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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (54405)	8/12/2002 9:47:30 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

JC: You really ought to know better. X loves to pile on. If it's an issue that she can link to her own personal shortcomings in order to excuse them (like her defense of CH or her gifted bragging), she explodes it. Perhaps you are trying to fit in with what you believe is the intelligentsia - X, Neo, CH, kholt, Rogers. I predict that as soon as some of those folks start picking on you for your religious views, you'll be warring with them again. Maybe Neo needs a break. He's got 50,000 posts in 3 years. I hope he sticks around, but that is his call and it won't be because anyone coerced him into making the decision... The proposition that the CH/Poet situation and this one are in any way comparable is, quite frankly, preposterous.

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (54405)	8/12/2002 9:49:22 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

:-) I like to hear about interesting ailments. Kholt posted a VERY intriguing story regarding "fish ear" recently. If you ever get anything like that I'd love to here all about it. But regular aches and pains do get a bit boring. I don't think we have to be discreet and circumspect, as long as we don't mind our lives being an open book. Some people have more things they need to keep hidden, than other people do. I think the trick is to know what kind of life you have. Do you have the kind where you could stand the public revelation of what you tell your "friends" or "acquaintances", or do you not? Every person with whom we deal has the potential to turn into someone who would want to do us harm. A great percentage of people never fulfill that potential, but to ignore the possibility is indeed to have missed a step in the growing up process. I tell my children not to tell anyone at school ANYTHING they wouldn't want the whole school to know. Goes for adults as well.

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (54405)	8/12/2002 9:50:32 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

If we somehow grow to be adults without realizing that we need to be discrete and circumspect about what we reveal of ourselves to other people ... well, then we have not been very observant in our growing up, nor are we learning from our experiences. I have a flip-side argument on that subject. I'm a very open person. Becoming so was a conscious decision a few decades ago, so I have a little different perspective. One advantage of being open is that you can't do things you would be ashamed to have people know. It would create too much internal conflict. Being personally open also tends to decrease one's taste for gossiping. It pretty much destroyed mine. I hope I didn't impose upon you too much talking about my self-help efforts. I shall spare you a report of the physical aches I'm about to work out in the pool. <g>