Letters to the Editor
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Heinlein
You may be right, Aycharaych, but my own textual analysis -- coupled with some hearsay about Heinlein's dyspepsia in his later years -- makes me doubt it.
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Chosing to be different
When one makes a choice to not be one of the crowd and to be different regardless of the consequences, that comes with a price. The isolation can feel uncomfortable. That's why what you think about yourself and how you sooth yourself is very important. If you spend too much time on what others think, then you give too much power to those who clearly don't deserve it.
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bystander
The hammer?
Why not use:
The 'Tootsie Roll Pop' and knock the knee-jerkers? Hand a 'Tootsie Pop' to the podiatrist, carpenters, judges, orchestra,
and throw away wood gavels?
We'd have more timber trees.
The pointer would be obsolete.
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bystander
One of the big problems we face today I think is "analysis paralysis"..
Since large projects must never fail, the temptation is to continue analyzing and planning indefinitely..
When we lived in New Orleans they were building the new bridge over the Mississippi in either Harvey or Gretna, I can't remember which.
They actually had to demolish at last one of the giant piers that had been built for the bridge because it had been put in the wrong location by several meters.
Then I'm reminded of the Hubble Space Telescope.. I can still remember first hearing of the flawed main mirror on NPR one morning..
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HRH
Instead of talking about the Hubble problem, experts figured out a fix and did it. And watching on TV that fix happen, was an example of real teamwork in action. All the talking was critical.
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RMP
When one makes a choice to not be one of the crowd and to be different regardless of the consequences, that comes with a price.
For some of us not being part of the crowd is not a choice..
I find it almost physically impossible to "make small talk"..
My mind just doesn't work that way.
I'm anything but a sports fan, don't pay any attention to local news and don't watch TV, celebrities bore me well beyond tears..
That pretty much leaves the weather..
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RMP
I ground my first primary mirror when I was twelve..
The fix for the Hubble was readily apparent to me.. I've owned two similar corrector lens before..
http://www.televue.com/engine/page.asp?ID=230
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Aycharrach.
The Military Industrial Monster could make gumdrop bullets. Bystander could help people in a worthwhile Peace Corp Project anywhere in the world. We All Love Candy.
Roads may be paved in yellow jelly beans and we'd be at peace. No blood.
The awards given out for peaceful suggestions could be chocolate bunnies.
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A caveat
When one makes a choice to not be one of the crowd and to be different regardless of the consequences, that comes with a price. The isolation can feel uncomfortable. That's why what you think about yourself and how you sooth yourself is very important. If you spend too much time on what others think, then you give too much power to those who clearly don't deserve it. -- Retired Military Patriot
Sorry to quote the whole comment, but otherwise, I'm not sure the context would be clear.
All very true, what you say, but the truth is that mental states and physical states are related. Acts change thinking more effectively than thinking changes acts. Depressed? Talk to some holy fool at a diner, or take a walk. Unhappy with the fact that you have no leverage on the bad things going on all around you, or on your own impotence? Pick up a tootsie roll (role?) and go to work.
Bye-and-bye your dark thoughts will retreat somewhere and lick their wounds. And who was it exactly, that put those flowers in your path? A thought for another day.
If you think that Pollyanna was the author of this insight, think again, preferably with a hammer in your hand.
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@ Aycharaych
I find it almost physically impossible to "make small talk"..
Thank Goddess I decided to peek in at Greenwald's today! Mark my words, my Achy-breaky friend, what you are describing sounds like, sounds like ("How many syllables Mario?, How many syllables?") the first phase of Asperger's Syndrome-by-proxy Syndrome, (by proxy)
This is a serious condition which should not be left untreated!
But I do want to tell you this: with incredible sacrifice and pain, and at great expense, and with the co-operation of all your friends and relatives and a little Divine assistance, this condition may be slightly alleviated, somewhat, to a degree, maybe.
It's up to you, but I will help all I can. Oh, don't thank me. It's just what I do to help treat my own case.
You might search the web for other survivor-and-sufferer groups. Group support means a lot.
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Doesn't work for everyone..
Bye-and-bye your dark thoughts will retreat somewhere and lick their wounds. And who was it exactly, that put those flowers in your path? A thought for another day.
Unless I have something to distract my *mind* physical activity often makes depression worse for me.
Which is why I spend so much time online arguing with people I'll never meet.. It helps to keep my mind distracted from my own problems.
But then I'm still ADD at a fairly advanced age..
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HRH
True, we are born with different temperaments and brain constructions. Major changes are not possible. I don’t know if you have made peace with yours. The fact you see and construct things differently is not a weakness. WT is right, don’t sell yourself short. You have a lot to talk about and a lot to say. Bop knows how to stop and smell the roses or stink and come out stronger for it. We can all learn from him.
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What about the Constitution, The Bill of Rights, a Police State?
Begin by 'face' to 'face' honest discourses. Begin to give the muggers a yellow star for a smile.
Give Dick Cheney a chocolate mousse and when he says "We Americans" ... Tell him the wee wee is a little mouse and the followers are creepy rats? Tell the "constitutional protections" baloney
Phonies they need ousted from all government roles.
Have the Fake neoconservative movement be curbed.
It's about time they made a big human jail mouse-trap!
Send the know-all stinky yaks and hackers to a barred-gage.
Feed them Kool Aid and have them scrub the foul GOP latrines.