[Vision2020] Good morning campers - It's installment #19 - Encouragement

Joe Campbell philosopher.joe at gmail.com
Thu Jan 6 05:12:52 PST 2011


One other point I forgot to mention. If you're going to post that crap about values I wish you would READ and understand what you are posting.

Here's what you wrote as a definition of "encouragement": " to raise confidence to the point where one dares to do what is difficult."

Then below you claim: "sometimes scary facts encourage people to do things to deal with the scary facts."

But do the scary facts "raise confidence"? No. So getting folks to do things out of FEAR is NOT a form of encouragement given YOUR definition.

On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Jeff Harkins <jeffh at moscow.com> wrote:

>  Sometimes facts are scary things.  And sometimes scary facts encourage 
> people to do things to deal with the scary facts.  Sometimes it takes 
> scary things to encourage people to address their fears and deal with 
> reality.
> 
> 
>> "After years of deficit financing for state and local government (dems
>> and repubs), it is time to begin to pay for the music.
>> 
> Fact
>> "Here is a teaser intro to get folks to focus on the problems we are now
>> facing.  Before you gnash your teeth and wring your hands in despair, be
>> sure to link to the full article - then let the gnashing begin.
>> 
> Fact
>> "We, as a nation and a republic of states are in serious fiscal
>> condition.  Our present situation is NOT SUSTAINABLE.  Each U.S. citizen
>> is going to sacrifice - over the next several decades."
>> 
> Fact
> 
> Let's make the sacrifice count.  Let's do it well.  Let's fix the problem.
> 
> 
> 
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