Today you, tomorrow me

Post by prodigal_erik » Mon, Dec 20, 2010, 12:12 AM UTC

WiseWeasel wrote: post #202

rick888 wrote: post #199

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"The sources of information you place value in purposely use that narrative in order to capture your attention long enough to sell their advertising partners' products. Fear is the most powerful attention mechanism available." Haha. You mean documented evidence of crime and real people that have been robbed? You're right. I should just ignore it and chock it up to "fear". The story linked here tries to get me with sy…

What about the three hundred million others that didn't get robbed this week? You can take precautions, but to let anxiety consume you, or to change the way you treat people because of these news stories is simply a pitiful demonstration of weak-mindedness.

The question is how many people in metro Detroit picked up a hitchhiker and didn't get robbed. The answer is not 300 million. Suppose it's three? That would make the odds 50:50. Would you still not change the way you treat people?

Post by dragonsden » Tue, Dec 21, 2010, 2:52 AM UTC

blhack wrote: post #113

If you live in IA, MN, ND etc. (I'm sure other places, but these are the places I've lived), this story won't seem very out of the ordinary. Once when I was in college, I flew to Arizona for Thanksgiving, then back to ND on a Monday to go to class. When I got back, it was one of the worst snowstorms of the year. It was horrible. The school was closed, the roads had been closed that night, snow seemed to just be mater…

>The latest trend seems to be "rejection therapy". If this helps people, good, but I hate this. Can we instead please make the next trend "Make somebody's day every day for 30 days therapy"?

Sounds like this 17 year old girl summoned up some courage to help you, instead of minding her own business like so many people do. She might have felt she was taking a chance with her safety to help you, or at the very least be spurned by you. Imagination can be an awful thing sometimes.

I've played Rejection Therapy for awhile now, and it's given me the courage to reach out to estranged family members, to give up my seat on the bus to women, to ask a stranger with a cast if I could walk her dog.

I am a good person, with good intentions, but I am extremely shy by nature and it has handicapped my personality. I've lived alone for many years because of my extreme awkwardness around women. Now I try to reach out to others, even women, despite my fear. I'm now aware that my comfort zone is a cage. And I want out.

Rejection Therapy gives people hope. It permits people to fail, and win, at the same time. That's a trend I want to continue.

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