RE: [Zen] How to walk away from arguments

2010-10-01 Thread BillSmart
child is now > 'playing with the angles' or 'in the arms of Jesus' would be a better > approach. > > > > .Bill! > > > > *Merriam-Webster Online > > > > From: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Zen_Forum%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:

Re: [Zen] How to walk away from arguments

2010-09-30 Thread DP
rce, inertia and the crushing threshold of a human > skull is not going to soothe her. Telling her that her child is now > 'playing with the angles' or 'in the arms of Jesus' would be a better > approach. > > > > .Bill! > > > > *Merriam-Webster Online >

RE: [Zen] How to walk away from arguments

2010-09-30 Thread BillSmart
going to soothe her. Telling her that her child is now 'playing with the angles' or 'in the arms of Jesus' would be a better approach. .Bill! *Merriam-Webster Online From: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:zen_fo...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of DP Sent: Thursday, September

Re: [Zen] How to walk away from arguments

2010-09-29 Thread DP
I feel, though, that there is some spiritual anxiety in me, a lack of esteem in my own beliefs. that I feel like I have to defend myself against obviously hostile people who will never agree with me. Am I just fighting my own ego? Or do they have a point? I feel like I have tio make a "decisio

Re: [Zen] How to walk away from arguments

2010-09-29 Thread Chris Austin-Lane
Only you know :) Personally, I have found it to be more satisfying to try to avoid getting the last word. On the internet, you win if you don't reply one more time. They are just trying to goad you into more and more extreme positions until you break Godwin's rule. http://xkcd.com/386/ On Wed,

[Zen] How to walk away from arguments

2010-09-29 Thread DP
i have this frustrating tendency to get into arguments with random people on the internet. I personally try to keep in civil, but I get discouraged by all the insults and obnoxiousness. Many of the arguments are about religion. I encounter a lot of so-called "internet atheists" who seem to desi