0n (08 Oct 06) George Pope wrote to Cindy Haglund...

 GP> On (06 Oct 06) Cindy Haglund wrote to George Pope...
 CH>   Yeah. You can make something depressing look 'cheery' if you regard
 CH>   something sunny as dull I guess. hmm. Okay! and the moon is cheese.

 GP> Now you're stepping out to two whole other topics. . .

 That is your opinion and then again ao wtf if I am?


 GP> 1. making something sunny dull isn't the same as making something
 GP> depressing look cheery. (except that both merely involve perception
 GP> (as I say, "people will buy shit if you bag it and call it
 GP> 'fertilizer'!")

That's your opinion. I know that to some people a tar pit is a
happy place to live only becasue they've known anything else. The only
thing worse than a tar pit is when it rains. A dry tar pit is much
more cherrful.


 GP> 2. "The moon is cheese" is an error in FACT(not merely a
 GP> DIFFERENCE IN PERCEPTION)

It's a joke, you were suppsed to laugh.

 GP> #1 shows why some people are more stressed than others -- stress is a
 GP> SELF-inflicted condition, not one put on you by others or by
 GP> situations.

 Of course it is!!! That's why so many decide not to get mad, ge even!

 Like if somebody keeps putting you on hold on the phone or something.
Do it bacak to them and then you're even steven. lol.

 GP> The EXACT same situation can be stressful for one and joyful for
 GP> another.

 Sure thing! It's a rocks offf power trip to put a caller on hold...


 GP> Take having a killer great white shark come straight for you. . .
 
 GP> To you & I, that'd be stress!

 Yup. To the shark : you're lunch.

 GP> To the National Pornographic photographer in the shark cage, this is a
 GP> delight and the culmination of weeks of work!

 Well sure it must be rocks off not to be able to let tha shark get at
ya... that has to be a joy for the photo and a disapointment for the
poor hungry shark.
                  
 CH>   I have noticed this. When you don't care to answer a question you
 CH> find a way to beat up the poser instead. There is a next key you know.

 GP> My saying that something is a "non-essential[in the greater scheme of
 GP> life]"
 GP> in NO way is beating you up!

 It sounds lke you're trivialtizing.....

 GP> If you chose to take it that way, it's your choice, but you're wrong!

Yah but that doesn't mean you're not doing it. LOL.

Cindy

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