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To: ichabod1

It is by speaking kindly and avoiding kneejerk buzzwords that you do it.

And remembering you will not win people’s hearts and minds if you hit them over the head with a 2 by 4. Tone matters extremely in online conversation. You might reinforce your belief that you are right, but you stop people from listening to what you have to say, and therefore you communicate not truth, but attack, even if there is truth in the statements. Because they will not hear it.


42 posted on 04/03/2007 7:08:37 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

You nailed it.

Someone always has to come and do it for me. :-)

Thanks for your post because it says it all for me. I don’t listen well to hammers and boards. Must be the Irish in me.

ROE


45 posted on 04/03/2007 7:15:29 AM PDT by Running On Empty
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

More great wisdom from you, as usual.

Though I do think 2 X 4’s are most fitting at rare times. Maybe the mule learns little to nothing . . . but the horse next to him might.


230 posted on 05/20/2007 3:20:28 AM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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