[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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