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To: Quix

just being vulnerable, open and honest.

And dumb.

3,743 posted on 07/29/2010 11:18:13 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (O Maria, sine labe concepta, ora pro nobis qui ad te confugimus.)

To: Mad Dawg

For those HIDDEN IN CHRIST

I doubt being open, vulnerable and honest is likely to be dumb in very many contexts.

Certainly there is a place for wisdom as a guide.

Hereon, I think that kind of openness, honesty and vulnerability was far from dumb.

You are not at your best when you are at your most cynical, imho.

There can be a time for . . . accurately calling cynicism for what it is . . . and probably even for being cynical in some contexts.

There is not a time for letting cynicism pollute one’s heart.

3,748 posted on 07/29/2010 11:23:24 PM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)

To: Mad Dawg

There can be a time for . . . accurately calling cynicism for what it is . . . and probably even for being cynical in some contexts.

IF BY CYNICAL WE MEAN HAVING A BRUTALLY CANDID APPRECIATION FOR THE TRUE FACTS OF A BAD-FAITH SATURATED SITUATION OR PERSPECTIVE.

There is not a time for letting cynicism pollute one’s heart.

3,749 posted on 07/29/2010 11:24:24 PM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)

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