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Well, I would have posted this earlier, but I've been working the last few days and wanted to give it proper focus, my previous post was reactive and not how I would have liked to have responded. In response I started a new topic over in Conversation: Cynicism vs Critical Thinking...
Specifically though, I really was not trying to garner sympathy, in the first case I was simply trying to, with a bit of levity, give some context to my original post, and secondly I was trying to point out that your post, Fear, strikes me as just mean spirited, you can reduce anybody's words to a ridiculous cliche and then dismiss them, but is that really useful?
And, Talks to Strangers, I meant no offense, I was told by a councilor that I am probably bi-polar, she put me on a waiting list to see an actual therapist to get a diagnosis, but that didn't pan out, and to be honest I didn't push it, I'm a little leery of therapists- my mother committed suicide with anti-depressants (it was back in the early 80's, so anti-depressants were really nothing more than tranquilizers) while under the "care" of a therapist- now, I'm not stating this as a "oh pity me" thing, it was a long time ago, but it does inform where I'm coming from and has influenced my perspective in some things, again, just trying to offer some context for things...
I agree that this topic doesn't have much clarity- is it supposed to be humorous or is it supposed to be serious? My rather poetic response was meant to straddle that line, however unsuccessful I was at it- and Lady in a Pear Tree, it was meant to illicit a bit of a giggle- so, I'm not going to run away just because someone called me a bad name, I'll stick around and see if I can find a half decent conversation- lord knows that can be a bit hard to find on the net sometimes :-/ |
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