Posted by verne on March 22, 2006, at 8:53:45
In reply to Re: Calling something or someone uncivil » gardenergirl, posted by AuntieMel on March 22, 2006, at 8:05:47
Looking back at past threads that led to blocks I usually find an escalating debate at the heart of the problem. I'm not sure a support site for mental illness is the place to argue anything anyway.
I don't care if someone says, "Water runs uphill". Why would I need to fix their wagon and prove them wrong? Rather than argue with them about what they experience, I can share my own, more ordinary, downhill water experience with them.
Who feels better after even the most successful of debates? Everyone walks away wounded. There's a place to fix the world and a place to fix ourselves.
Rather than disagree, we can compare notes. The world as I know it, where water runs downhill, won't end if someone on the planet thinks otherwise.
Verne
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