Accusing someone of hypocrisy, people often use the name of the Roman god Janus, who, as everyone knows, had two faces, which means two mouths and four eyes.For those who are not familiar with ancient mythology, may have the impression that this celestial represented treachery and mendacity, but it is not.Janus was the god of good, it symbolized the beginning and end, as well as helping to find the inputs and outputs.Even in its "zone of responsibility" is chaos, but it is the starting material for any order.Why is that?Yes, because more of it is not to do anything else.
pagan polytheism, in the former Roman Empire, the state religion, meant that the gods are many, they form a governing body with a rigid division of labor and a certain hierarchy.In this structure, Janus is not the last.Therefore, not every two-faced man deserves flattering definition.
Generally speaking, any member of the public at some point in their life plays some role, and Shakespeare was right, calling the whole world theater, and people - the actors in it.If you come back to the ancient times, the tradition of theater in ancient Greece prescribed performers wear masks, which guessed their roles.So it is today, the only creative professionals use their own faces, expressing the whole gamut of facial expressions of emotions dictated by the nature of the character of the executable.But can we say that every actor - two-faced person?
Our life is full of rituals, each of which includes a variety of elements necessary for the execution.Even if some of the participants of the ceremony, whether happy or sad, does not share the feelings prescribed situation, he is forced to obey a general order and give their own expression face appropriate time.He "wears a mask", and everything is going his way.And if someone tries to remove it, he was immediately accused of callousness, cynicism and the disregard of decency.Not only will say that he is - two-faced man: so many years pretending to be decent and that's ...
If behaviors are only two, then on sophisticated tricks, however.Duplicity people - it's not a hypocrite: now cunning is much more look, and they can vary depending on the situation colorings like a chameleon as you move through the jungle.The capacity for such mimicry is partly innate, but most of the increase as to achieve mastery, and have to say about the diversity.
But for simplicity you can accept the hypothesis that serves as the epitome of guile duplicitous man.The definition of what can manifest counterparts in respect of certain cunning, in general, the procedure is simple, but it will take some time.So, the first sign of duplicity - unfulfilled promises.The second criterion - the ability to lie.And the third - the inability to justify their confidence.At least three of these symptoms recommended to pay attention to the outstanding Bashkir writer and scholar Rizaitdin Fakhretdinov.However, people, wise life experience, and can quickly determine what is before them duplicitous person to do so, they sometimes enough to look into his eyes.Those who want to learn to understand the nature of deceit and falsehood signs of his youth, will be useful book by Alan Pisa "Body Language".
