>From Grok: >> You sure don't sound like a very happy person to me. Perhaps it >> explains why you have dodged the previous question: "What makes you >> happy, Grok?" > > What really IS amazing is how you people consistently dodge the very real > issue of the pseudo-democracies known as the U.S.A./NATO having become > pretty much full-fledge police states. The ad hominem tack you invariably > resort to, instead, is really kinda pathetically ludicrous. > > It's a shame OU and CF et al. are all tied up in politix (and will be, > for the interim). That fact makes these exchanges pretty nigh > unavoidable. Anywhere there's real and honest debate, that is. > > - -- grok.
Since you seem unwilling or perhaps incapable of answering the simple question "What makes you happy, Grok?", perhaps I should start first. After all, never ask someone to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself. It's been my experience that when I'm happy I have less need to armor myself in ideological distractions. It was a startling revelation for me to confront one day: What is all that ideology I installed within myself doing there in the first place? What is it distracting me from, and who seems to be hiding under the covers? Incidentally, I also noticed that the need to continuously belittle others I may disagree with using monosyllabic potshots like "fella", "Jack", and "twit" seemed kinda... well, pointless. It began to dawn on me that whatever issue I may be feeling at the time, causing me to strike out, making me want to call my "opponent" names, in truth, had a lot more to do with me and myself, and very little to do with my so-called adversary. So... have I reached true and everlasting happiness? No, of course not. At times, far from it. But speaking just for myself, arming myself in ideological rhetoric never seemed to bring me happiness. My two cents. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
