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To: tejek who wrote (631501)	10/13/2011 1:58:08 AM
From: TopCat	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1577029

"TC, where do you get off questioning me?" So, which is it? You're either unemployed or you consider yourself self-employed. If self-employed, have you figured out how to pay FICA taxes yet? You asked about that a couple of years ago.

To: tejek who wrote (631501)	10/13/2011 8:58:18 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577029

Great news - there's a Purple Jihad:

To: tejek who wrote (631501)	10/13/2011 9:10:04 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1577029

Something else to stoke the fires of ressentiment: I didn't misspell resentment above - it's a French word: en.wikipedia.org Ressentiment (pronounced /r?s?~ti'm?~/), in philosophy and psychology, is a particular form of resentment or hostility. It is the French word for "resentment" (fr. Latin intensive prefix 're', and 'sentir' "to feel"). Ressentiment is a sense of hostility directed at that which one identifies as the cause of one's frustration, that is, an assignment of blame for one's frustration. The sense of weakness or inferiority and perhaps jealousy in the face of the "cause" generates a rejecting/justifying value system, or morality, which attacks or denies the perceived source of one's frustration. The ego creates an enemy in order to insulate itself from culpability. ...... Currently of great import as a term widely used in psychology and existentialism, ressentiment is viewed as an effective force for the creation of identities, moral frameworks and value systems. ..... Ressentiment is a reassignment of the pain that accompanies a sense of one's own inferiority/failure onto an external scapegoat. The ego creates the illusion of an enemy, a cause that can be "blamed" for one's own inferiority/failure. Thus, one was thwarted not by a failure in oneself, but rather by an external "evil." ......