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Benedict Arnold

Do you sometimes feel you need to shock yourself in order to really see the truth?

 Holy crap - A gray hair !!

Posted - June 13, 2019
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  • 7280
    Seldom---many conclusions follow easily from facts and principles.
      June 13, 2019 2:48 PM MDT
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  • ... Assuming you stay sober.
      June 13, 2019 3:06 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    I'm with you on that one, Tom.
    As M. Scott Peck put it in The Road Less Travelled, one of the keys to happiness, sanity, and well-balanced life is acceptance of reality as it is.
      June 14, 2019 12:58 AM MDT
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  • 4624
    I'm with you on that one, Tom.
    As M. Scott Peck put it in The Road Less Travelled, one of the keys to happiness, sanity, and well-balanced life is acceptance of reality as it is.
      June 14, 2019 12:58 AM MDT
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  • 10026
    I am cracking up and after posting, running to the mirror!!!!!!
      June 13, 2019 3:03 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    SHOCKER!!!!!!!
    I think answerMug gave me my current grey hair!!!!!!!!
    I have millions!!!!!!! This post was edited by Merlin at June 13, 2019 6:57 PM MDT
      June 13, 2019 3:04 PM MDT
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  • 44603
    If you want some more, I have a head full of gray hairs.
      June 13, 2019 3:13 PM MDT
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  • 44603
    Yes, I often stick a fork in the wall outlet to see if there is still electricity there.
      June 13, 2019 3:15 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    It's in the way you spell gray.
    I normally don't say, gr.. AAAAYYY!. I'm happy.  I normally spell Gr.. EEEEEEYYYY. I see stress has even my hair under distresss...
      June 13, 2019 3:17 PM MDT
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  • 44603
    Not to worry...either one is correct. Now go pluck those gray hairs. All of them.
      June 13, 2019 3:45 PM MDT
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  • 8214
    I don't need to be shocked but some people do.  Even then, some folks just don't get the message and they will end up paying the consequences.  While I was having Chemo treatments, there were many other people in the same room having theirs as well.  It is a all day process so we got to know each other quite well.  What I still don't understand are those who took a couple of breaks to go down stairs to smoke a cigarette before returning and resuming their chemo treatments.  One who was there because she ignored spots on her face and now wore a little curtain over her face to hide the missing nose, most of her lips and part of her cheek.  I guess if you don't mind suffering no amount of shock will change your ways. 
      June 13, 2019 5:24 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    It shocks me more when people don't see the truth right under their noses -
    but then, another part of me understands that (unconscious) denial is a common strategy for avoiding facing unwelcom facts.
      June 14, 2019 1:01 AM MDT
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  • 4624
    It shocks me more when people don't see the truth right under their noses -
    but then, another part of me understands that (unconscious) denial is a common strategy for avoiding facing unwelcome facts.
      June 14, 2019 1:01 AM MDT
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  • 10026
     Am I seeing double or was that a double shot I poured in my last toddy?

    Shockingly, both could be true! :) :)
      June 15, 2019 1:09 PM MDT
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  • I like to sweep everything under the rug until it builds up and hits me like an unstoppable freight train. Who can't appreciate a little self-sabotage every now and then? 
      June 15, 2019 1:04 PM MDT
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