--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TorquiseB writes: Big snip > The show went on to say that the only sane > thing to do with skunks is avoid them, because > pretty much everything scares them, and thus > if you approach them in any way, you're gonna > get all stunk up. Sounded like good advice > to me... > > Tom T: > An old politician who had been a chicken farmer for the first > 50 years of his life put it to me this way. Son you have got > to learn you are never going to win when you get in a p*ssing > contest with a skunk. That advice has been ignored from time > to time by me and it has always ended up with me getting p*ssed > on. If I remember to avoid the skunkns in the first place, > life is a lot smoother and sweeter. i have noticed there are > some here on FFlife who definitaly fall into that category. Oh > well we eventually get it. Tom T
While I agree with the theory completely, and have adopted it as one of my New Year's Resolutions, the skunk smell actually doesn't come from pissing, but from their sweat glands being squished when they feel fear. I think that's actually a better metaphor for what's happening. The fear in this case is the cognitive dissonance caused by encountering a point of view that they feel is in conflict with their own. IMO, the skunks are *attached* to their ideas, and have so little sense of Self, much less a sense of comfort with self, that any such cognitive dissonance is perceived as an *attack*. Thus they react to the ideas that caused the cognitive dissonace as if the person who proposed the ideas was an attacker, and as if they personally had been attacked. It merely *looks* and *feels* agressive; but it's really a fear phenomenon. In my opinion, of course... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
