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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (45299)	7/13/1999 12:39:00 AM
From: jpmac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

>>We can all choose to respond any way we elect<< That sums it up well, Michael. And when we respond in a way that we wish we hadn't, to try and learn from that and slowly cut down on the times we regret the words we say, or the way that we say them. Those "tones" can be as important as the words themselves.

To: greenspirit who wrote (45299)	7/13/1999 11:23:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

We can all choose to respond any way we elect. Would that that were true. But it isn't. Verbal abuse is often more damaging to the psyche than physical abuse. What people say DOES make a difference. If when you were growing up your parents had consistently told you that you were stupid, that you were useless, that the world would be better off if you were dead, you would be a different person than you are now. Only words. But words DO injure. Words were used during the 1940s and 1950s to suppress black people just as much if not more than physical acts. It is easy to say that we can choose to respond any way we want to. But it isn't true.