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The mindset you describe totally accounts for hypochondriacs.
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
 
 
In a message dated 10/25/2008 5:12:35 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
Clansgian AT wmconnect.com writes:



> >People don't want advice, they want  reinforcement.
> 
> 

This sums it up rather neatly.   What people want is reinforcement, and they 
want it not only over advice  but also over facts, logic, and their own 
experience and  observation.

Consider most personal blogs and even most email lists,  they consist an 
endless train of "oh, you are so right, you are so  wonderful".  If anyone 
dares 
say, "Eh, wait a minute, don't the  numbers show that ...., isn't it logical 
that 
... don't we always find in  these cases that ....."   such comenter is the 
Devil encarnate  being judgemental, suppressive, and p*ssing on someone's 
cherished  dreams.

If anyone wants to deal in anything that can be remotely  constued as advice, 
they must be prepared to be loathed, dispised, and  called everything but a 
Child of God because of it even by those who  eventually take the advice .... 
*especially* by those who eventually  realize the truth of the matter and 
take the 
advice.

There is some  forgiveness to be had for those who give bad advice.  There is 
none  for those whose advice turns out to be  correct.

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