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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Credibility...
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:57:48 GMT
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- In <1993Jan21.081657.8326@netcom.com> rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer) writes:
-
- > Gosh, I wish that you could give Daniel and the other people that
- >have responded to you in this thread the benefit of the doubt and trust
- >what they say instead of calling them liars.
-
- In my experience, people who are truly happy rarely have a
- desperate need to *prove* their happiness to other people.
- Anyone who shows so much anger and hostility, just because
- someone else does not believe in his happiness, probably
- does not really believe it himself. "Methinks thou dost
- protest too much."
-
- I can understand this reaction. I know the pain of being
- lonely and understand the desperate desire to do something --
- anything -- to lessen it. And it has been medically proven
- that denying pain does, indeed, lessen it. The problem is,
- denying pain may also stop you from treating the symptom.
- Unlike the delusional "Doctor" Charlie Martin, I do not believe
- that self-deception is an effective way of dealing with reality.
-
- I have had many friends who claimed that they were happier doing
- something else than being involved with someone (though none of
- them ever went so far as to put commuting, vacuuming, or laundry
- into the "more desireable" category). But all of them would
- readily admit, now that they have found someone, that they were
- only deceiving themselves. Not that I imagine they would spend
- too much time arguing the point. They are too busy *being* happy
- to argue about it.
-
- Daniel, on the other hand, seems to be something of a special case:
- Someone who chooses to say he is not in a relationship, even though
- he continues to do the same things he did when he was in a relationship.
- That may indeed make him happier, since he the benefits of the
- relationship without acknowledging its existance (which, apparently,
- would cause him a bit of trouble).
-
-
- > Discounting others' experiences by calling them liars makes you
- >as credible as a convicted murderer on death row claiming that he/she
- >never committed the crime.
-
- Oh? But you discount others' experiences all the time. Anyone
- who does not believe your bald claim that it's easy for anyone,
- no matter what they look like, to find someone of the opposite
- sex who finds them attractive, is called a liar.
-
- So, what are you in for, pal?
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