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To: unclewest who wrote (134124)	8/24/2005 8:51:46 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 793706

Not sure if you realize this. It seems to me you always project the future negatively in your posts. I can't recall ever seeing you zero in and focus on or project a positive outcome. That's interesting. It's interesting that you would perceive that as negativity. I'm trying to interject the counterpoint to what appears to be negative assumptions by posters about this patient. They're assuming she's a whiney jerk. Which she may well be, but then again she may well not be. Illustrating the counter scenario to that negativity is negativity? Taking issue with a doctor who batters her with his determination that she's going do die lonely and loveless is negativity? What we know about this story is that the patient complained to the medical board about some things the doctor said to her regarding his diagnosis of obesity. The knee-jerk reaction to that was that she was a silly, lazy, gluttonous bitch who was offended at being told she was fat and wanted to kill the messenger rather than take what was considered to be good advice and clean up her act and heal herself. The flip side of that is that she is a desperate or depressed woman for whom nothing worked and she is being admonished for being too flawed and too fat to be loved, an admonishment that could drive her to suicide. Either story fits the facts as we know them. Which of the extremes is more "negative"? Jumping to a negative conclusion is negativity. Trying to disabuse that rush to negative judgment is not. Pot calling the kettle "black," I say. Methinks that you define "negativity" as anything that counters your own "thinking" on a subject. As for my "always" projecting negative futures, you've got to be kidding. Aren't I the one who is always pointing out how people overreact to risks, like the risk of Islamists blowing them up? Or Democrats or moderate Republicans winning an election? Or that the country is going to hell in a handbasket in various ways? LOL. Negative projecting is an enduring trait of Democrats. Makes me wonder why, then, I have to get away from this thread periodically to keep it from sucking all the good karma out of my environment...

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