Thread: He was a good dog
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Old November 1st, 2007, 01:01 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
jeff
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Default He was a good dog
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:20:28 -0400, jeff
wrote:




i reckon there is a southern cultural or genetic influence that assures
one is neither clinical, analytical, nor critical about the death of
anyone...especially someone with the significant status of a dog. we all
vibrate in this fog in different ways. tolerance. empathy. i think they
may be the most important of traits in a too-crowded world. probably
why i look for remote spots. i dunno...


Bull****. The ****ed-up inappropriate response to which you respond is
exactly what it is. You know as well as I, and what both our
grandmothers knew and through their grace we learned - there are
unfortunate situations in which one can't sympathize and commiserate
with a friend...in those situations, a gentleperson keeps their cakehole
closed.


ah... the smell of bull**** in the morning.g

first, for a number of reasons, i consider wolfgang a friend. i don't
always agree with or understand my friends. i do think, like you, that
at times silence is the appropriate response...even from those blessed
with the ability of keen insight and cursed by a need to express one's
opinion of observed truths. (this is not a comment on the specifics of
wolf's post, but is meant in the larger context...so, yeah, ****, i
reckon it's a comment).

second, for a number of reasons, i don't consider ken a friend. but, for
whatever reason, i seem to have a different tolerance and empathy in my
response to his events.

it simply struck me that it is odd how wolfgang, and some others in the
past, perceive and respond to sad news from some sources or about some
things. i have honestly and genuinely felt sadness and sorrow for people
i despised. it's hard to reconcile logically those feelings, hence my
post in response to ken's sad news and wolfgang's harsh observation. i
guess it was my own therapeutic need being served...something one
generally does in more comfortable places and with more gentle critics.

jeff (and, yeah, i know there are times when the clinical, analytical,
critical should be expressed, even by a meek southerner, about death and
the dead and the living and... but we all have differing ideas about
where the line is drawn)