[ExI] anger

[Anton Sherwood]

On 2020-9-23 12:07, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:
> The way to handle anger:  forgiveness.  Forgive yourself for perhaps 
> overreacting.  Forgive whoever made you angry whatever the reason (why? 
> grudges only hurt you)  Acting out your anger only makes it worse. Freud 
> was wrong.  The Greeks too.
> 
> This is the only way I have found to keep my temper when surrounded by 
> idiots on the highway. Forgive and forget.  Once I thought about keeping 
> a gun in the car and that made me realize just what anger was doing to 
> me.  (Yes, part Scot).

(With a name like William Wallace?!)

A friend once told me that he became more even-tempered when he started 
carrying a gun, because he would reason with himself: if it's worth 
anger, it's worth pulling my gun -- and this shit ain't worth pulling my 
gun.

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*\\*  Anton Sherwood  *\\*  www.bendwavy.org