At 03:52 AM 4/29/98 , John I Quist <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Janet313 wrote:
>
>> [hanging on to] anger
>> is like burning down the house
>> to catch the mouse
>>
>> [paraphrased] lao tse
>
>This sounds like anger is a bad thing?
-snip-
>Anger doesn't have to mean yelling and striking people! It can also be
>that intense feeling of "what they are doing to me is wrong! I will not
>let them do it to me!".
>For me, it is the driving force that gives me energy to stand up and
>fight when others ignore me and my value (as well as the value of others).
>
>Am I making sense? Did you mean it differently?
>
>Take care!
>/John.
Janet had to add "[hanging on to]" in her paraphrase to make just the point
you make.
Anger can clearly be a good thing when it is funnelled into the right action.
Hanging onto anger is that which is destructive.
Art
P.S. Acrostic above not intentional. However, acrostic in signature is.
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