05-14-2009, 05:18 PM | #41 | |
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05-14-2009, 05:27 PM | #42 | |
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As far as I know, I've never made a colleague cry through piggish behavior. But the fact is this: awful people who do awful things don't feel awful, because they never had the insight to know anything about awful in the first place. AA has 100x the potential you ever had. The angels may weep for AA at some point, but you might be lucky to get a sniffle. |
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05-14-2009, 05:45 PM | #43 | |
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More sweeping diagnoses from the doctor. For whom? Nobody knows for sure, but we all suspect they're for his miserable, self-loathing self.
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Too funny: a bunch of narcissistic guys with exaggerated sense of import accusing one another of hubris.
same old song -- just a drop of water in an endless sea. all we do crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see... |
05-14-2009, 05:59 PM | #45 | |
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The problem is that AA is made of a different material than them. It's like using your damascus steel to make a tent stake. |
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You oversimplify -- again. There are tent stakes in every profession; there are steel locomotives in every profession. But continue to diagnose and oversimplify -- I understand it's your job.
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05-14-2009, 06:46 PM | #49 | |
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You will note that I am not terribly skeptical of Babs becoming a lawyer (she can make of that as she will, whether that is a compliment or an insult). I've known AA since he was an internet pup. That might not give me the right to express skepticism, but certainly, he can value your vapid well-wishes above my skepticism. |
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05-14-2009, 07:13 PM | #50 | |
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You have generalized, categorized, and boxed things up just so. Perhaps you could have been more specific, then, in your advice to AA. The most specific thing you've done to apply your advice to him is to use a poor metaphor.
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