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21 Feb 2018, 9:18 am

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I hate being laughed at for showing compassion to all living things. In one of my group therapy sessions today, one of the things we did was come up with times we displayed several qualities, and one of them was kindness. I said I display it when I move worms off the sidewalk so they don't dry out and die, and catch arthropods and let them go outside when most people would squish them. Everyone in the group laughed, even the instructor. I don't get what's so funny about it. They're living things just like us, so I treat them with some respect and compassion - why is that funny?

not funny at all. i do the same thing. they're alive and want to stay alive. facilitating that is certainly compassion. you are more compassionate than those other folks in the group.

I agree, it is not funny but heart warming. Those people who were laughing are unable to understand your level of compassion and respect for life. They do not possess your level of empathy and sensitivity.
I also wonder if any were actually laughing in a heart warming way because they would do it too?
I have a way of ushering flies out of the door - although some can be stubborn and want to stay. So yes I do the same as both of you - worms are very useful creatures.

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21 Feb 2018, 1:59 pm

^ I've just been reading that people are likely to laugh at something unexpected.
So could it be that those people were expecting a story of human kindness?
It may not have been a malicious rudeness, but still rude to laugh, I guess.

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21 Feb 2018, 8:27 pm

Have you ever had a series of conversations with someone and it's like they're making vague hints about you that are completely unfounded but they never explain what they mean, or they say it doesn't matter and it just unsettles you and leaves you wondering wtf?
That's what's on my mind right now.

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21 Feb 2018, 10:08 pm

I don't understand how people can (apparently) believe that the earth is flat.

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21 Feb 2018, 10:29 pm

how to make the serenity prayer more effective.

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21 Feb 2018, 10:36 pm

Raleigh wrote:

Hmm, I guess that might be at least part of it. I was the first to share, and everyone else's were acts of kindness toward humans. But I suspect the reaction would instead have been "Aww!" if it had been about cute, fuzzy mammals of some sort.

Thank you for the kind words, everyone.

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22 Feb 2018, 12:50 am

elbowgrease wrote:

I don't understand how people can (apparently) believe that the earth is flat.

it's what happens when you never leave your county. a lot of people here live like that, their whole world is 50 miles across.

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22 Feb 2018, 12:55 am

I hope I become a 30 year old adult, not a 30 year old child.

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22 Feb 2018, 1:20 am

me too.

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22 Feb 2018, 1:26 am

I wish I could say mee three but i'm too GD old. :bigsmurf:

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22 Feb 2018, 1:31 am

i neither work nor drive. everyone that i know that's 5-10 years younger has accomplished far more.

i am a 33 year old child.

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22 Feb 2018, 1:34 am

^^^believe you me, if you can make it by not working, you are in an enviable position. I hated working, I hadda drag myself every GD morning, I wanted in the worst way to be somewhere else, anywhere else but at work.

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22 Feb 2018, 2:08 am

how, every time there's a mass shooting, NRA supporters start demonizing folks with mental illness, 95% of whom never commit a violent crime. don't believe me, a nurse? believe these two psychologists: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/thin ... y-ill.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... urder.html

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22 Feb 2018, 2:22 am

they wanna be able to clap away into asylums, anybody who displeases them. borrowed from the soviet playbook. the dotard and his minions think that anybody who opposes him by definition must be crazy anyways.

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22 Feb 2018, 4:09 am

Ants!

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22 Feb 2018, 4:18 am

pants!

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