(02-18-2026, 03:31 AM)The Crying Bunny Wrote: When a surgeon removes a tumor, it hurts.
When doctors treat a cancer, it hurts.
When someone tells the truth. . . . . . .it hurts.
Thank you. Now I gotta add not getting cancer to all my other worries.
Telling truth is one thing, beating someone down for shits and giggles is another thing altogether.
Remember how I used to be at ATS? I'd beat folks down. BUT I didn't generally beat them down for shits and giggles, I beat them down so I could build them back up into a better person. I didn't beat 'em down and just leave 'em laying there in a puddle of piss. Made a lot of friends out of former enemies like that, but I digress.
Some folks just can't be rebuilt. I might be one of them. But I don't generally beat folks down any more. I tend to just let 'em be who they're gonna be, and if I don't like who they intend to be, I just don't hang out with them... and I make damn sure they ain't gonna hang out with me, either.
Probably why I live here in the middle of nowhere, just me and Grace and one of the kids. I think it's better for all concerned like that. I don't get on civilization's nerves, civilization don't get on my nerves, errybody happy!
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake