Stargate21 - putting on airs, dismissal, Cetus "Whale"

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Patient refers to it as stargate-two-one	A Busybody.1	Veiled Hatred.2

TOOLSET

INFORMAL FALLACY

—Easy enough.

—We'll manage.

—And more!

—It's maddening.

Moxie's

Disease

a Fortiori Argument —
(With Stronger Force)
This argument claims that if something is true about a notorious, unusual, or relatively rare case, then it must be true, with stronger force, in the relatively mainstream case.

NOTES TO MYSELF	PSYCHOLOGICAL AGE	CLASS
[putting on airs, dismissal] - You begin to realize their parents are somehow in competition with your parents - Putting on airs, they used to call it - Pretending to be something they're not.	The Age of Attention, ages 4-7	Separation

Exactly what someone said [or did]
... usually not very original.

•

The thoughts of a "bad child"
... to free your mind again.

ATTACKS	BRIDGE	SILENT BACKUP
"Wilmington is a terrible place!"	—It's maddening.	—When you were there.
"We sent a man to the moon, so surely we can design a safe car."	—And more!	—For all YOU know.
"If the Simpson case is your idea about jurisprudence in California, it only confirms what I've been saying — the whole country has seen that."	—We'll manage.	—You have to know what you're responsible for, and what you're not responsible for.
"At least you pronounced my name right, so we're off to a good start."	—We'll manage.	—We'll do it one at a time, because it's much easier.
"Tell me something I don't know."	—We'll manage.	—I can't even explain it, it's so weird.
"Tell me something I didn't already know."	—And more!	—Even if it seems foolish.
"I don't know what to tell you."	—It's maddening.	—Twice.
"I don't know what I was thinking!"	—We'll manage.	—Just smart.
"It's not what you know; it's who you know."	—And more!	—It takes two to tangle.
"You have so many houses – How do you know when it's time to move?"	—It's maddening.	—You have pulls in that direction.
"We just know."	—Easy enough.	—Different cultures, different things.
"How come you don't know this?"	—Easy enough.	—I haven't reached that level yet ... Sometimes it's hard to remember things because there are so many things to remember.
"You don't know that?"	—It's maddening.	—He who laughs last thinks slowest!
"I think I'll miss the new Star Wars."	—Easy enough.	—At many locations.
"I'd tell you the real scoop, but you really don't want to know."	—Easy enough.	—You can't be cheated out of nothing, can you?
"Your loss."	—It's maddening.	—Better limited and alive than unlimited and dead.
"Are you registered to vote?"	—And more!	—Whatever the others have, we have, too.
"You're so naïve."	—It's maddening.	—I don't want to say anything more.
"Richard, you better lay low."	—Easy enough.	—I've heard about it, but I don't know.
"I just don't think we're compatible."	—It's maddening.	—Traditionally, culturally, and your parents.
"This is a terrible intersection."	—It's maddening.	—Nothing lasts forever, huh?
"Come here, come here, there is no red light at this intersection, it is up there."	—Easy enough.	—It puts a bad day in perspective.
"Too much excitement for me!"	—We'll manage.	—My nose is itching; it must be the truth.
"Don't you know anything?"	—Easy enough.	—I'm afraid I'll mislead you.
"Do you know who that is?"	—And more!	—Who wouldn't?
"Do you know where it is?"	—And more!	—I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid.
"You don't know how to get to Burlingame Avenue?"	—We'll manage.	—There are lots of little things – You're not bad if you don't know them.
"You didn't know that?"	—It's maddening.	—It wasn't special, let's put it that way.
"I would expect you to know how to take people where they're going."	—We'll manage.	—If this wasn't hard, everyone would be rich.
"I would expect you to know that if you drive a cab here."	—Easy enough.	—In Boston, it was the only thing you learned.
[Someone dumping your change on the counter]	—It's maddening.	—I don't deserve that.
"I don't know what it's like and I don't want to know."	—It's maddening.	—What can we do about it?
"How do you know all this?"	—It's maddening.	—I just have a memory for certain things.
"What is the greatest thing a person can know?"	—Easy enough.	—This, too, shall pass.
"That sounds appropriate — Excellent!"	—Easy enough.	—Just trying to save you a little trouble.
"This stuff is better than Beethoven, man!" [The Fifth Dimension]	—And more!	—All the old-time favorites.
"Did you write down, 'Not enough live stuff?'"	—And more!	—I really like the free exchange of ideas.
"This stuff is really getting to me — I think I've just about had enough."	—It's maddening.	—What can you do, we mere mortals?
"Do you have enough there?" [Sarcastically]	—And more!	—I'm not going to waste my time thinking it's no good.
"Enough!"	—We'll manage.	—The Wizard of Ounce! I think it's very funny that "Oz" means "Ounce."

REFLECTIONS

01-AUG-1999.

Playing Dead, And ...

The way people get you is by hitting you in the imagination. When someone in the peanut gallery teases you that way, the solution is to play dead, as if you don't care. Remember you were doing just fine until they came along:

"I'd tell you the real scoop, but you really don't want to know."

—Easy enough.

If they can trick you into forgetting all aspects of yourself except for your anger, and into thinking that the other person is important, you have lost your birthright — What were you doing before the insult?

Actually, you don't have to say anything at all. You can simply hold your breath, sense yourself, and realize. Holding your breath is like shifting gears. It quiets your emotions, lets you return to your own life, to your own breathing, to the part of you that is always healthy and well.

WASPS say, "Much of good manners is about knowing when to pretend that what's happening isn't happening." (1.) However, what do you say to someone who is pretending what's happening isn't happening?

1. Feeley, Mrs. Falk, A Swarm of Wasps. New York, William Morrow, 1983. p. 48.

01-AUG-1999.

... Considering Another Person

You're not considerate of someone when you make them work.

Liking someone is liking their consciousness.

When you talk to someone,
you're not supposed to say what you think —
You're supposed to say something
that corresponds to what they are.

Getting along with someone
has nothing to do with what you believe in —
It has to do with understanding what they need.

28-FEB-2007.

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CODE WORDS: appropriate, compatible, [counter], enough, excitement, intersection, know, lay, loss, moon, naïve, pronounced, registered, scoop, Simpson, stuff, wars, Wilmington

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