> I do not agree at all. I do not demand that others treat me exactly the > way I need to be treated in order for me to feel good about myself. This > places quite a burden on friends, neighbors and the entire world, and it > does not require me to make any effort at all to understand where other > people are coming from. > > To insist that all others dance in attendance to my emotional wants and > needs places a HUGE demand on the rest of the world. To automatically > assume that the other person sees me as dumb is a construct of my own > thinking designed to keep my demands in place and up front. Nobody lives > between my ears but me. I'm in there all by myself so I cannot blame other > people for what emerges from my own thinking.. > > I may not always agree with what the other person has to say and I may not > even like what the other person has to say, but I'd damned well better > love their RIGHT to say it because I cannot muzzle the next guy without > muzzling myself at the same time. > > We cause as much pain in the world when we take offense as when we give it. > > Faith G
Well put. . . .Faith. . . . As Archie Bunker would say. . . . Case Closed ! Smitty -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
