On Jul 12, 9:25?am, jps wrote:


I want to spew as much **** in their faces as I took. I'm not a turn-
the-cheek sort of guy.


In other words, "I think somebody behaved badly toward me and treated
me unfairly and unkindly. The best possible response is to adopt that
standard of behavior as my own" Mighty sad.

Your adversaries will never enjoy a greater victory than causing you
to alter your life to become one of them. Disagreement over politics?
Doesn't matter, it's a minor detail compared to how you choose to
present yourself.

On the most important scale of all, there's not a darn bit of
difference between the most extreme left wing name caller and the most
extreme right wing name caller ever to darken the electronic portals
of the internet.......their politics may be different, but their
personalities are nearly one and the same.

Give yourself a break, jps. You deserve better for yourself than to
descend to the same depths as the worst of your aversaries. If they
drag you down to their level, they win. Examine the life of Ghandi-
you don't "turn the other cheek" for your adversary's benefit, you do
so to take command of the situation and define the terms for future
discourse.
Or think of judo- allow your opponent's own weighty momentum to put
him in a position of unbalance and vulnerability when it doesn't
encounter the resistance it depends upon for maximum effect.