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Flame-thrower
Thank you and God bless you, too.
posted by
avant-garde
on May 30, 2006 at 3:09 AM
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Wiley
I must admit that when I read your comment, I didn't quite understand it- until I read my piece again. Yes, you're right. All psychopaths tend to think that they are innocent and a 'victim' of what others are doing to them. Perhaps that is why so many prisoners claim innocence!
posted by
avant-garde
on May 30, 2006 at 3:09 AM
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Whacky
I would daresay that conflict within oneself is the prerequisite to war with others.
posted by
avant-garde
on May 30, 2006 at 3:07 AM
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Blanche
You have unusual perceptions about relationship. I, too, can be quick and to the point when I feel I need to be.
posted by
avant-garde
on May 30, 2006 at 3:07 AM
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Your post can be source of many intepretations. As poetic as it looks you alone know the real message you want to transmit. All the same, it is quite instructive. remain blessed
posted by
Flame-thrower
on May 30, 2006 at 2:26 AM
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Thanks for reading and commenting. I have noted your striking question and very christian way of looking and man's reaction and was very impressed. God Bless.
posted by
Flame-thrower
on May 30, 2006 at 2:23 AM
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avant-garde
Isn't that how a psychopath thinks??
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posted by
WileyJohn
on May 29, 2006 at 6:09 PM
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You can't e at war with yourself...can you?
posted by
Whacky
on May 29, 2006 at 2:26 PM
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Avant-Garde,
Believe me, I do ask that question, and I like that quote, too. I ask that all in the time in respect with my relationship with my boyfriend, and he and I work to make our relationship work. Lest I take myself or anything else too seriously.
However, I let a lot of things slide, but some things just stick in my craw and I think they need to be spelled out for what they are. After that, though, I'm done.
posted by
Blanche.
on May 29, 2006 at 1:33 PM
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malcolm
Hi! It's good to hear from you. You are right, my friend.
posted by
avant-garde
on May 29, 2006 at 1:04 PM
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Blanche
I like the question, 'Do you want to be right, or happy?' Sometimes, convictions are the very thing that keep us from asking this of ourselves.
posted by
avant-garde
on May 29, 2006 at 1:03 PM
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Straightforward
Yes, that is it exactly. Sounds like a good person. I'm sorry for your loss.
posted by
avant-garde
on May 29, 2006 at 1:00 PM
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shelly
I see that it is particularly appropos right now. Thank you.
posted by
avant-garde
on May 29, 2006 at 12:59 PM
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blackcat
Thanks.
posted by
avant-garde
on May 29, 2006 at 12:58 PM
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I've missed reading
your words each day. They help me in the way that only words can. On the subject of causes, I guess because is the word. Just being is sometimes enough and so much of the striving unnecessary. Sometimes the answers are right in front of us or, sadly, just behind us, never to return. I'm working hard on being right now.
posted by
malcolm
on May 29, 2006 at 10:47 AM
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Avant-Garde,
Projecting outward onto others what one most fears to look inside to see, imho, is a deep-rooted cause of conflict, in the micro and macrocosms, ther personal and political spheres.
Innocence and guilt are relative, I believe, no one is either. When I take responsibility for myself, look at the inward causes for my actions, the less I am prone to want to project that onto someone else, but the less I am also willing to be someone else's scapegoat as well. It does take two to tango, but at times, I feel necessary to dance my part, out of my own convictions.
posted by
Blanche.
on May 29, 2006 at 10:04 AM
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I once had a friend who told me that the problem with the world is
their commitment to something from which they refuse to waver under any circumstances. and, he continued if two people are committed to two varying points of view and are determined to see their views through, then can there be anything but war? Of course I do know that economics and political power has a lot to do with the war, but all the same, there was a point in what this friend was saying, i thought. Bless his soul. He died two years ago.
posted by
Straightforward
on May 29, 2006 at 8:20 AM
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good timing on this one...
posted by
shelly_b
on May 29, 2006 at 8:04 AM
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nice job on this one. : )
posted by
-blackcat
on May 29, 2006 at 6:44 AM
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bel
Thank you!
posted by
avant-garde
on May 29, 2006 at 6:38 AM
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Very Fitting For The Day
posted by
bel_1965
on May 29, 2006 at 6:34 AM
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