want to know about why people are called 'nosey parkers', then read on.\n\nThe most usual origin suggested is the late (the very late) Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Elizabeth I in the sixteenth century. He was a reforming cleric, noted for sending out detailed enquiries and instructions relating to the conduct of his diocese. Like many reformers, he was regarded as a busybody.\n\nHowever, the huge flaw in this suggestion is that the term nosey Parker isn’t recorded until 1907. The term nosey for someone inquisitive, figuratively always sticking their nose into other people’s affairs, is a little older, but even that only dates back to the 1880s. Before then, anyone called nosey was just somebody with a big nose, like the Duke of Wellington, who had the nickname Old Nosey.\n\nOne suggestion, put forward by Eric Partridge in his Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, was that the saying dates from the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Very large numbers of people attended the Exhibition, so there would have been lots of opportunities for peeping Toms and eavesdroppers in the grounds. The word parker has since medieval times been used for an official in charge of a park, a park-keeper; I’ve read that the term was used informally for the royal park-keepers who supervised Hyde Park at the time of the Great Exhibition. So the saying might conceivably have been applied to a nosey park-keeper. It would require the inquisitive sense of nosey to have originated about 30 years before it is first recorded—not impossible.\n\nAnother idea, put forward in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, is that the phrase nosey Parker was originally nose-poker. Poker, in the sense of somebody who pries into another’s affairs, certainly has a long history, well pre-dating the nineteenth century appearance of nosey Parker. It’s not impossible that nose-poker became modified with the second element being converted into a proper name. Stranger things have happened. But evidence is suspiciously lacking: the Oxford English Dictionary has no record of nose-poker anywhere and I can’t find an example.\n\nBut all this is the purest supposition. The evidence isn’t on record, and the truth will probably never be found.
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I think to an extent, they are silly and arrogant.  However, they do provide some of the basic simple moral building blocks. Be good to others, treat others with respect, do not harm others...etc.  Somewhere they learned to pass judgement on everyone and act as if they are superior...but then again you can learn these moral building blocks from any Dr. Suess or Aesop Fables story.
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it was a straight up lie\n\npeople who value Christian morality (or almost any brand of morality) should be outraged at this type of behavior\n\nthis was obviously planned, he had the sucessor all lined up already!
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Well, it's a good warning of what not to do.  \n   Consider the Shakespeare play Othello.  Othello was actually a pretty cool guy -- strong, honorable, and a very good soldier.  But he didn't know how to pick his friends.  He listened to that lying fukk Iago and believed him rather than his own beloved wife, Desdemona.  \n   It is a good example of the wrong way to live your life.
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These are stereotypes.  The saying asks us not to believe them.\n\nSeems simple enough to me!
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Whatever you do don't "beat around the bush" to say cause it can hurt to not know the truth. Just asked anyone who has ever been lied to.
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kids are studpid... so, it's not wrong to lie to them... too young to understand lies... i tell my kids the tooth fairey will take away teeth from their mouths  \nwhile they sleep if they don't brush and floss each night before going to bed... seems to work... dumb kids
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there are two morals.\n1. don't eat boogers.\n2. don't hit bumps.
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That it is as bad as eating shellfish.  Both are abominations.\n\nHowever, perhaps you shouldn't use a 2,500 year old mythological book from the Bronze age to formulate your morality.
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I think lying is a learned behavior.  If a child grows up in a deceitful environment than they begin to believe that lying is o.k and will constantly do it.
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It depends completely on the nature of the lies and their intent.\n\nIf these are dumb bs lies about background or family...I can probably let it slide.\n\nBut if these are hurtful lies or omissions of behavior, it's hard to build any type of trust on that.
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Hello Hols loves J... :)\n\nNo..because God's word says we are to bring up our children in the ways of our Lord..for us to tell our children about Santa or the Easter Bunny is a lie..so we are disobeying our Lord by telling a miss truth to our precious little children..for a liar will have no place in the Kingdom of Heaven.. :(\n\nIn Jesus Most Precious Name..\nWith Love..In Christ..
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Cud be true to some extent partially or fully. But in anycase everywhere such things happen. It doesnot matter who said but doest it matter to us in reality or is it reflects something in real sense to our real life. Answer to this matters the truth of the story.
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No, because we're too stupid.  People like to vote for charming, charasmatic people.  But those are the type that are dishonest, because if you are honest and upfront people are disappoined in what they hear.  So, they go for the people that lie to them and tell them what they really want to hear.  So, we bring this evil on ourselves.
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i have none,i was taught that only when we can look with in and name those things that are not right with us,can they be made good.i always practice truth,there is no shame in that.
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Most people like to be led around by the nose by someone who seems to be in charge.  They are afraid of taking responsibility for thinking for themselves.\nReal, objective truth is not a matter of belief.  It is a matter of recognizing reality for what it is; A=A, and A does not equal C unless A=B and B=C; and being able to conceptualize it all correctly.\nSometimes, those who are demonized are the ones who look truth in the eye and are not afraid to speak of it; e.g. Galileo Galilei, when he said that the planets revolve around the Sun and not the Earth; and Andrei Sakharov, who dared to speak out against the corruption that is communism.  Those are the people who are the REAL heroes of our world.