In Reply to: Re: Why the need to fantasize endlessly about this? posted by Paddy Green on December 01, 2002 at 14:00:58:
And you're of course welcome to bring it up anytime you like. True, there are going to be plenty of exers who just don't want to hear it anymore, but they don't have to respond, and there are those who are trying to digest it and determine just what is what, so talking about it endlessly can be ok for newcomers or exers who just haven't finished processing, or even begun. I still like to talk about it because my hubby recently got into some kind of campaign such as yourself with the onset of 9/11 and then he started reading the Left Behind series and that was all I heard about everyday it seemed. I just don't go for it and I have my reasons which I like to air out from time to time. All opinions are welcome and everyone is entitled to such. What I don't like is fanaticism and getting stupid like we did - selling our insurance policies and not planning for the future because we got into such a frenzy about it. I think this is a typical quality of youth, fanatcism, it's something that is genetic. Then when we get older and wiser, we settle down. We need both, the energy and fanaticism of youth to propel us into making necessary changes and doing new things, but we also need the tried and proven wisdom of the older generation who've seen it all and done it all.