On 28 Mar 2005 06:19:15 -0800, "catfish"
 wrote:

>>And you have the gall to call others narrow minded.
>
>No. Narrow-minded is blaming everyone else for what's wrong with us
>instead of looking in the damned mirror and addressing the real
>problem. Which is almost always ourselves.
>
>>We are the sum total of our experiences. You  are and I am.... How
>>else do you accounty for the person you have turned into? Did youo
>>learn how to be the person you are from a book? Did you listen to a
>>tape?? Perhaps you believe that each of us grown into the person we
>>are through some sort of genetic encoding.
>
>>Try reading about cloning sometime.
>
>Cloning!? WTF are you talking about? I'm talking about a very basic
>thing; taking responsibility for yourself.
>
>This turd-breathes problem is HIM!
>
>>Not one "expert" believes that a
>>human being could clone a duplicate of themselves. Why?? Because they
>>could NEVER hope to duplicate all the experiuences that go into making
>
>>up the personality.
>
>Whatever - yeah, avoid the real issue. Like that's gonna make it go
>away. Sit around on your ass blaming everyone else and all the women on
>the planet. That's really fucking sane isn't it?
>
>Catfish

Look. I am not calling this guy a saint. Truth be told I dislike his
railing as much as the next guy.

However, Being of a like cut, I can understand where that anger comes
from. I have been there. If you have never felt that kind of
frustration and disapointment then I am truthfully happy for you. But
in the same breath I am telling you that you can have no real
compassion for the pain he feels either.

If you had any sense of empathy for another human being's pain you
wouldn't constantly be blaming everything on the person that has the
unmitigated foolishness to open their mouths in protest against the
way things have gone for them.

And if you cannot accept the fact that a person is more a product of
their experiences than anything else then you are simply fooling
yourself. Try this exercise. Most people can remember a couple of
pivital moments in their lives. Try thinking about yours and then try
to think how things might be different had one little thing changed or
had the moment never happened.



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