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Liam1965 wrote: ... Yeah, what are true friends for, if it's not for annoying you until you blow.

Liam, true friend to a lot of people.

Liam,

If pissing people off is a sign of friendship, then apparently I have so many friends, all clamouring for my sage abuse.

And here I thought I didn't have any friends!!
Thanks for setting me straight!


Linda, who only has friends in low places

LDuyer wrote:

Liam1965 wrote: ... Yeah, what are true friends for, if it's not for annoying you until you blow.

Liam, true friend to a lot of people.

Liam,

If pissing people off is a sign of friendship, then apparently I have so many friends, all clamouring for my sage abuse.

And here I thought I didn't have any friends!!
Thanks for setting me straight!


Linda, who only has friends in low places

I am sorry you wanted a forum? That is down the hall in 12a. This is Abuse. Stupid Git...


Mike randomly makes reference to Monty Python Argument Sketch

Mikesus,

That Argument Sketch link is SO hysterical!
I'd never seen that Monty Python sketch before.
That really got me chuckling.
So very clever!



Linda

"Well, do you want to have just one argument, or were you thinking of taking a course?"

SWS --

Check this out:

http://www.stressbusting.co.uk/articles/therapies.asp


Ever heard of "smudging"?
Ha!
Maybe you should try it to cure your bruxism!



Linda

According to the link:

Smudging is "using smoke from the burning of herbs" to relieve stress.


I thought people who do this are called Potheads.

Personally, I don't understand the need for the term "smudging" in the first place.

Afterall, people have been burning incense for years. What's so new about "smudging," right?


L.

SWS --

I was thinking (always a dangerous thing for me) about you saying how you rationalize your stress away.

I think of you as a critical thinker (not in any dull way; you're a humorous critical thinker). I thought of you as I read Sumner's quote:

http://www.criticalthinking.org/


Linda

SWS --

I thought these definitions (from the above link) interesting:


Intellectual Courage: The willingness to face and fairly assess ideas, beliefs, or viewpoints to which we have not given a serious hearing, regardless of our strong negative reactions to them. This courage arises from the recognition that ideas considered dangerous or absurd are sometimes rationally justified (in whole or in part), and that conclusions or beliefs espoused by those around us or inculcated in us are sometimes false or misleading. To determine for ourselves which is which, we must not passively and uncritically "accept" what we have "learned". Intellectual courage comes into play here, because inevitably we will come to see some truth in some ideas considered dangerous and absurd and some distortion or falsity in some ideas strongly held in our social group. It takes courage to be true to our own thinking in such circumstances. Examining cherished beliefs is difficult, and the penalties for non-conformity are often severe.


Intellectual Humility: Awareness of the limits of one's knowledge, including sensitivity to circumstances in which one’s native egocentrism is likely to function self-deceptively; sensitivity to bias and prejudice in, and limitations of one's viewpoint. Intellectual humility is based on the recognition that no one should claim more than he or she actually knows. It does not imply spinelessness or submissiveness. It implies the lack of intellectual pretentiousness, boastfulness, or conceit, combined with insight into the strengths or weaknesses of the logical foundations of one's beliefs.


Linda

LOL!

You guys are a real pleasure! As soon as I sat up in bed this morning I rejoiced that I finally felt as if I could go through a productive day of venting anger. Then I sat down to my computer and read this thread. So much for productive anger! I'm still laughing... But that's supposed to be highly therapeutic too!

Linda, thanks for all those links. You'll have me reading until sometime next fall. However, I'm still trying to muster up enough intellectual courage to open up that last link. But each time I get close to opening it I get to thinking, "Nah! What on earth could mere text possibly teach me?" What was that second concept, by the way?

heheh...never a dull moment here.

Linda, thanks for those links! I was a'skeered to open EITHER of them; but you know about me, curiousity, and the cat.

Life is tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think....
- someone

Life is tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think....
- someone

Sorry didn't log in...I was crying and laughing...

-SWS wrote: ..... I'm still laughing... But that's supposed to be highly therapeutic too!

SWS --

Well, I'm glad I got you to laugh so as to release some of that stress that might be causing your bruxism.

The check's in the mail.


Linda,
just call me Dr. Laugh
or, Dr. Butt-of-a-joke

FYI -- I'm just practicing adding pics to the messages. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Thought I'd leave this one up. It's one of my favorite paintings. I forget the artist. Makes me want to be at the beach!

Linda