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Topic: Quotes for dealing with G.U. syndrome
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AcousticGod
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posted April 19, 2013 01:23 PM
  
I've been fighting with G.U. syndrome for quite awhile now. There never seems to be a shortage of people that could be smarter or better informed, but it doesn't really serve any purpose engaging with them. I'm sure we all recognize that on some level... and yet it doesn't take much to be sucked back in. quote:
“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks."
― Winston Churchill
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katatonic
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posted April 19, 2013 01:31 PM
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AcousticGod
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posted April 19, 2013 01:32 PM
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katatonic
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posted April 19, 2013 01:33 PM
lol something got stuck in my "copy" function sorry!the trick is learning to let it blow by..even when bored by the landscape otherwise. IP: Logged |
AcousticGod
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posted April 19, 2013 01:33 PM
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katatonic
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posted April 19, 2013 01:42 PM
i first got sucked in because i had never actually come face to face with someone like jwhop, who spouted all the talking points of the most ridiculous talk show hosts (limbaugh, hannity, savage, and the nauseatingly whiny levin..etc) and i couldn't believe anyone actually believed that stuff! i felt it was important to point out, at least to others, how bad the reasoning was and how scurrilous the sources. but jwhop, at least, had the grace to get tired of it. i mean the same old arguments over and over for 10 years? fixed is one thing, but that kind of stubborness is more like living fossilization. i respect him for leaving. it would be nice to be able to just talk about these things but i have come to the conclusion it "can't happen here"... (often when in gu i wish i were frank zappa!) lately it has become bizarre beyond words, so no other quotes! IP: Logged |
juniperb
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posted April 19, 2013 02:52 PM
quote:
Originally posted by AcousticGod:
I've been fighting with G.U. syndrome for quite awhile now. There never seems to be a shortage of people that could be smarter or better informed, but it doesn't really serve any purpose engaging with them. I'm sure we all recognize that on some level... and yet it doesn't take much to be sucked back in. [QUOTE]“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks."
¯ Winston Churchill
[/QUOTE]Lord knows I could be smarter or better informed... On point, if others would simply NOT bite the tripe baited hook , problem solved. Lately, those responding to nonsense then complaining it is nonsense are getting as tedious.  ------------------
We need to listen to our own song, and share it with others, but not force it on them. Our songs are different. They should be in harmony with each other. ~ Mattie Stepanek IP: Logged |
juniperb
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posted April 19, 2013 03:09 PM
"There are four types of men in this world:
1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him." Gabirol, Ibn
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AcousticGod
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posted April 19, 2013 04:53 PM
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NativelyJoan
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posted April 19, 2013 10:44 PM
quote:
"You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, Know when to walk away, know when to run" Kenny Rogers
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katatonic
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posted April 20, 2013 12:14 AM
It's only rock n roll..IP: Logged |
Ami Anne
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posted April 20, 2013 07:24 AM
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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Ami Anne
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posted April 20, 2013 07:32 AM
Martin Niemöller First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.
Blessings
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katatonic
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posted April 20, 2013 01:23 PM
yes, first limbaugh, beck et al single out the socialists
then the trade unions
then the immigrants
then the disabled/poverty strickenstriking corrollations there, yet you, ami, use it to finger those who DON"T target these groups. good use of a brain! IP: Logged |
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posted April 20, 2013 02:23 PM
“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― John Donne
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posted April 20, 2013 05:10 PM
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.Edward de Bono IP: Logged |
juniperb
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posted April 20, 2013 05:19 PM
“It took me a long time to learn that God is not the enemy of my enemies. He is not even the enemy of His enemies.”Martin Niemöller ------------------
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Node
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From: 2,021 mi East of Truth or Consequences NM
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posted April 21, 2013 03:03 PM
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Stop responding to them. Keep your sense of humor and don't get angry. Treat the matter as what it is – someone testing your boundaries and waiting for you to bite.
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“Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?” W.S. IP: Logged |
Ami Anne
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posted April 22, 2013 07:07 AM
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Originally posted by juniperb:
“It took me a long time to learn that God is not the enemy of my enemies. He is not even the enemy of His enemies.”[b]Martin Niemöller [/B]
God is not, but on the EARTH, all it takes for evil to thrive is for good people to do nothing.
The corollary to this is that in these current times, people will call good evil and evil good. Another quote 
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katatonic
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posted April 22, 2013 12:39 PM
true ami, in these times it is the muslims who are being scapegoated for all our problems. and the people baying for their blood think they are doing the "good" thing.we have had far more white american terrorists, even recently, than muslims. terrorism is terrorism and the perps should be dealt with without the need to stigmatise a whole population. IP: Logged |
juniperb
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posted April 28, 2013 09:14 AM
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
Harlan Ellison “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
Benjamin Franklin “Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
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mockingbird
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posted April 29, 2013 12:37 AM
I'm in a Vonnegut-y mood:
"She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is doing."
"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too."
"So it goes."
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Ami Anne
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posted April 29, 2013 12:53 AM
Silence in the face of evil is ITSELF evil. God will not hole us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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mockingbird
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posted April 29, 2013 07:06 AM
I find it amusing that this has turned into a "GU thread"  ------------------
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juniperb
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posted April 29, 2013 07:55 AM
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.MAX BORN, as quoted in Judith Sherven's The New Intimacy  ------------------
We need to listen to our own song, and share it with others, but not force it on them. Our songs are different. They should be in harmony with each other. ~ Mattie Stepanek IP: Logged |
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