One thing about stuff that upsets you...it can serve as a way of helping you understand where your own tender spots are, and that could actually provide an opportunity for personal growth....just maybe.

In other words, it's not so important deciding that the other guy is an "idiot" as it is deciding how you are going to react to it. If you're going to make yourself sick about something he said...or spend the rest of your life hating him...is that really a smart thing to do? Why give someone else that power over you?

There are some people here whom I may disagree with, but that doesn't mean I avoid reading their posts, nor does it mean that I consign them to a list of "undesirables".

The only threads I avoid are threads that simply don't interest me very much.

There are some threads I avoid posting to, because they are very contentious, and I don't feel that a comment from me would help matters any. But that doesn't necessarily stop me from reading them.

- LH