The Socrates Triple Filter Test...

In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem.

One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?"

"Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything, I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called

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THE TRIPLE FILTER TEST..."

"TRIPLE FILTER?"

"That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you're going to say. That's why I call it the triple filter test."

"The first filter is TRUTH. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"

"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and..."

 

'All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of GOODNESS. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?"

"No, on the contrary..."

"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, but you're not certain it's true. You may still pass the test though, because there's one filter left: the filter of USEFULNESS. Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?"

"No, not really."

"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?"

Friends, use this triple filter each time you hear loose talk about any of your near & dear friends.

DOST YEH STORY HUM LOGO KE LIYE HAI.........

Once PVNR (PV Narasimha Rao), L.K.Advani and Laloo Prasad Yadav were

travelling in an autorickshaw. They met with an accident and all three of 

them died.

Yama Raja was waiting for this moment at the doorstep of death.

He asks PVNR and Advani to go to HEAVEN.

But, for Laloo, Yama had already decided that he should be sent to HELL.

Laloo is not at all happy with this decision. 

He asks Yama as to why this discrimination is being made. All the three of

them had served the public. Similarly, all took bribes, all misused public

positions, etc.

Then why the differential treatment? 

He felt that there should be a formal test or an objective evaluation before

a decision is made; and should not be just based on opinion or pre-conceived

notions.

Yama agrees to this and asks all the three of them to appear for an English 

test.

TEST 1:

PVNR is asked to spell 'INDIA' and he does it correctly.

Advani is asked to spell 'ENGLAND' and he too passes.

It is Laloo's turn and he is asked to spell 'CZECHOSLOVAKIA'. 

Laloo protests that he doesn't know English.

He says this is not fair and that he was given a tough question and thus

forced to fail with false intent.

Yama then agrees to conduct a written test in Hindi (to give another chance 

assuming that Laloo should at least feel that Hindi would provide an equal

platform for all three).

TEST 2:

PVNR is asked to write 'KUTTA BOLA BHOW BHOW'. He writes it easily and

passes.

Advani is asked to write 'BILLY BOLI MYAUN MYAUN'. He too passes. 

Laloo is asked to write 'BANDAR BOLA GURRRRRR....'.

Tough one. He fails again.

Laloo is extremely unhappy.

Having been a student of history (which the other two weren't),he now 

requested for all the 3 to be subjected to a test in history

Yama says OK but this would be the last chance and that he would not take

any more tests.

TEST 3:

PVNR is asked: 'When did India get Independence?'. He replied '1947' and 

passed.

Advani is asked 'How many people died during the independence struggle?'...

He gets nervous. Yama asked him to choose from 3 options: 100,000 or 200,000

or 300,000.

Advani catches it and says 200,000 and passes.. 

It's Laloo's turn now.

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Yama asks him to 'Give the Name and Address of each of the 200,000 who died

in the struggle'. [:P].

Laloo accepts defeat and agrees to go to HELL...

Moral of the story:  "IF YOUR MANAGEMENT HAS DECIDED TO SCREW YOU, THERE IS NO ESCAPE......So be Prepared!!"