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Thread #104218   Message #2132465
Posted By: Janie
23-Aug-07 - 11:02 PM
Thread Name: Homeland Security??????? For shame!!
Subject: RE: Homeland Security??????? For shame!!
Glad your world is so simple, pdq. My world, and my views are much more nuanced and complex. Sometimes I envy people like you, for whom everything is so simple, so back-or-white, so either-or.   

May I also suggest, and I am serious, that you contemplate the difference between thinking and feeling. Feelings matter, they belong on the bus, but they don't belong in the driver's seat on the road to forming our views and opinions. Feelings are important but very non-specific signals about ourselves. If a person is having disturbed or upset feelings, it is a signal that something, somewhere, is awry. But the feeling gives no indication whatsoever about where something is awry. Something may be awry internally, externally, or both. It will take thinking, unclouded by the emotion, to sort that out. But first, one has to learn to tell the difference between their cognitions and their 'feelings.'