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To: Poet who wrote (334)	7/23/1998 10:34:00 PM
From: Joan Osland Graffius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1691

Poet, >>I am, however, concerned about the emotional atmosphere around SI lately. Emotions run ramped when people are loosing money. This is normal and it will get worse if the market continues to loose steam. The "market" has been loosing ground for a while now, it is just the largest of the large cap stocks that carried the indexes to the latest new highs. I am sure very few investors on SI were only invested in these stocks. Take care, Joan

To: Poet who wrote (334)	7/24/1998 10:46:00 AM
From: maria	Respond to of 1691

Hi Poet, Thanks for your response. The atmosphere on some threads does indeed seem to border on paranoia, though I've noticed this only in relation to penny stocks. I guess when you lose a lot of money, human nature is to find someone to blame rather than own up to the fact that you made a wrong call. >> as a professional I do not have the right to make statements of that sort in public << What profession are you in, if you don't mind my asking? Best regards, -M

To: Poet who wrote (334)	7/25/1998 12:07:00 PM
From: Charliss	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1691

Dear Poet, <I am, however, concerned about the emotional atmosphere around SI lately. There are many angry people making false and rather vicious statements.> This concerns me too. Eventually, it all becomes quite complex and confusing, like tangled spaghetti. Then, it takes on a life of its own, this confusion of fear and anger and attack, and as we spend more and more time pursuing this, we begin to identify with this confusion- we all lose more and more of our true selves, what we really are at the core without this insanity... we lose what we could be. I think perhaps we need to choose differently now. Clearly, attack is useless for anything beyond mediocrity. I hope I don't get flamed for taking up this space for what may appear to be an unrelated issue, but here is something I will share with the thread, something from another source. Best, Charliss *** Conflict is sleep, and peace awakening. There must be doubt before there can be conflict. And every doubt must be about yourself. It is only the wish to deceive that makes war. No one at one with himself can even conceive of conflict. Conflict is the inevitable result of self-deception, and self-deception is dishonesty. War is the condition in which fear is born, and grows and seeks to dominate. Peace is the state where love abides, and seeks to share itself. Conflict and peace are opposites. Where one abides the other cannot be; where either goes the other disappears. So is the memory of God obscured in minds that have become illusions' battleground. Yet far beyond this senseless war it shines, ready to be remembered when you side with peace. Only the trusting can afford honesty, for only they can see its value. Honesty does not apply only to what you say. The term actually means consistency. There is nothing you say that contradicts what you think or do; no thought opposes any other thought; no act belies your word; and no word lacks agreement with another. Such are the truly honest. At no level are they in conflict with themselves. Therefore it is impossible for them to be in conflict with anyone or anything.