Character Issues

[justnathan]

Two issues with character today, one closer to home and one more general. First, I'm really making an attempt to stop talking about people behind their backs. I don't usually but the few times I do irk me. I've done very well at minimizing sarcasm towards people I don't know well (i.e. people who realize I don't mean anything at all by it). I've

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[justnathan]

True, I was assuming the fact that the discussion would be negative overall. I just find myself all too often making snide comments about people which might be (from my experience) true. By not speaking them aloud, hopefully that means eventually I can limit them in thought as well. In some cases I understand the need to feel negatively about someone but in my case I tend to get turned off about people for pretty stupid reasons.

[ddr_ho]

Hey, Nathan, if you e-mail me with all the good gossip, I'll send you a copy of those pictures from picnic day!

Kidding about the gossip, but I will send pix.

[protoclown]

While I wouldn't necessarily go so far as to call Bush consciously evil (at least not in the cape-swooshing, moustache-twirling "nyah!" sort of way), I feel the man has committed plenty of evil acts and I definitely feel that he needs to be stopped. Anyone who starts a war on false pretenses and gets thousands of people killed, soldier and civilian alike, is bad enough in my book to hold in pretty serious contempt. I realize Clinton was responsible for some pretty horrible things too, like ordering the bombing of civilian targets (whoops!) but I don't feel like he took advantage of his position in quite the same way Bush has. Anyway, I guess my point is that at best I think Bush is horribly wrong, foolish, and misguided, which makes him a very dangerous man to hold the position that he does. And at worst, I think Bush is unwittingly evil, driven by his own misguided moral purpose and the strong personal conviction that he IS doing right…and sometimes that's the scariest evil of all

[justnathan]

I agree. I'm glad that you brought up the point of evil ACTS. I'm all for mentioning those rather than him using someon's shirt to clean his glasses. So he's an insensitive prick. Clinton wasn't? Kerry's not? You see my point.