Posted by sigismund on March 31, 2013, at 17:15:52
In reply to Anyone else have ruminations???, posted by Roslynn on March 31, 2013, at 13:01:57
My general hunch would be to act counter-intuitively and try to see what might be right in the ruminations....to give them the absolute best chance to establish how awful you are (or whatever they are arguing)....and then if they don't pass that generous and easy test ask them to leave the room, which of course they won't. If you could just brush them aside it would be easy.
I have this thing when I have smoked marijuana.....all of a sudden a new perspective comes from around the corner casting me in a terrible light and I think 'How could you?', and the best thing to do with that is to allow the case to be argued....and it turns out that the sin concerned is pretty venial......minor errors of taste and so on.
And if the errors are not venial but mortal, maybe the best you can do is resolve not to repeat the mistake or crime or whatever. Of course it might not be what you have done but who you are. Anyway....
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