[Homestead] The longest post yet-Anger
EarthNSky
erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Thu Nov 6 10:18:00 EST 2008
bob ford wrote:
> Bev, years ago a 22 y.o. girl from Georgia named Carson McCullers
> wrote a wonderful story about a deaf-mute who became a boarder in a
> family home in small town Georgia. Everyone in the small town
> eventually became his friend because he would just sit and listen to
> him, he couldn't interrupt, being mute. At the end of the story he
> ends himself with a bullet . He had no-one to listen to him.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is required reading. Good book, and worth
some thought.
>
> Recognize that people do listen to you. You are not going to
> instantly change any minds, on this list, not in macro-situational
> areas like politics.
I know, I know.
> I think mostly what you are aggravated about is that the ideas of the
> left seem to be readily acceted on this list while ideas on the right
> always are often required to offer ten different methods of
> reasoning. That is just a matter of numbers.
Yes.
>
>
> I tend to agree with people on the right more than the left and find
> the right more open to others ideas, but I have big dis-agreements on
> some issues with the right.
As do I.
> You have many long term 'friends' on this list. Talk politics, or
> whatever. State your opinion and stand by what you see as the truth.
> If someone is rude to you, defend yourself, let it go, or ignore them
> for a while until it is forgotten. I have a "***k-it attitude, but
> that is just me. ...bobford
>
> p.s. Your kids pay more attention to what you say than you realize
Thanks, Bob.
--
“Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to
hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yoda
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