tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821887358930448554.post6939897657547599611..comments2007-03-21T19:46:56.708-07:00Comments on Missionary Impossible: Missionary Impossible: our mission, should you choose to join it...Conan Drumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354727384775177791noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821887358930448554.post-76543178085952118032007-03-01T08:52:00.000-08:002007-03-01T08:52:00.000-08:00Gerry:SSSHH! god is listening and he'll tattle on ...Gerry:<BR/>SSSHH! god is listening and he'll tattle on you to his buddy Bush. I hear god is ok with sarcasm but Bush has trouble with individual words let alone meanings that only show through the spaces between the words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821887358930448554.post-66774585534162659272007-03-01T08:09:00.000-08:002007-03-01T08:09:00.000-08:00etbnc:"I like to think of the question in terms of...etbnc:<BR/>"<I>I like to think of the question in terms of when, where, and with whom can we have such conversations effectively and productively?</I>"<BR/><BR/>That is my aspiration here. The scary part is how very sensitive such conversations are to the idioms and the discrepant interpretations of emotional tone. I may wind up saying "i tried to put out some landing lights so folks from otherConan Drumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18354727384775177791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821887358930448554.post-64394747867546911422007-03-01T06:58:00.000-08:002007-03-01T06:58:00.000-08:00"Why do people say 'don't go there' just when the ..."Why do people say 'don't go there' just when the conversation is starting to get interesting?"<BR/><BR/>Seems to me that's often because people see the <A HREF="http://mybluepuzzlepiece.blogspot.com/2007/02/tip-of-iceberg.html" REL="nofollow">tip of an iceberg</A> and they don't want to deal with the rest of the iceberg. <BR/><BR/>But we already knew that, I suspect. Asking an occasional etbnchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03705201307328226917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821887358930448554.post-3231698810567298012007-03-01T03:18:00.000-08:002007-03-01T03:18:00.000-08:00You're just too clever for me, Con. "In a healthy ...You're just too clever for me, Con. <BR/><BR/>"In a healthy person, reason and emotion work together well enough to not cancel out all productive activity." <BR/><BR/>Well, that rules me out of the discussion, Mr Undrum...<BR/><BR/>"...sex, religion or politics."<BR/><BR/>That's all there is... Anything else is pure obfuscation...<BR/><BR/>What about countries whose presidents who claim to be inThe Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884172849865230486noreply@blogger.com