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Even after all this, I do not wish the Congressional Teabaggers ill. (Original Post) Jackpine Radical Oct 2013 OP
i wish them intelligence. spanone Oct 2013 #1
But intelligence without ethics, empathy, compassion or wisdom Jackpine Radical Oct 2013 #6
Everyone who knows Cruz or ever knew him says he is very smart. tblue37 Oct 2013 #7
That's very conciliatory. Aristus Oct 2013 #2
I have great compassion for them Jackpine Radical Oct 2013 #4
Revenge is a dish best declined. randome Oct 2013 #3
Exactly. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth-- Jackpine Radical Oct 2013 #5
+1 Scuba Oct 2013 #10
Good not to respond in kind libodem Oct 2013 #8
I understand how they feel about me. I refuse to join in their sickness. Jackpine Radical Oct 2013 #9
What an interesting job libodem Oct 2013 #13
I've pretty much done it all. Jackpine Radical Oct 2013 #14
Such interesting work! libodem Oct 2013 #15
Thanks for the cool head. We have an opportunity for a non-violent revolution Nov 4, 2014. Scuba Oct 2013 #11
I have only attacked them in self-defense. MoonRiver Oct 2013 #12
I wish they would denounce their racist element Southside Oct 2013 #16
That would presume that there is a Jackpine Radical Oct 2013 #17
I have to believe that Southside Oct 2013 #18
They like to have tokens around Jackpine Radical Oct 2013 #19
Sad, but true Southside Oct 2013 #20
I wish them Karma. GoCubsGo Oct 2013 #21

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
6. But intelligence without ethics, empathy, compassion or wisdom
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:23 AM
Oct 2013

is the formula for highly effective psychopaths.

tblue37

(65,457 posts)
7. Everyone who knows Cruz or ever knew him says he is very smart.
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:25 AM
Oct 2013

We see how it works out when intelligence is harnessed in the service of corrupt ends.

Aristus

(66,433 posts)
2. That's very conciliatory.
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:16 AM
Oct 2013

I wish them long lives, alone with their cowardice. Lives lived 'to the pain': wallowing in freakish misery forever...

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
4. I have great compassion for them
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:20 AM
Oct 2013

with their hateful, twisted little lives behind their "masks of sanity" (if you get the Cleckley allusion).

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
3. Revenge is a dish best declined.
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:20 AM
Oct 2013

Outthink them. Outperform them. Out maneuver them. We can do that.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]You should never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]

libodem

(19,288 posts)
8. Good not to respond in kind
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:27 AM
Oct 2013

And turn the other cheek. After you have been slapped up side the head. Here's a tissue for that nose bleed.

We shouldn't respond in kind, with hate and paranoia. But make no mistake about how they feel about you. They wish to see YOU as a liberal destroyed. And if you feel that way about them then it is Christian 'persecution'.

Yep, you can't reason with them.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
9. I understand how they feel about me. I refuse to join in their sickness.
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:34 AM
Oct 2013

I used to be a Corrections shrink & remember an occasion a number of years ago when I was working with a guy who had just been released from prison after a lengthy sentence for attempted murder. I came up with a psych treatment plan that was intended to help keep him out of prison. He didn't like the plan. He ended up back in prison after going into Berserker mode and threatening my life.

Society had to be protected from him, but to this day I wish him no ill.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
13. What an interesting job
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 12:01 PM
Oct 2013

Sounds fascinating. I've never done any corrections work. But I have worked a number of psych units. It pleases me to no end that some kind of rehabilitation was attempted. Your work was no doubt successful in other cases. Hope they appreciated the opportunity of having some better coping tools in their toolbox.

If only the psychopaths in congress would take a course in thinking errors....

(I know you are right, but it is hard to, find the Zen, and love them like Jesus, would)


When I could pinch off their heads. Grrr. I'm working on it, I promise.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
14. I've pretty much done it all.
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 12:21 PM
Oct 2013

Inpatient psych several years, ICF-MR, outpatient clinic, Corrections, & for the last 7 years private practice criminal forensic psych. I guess I just can't hold a job.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
15. Such interesting work!
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 12:56 PM
Oct 2013

I was just a psych tech doing institutional custodial care at a state hospital and later a state school for MR clients. After I got my nursing degree I worked some private hospitals doing detox and basic mental heath care. I worked closely with the social services, psychologists, and psychiatrists. I've been very interested in how people respond to psychotropic medications. Your job sounds so interesting to me.

Southside

(338 posts)
16. I wish they would denounce their racist element
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 01:16 PM
Oct 2013

The people who keep mentioning white guilt and the Kenyan. That part of the Tea Party worries me. They keep talking about restoring America, but to what.

Also the group that hates all spending even social security. There has to be an understanding that we have a duty to care for those in need.

They scare me and they like that.

Southside

(338 posts)
18. I have to believe that
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 03:35 PM
Oct 2013

This is 2013, we go to school together, work together, struggle together. On the freeper sites a few will denounce the confederate flag, but they are the exception. Also they like Hermain Cain, Ben Carson, Michelle Malkin....Bill Cosby.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
19. They like to have tokens around
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 03:38 PM
Oct 2013

to make them feel all cosmopolitan and enlightened. Hermie, Bill & all are just so different from those other Negroes, ya know.

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
21. I wish them Karma.
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 04:09 PM
Oct 2013

What goes around comes around. And, I hope that in their case that it comes around good and hard.

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