From erthnsky AT bellsouth.net Thu Nov 6 10:18:06 2008Return-Path: <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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