<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Act out your anger and what does it get you? For some it has produced feuds lasting hundreds of years between Scottish clans. Look at the Arabs and Jews. You can never really get even. ATand T has screwed me more than once. What should I do? Go out and pull some of their cables down?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">We don't need anger. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 1:53 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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From: extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> On Behalf Of Dan<br>
TheBookMan <br>
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> Those are the two options evolution gave to all mammals, ...<br>
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Those are the two options that rhyme and summarize a concept, but there are<br>
more options besides fight or flight. There is negotiate for peace (I like<br>
that option.) Extend the hand of friendship if feasible (I like that option<br>
too.) Agree to disagree (one of my long-time favorites.) Do nothing (the<br>
time-honored approach.)<br>
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Some of the very most adrenaline-filled moments in my life had nothing to do<br>
with conflict, everything to do with performing on stage or copulating (not<br>
at the same event.)<br>
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For men only, when you proposed to your bride what were you feeling inside?<br>
(Ok bad example (my adrenaline reaction was screaming RUN AWAY, lad, FLEEEE,<br>
it's a TRAP! (turned out to be the best trap in history in my case.)))<br>
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spike<br>
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