Re: Frustration of 'doing' vs 'trying' (continued)

"Gremlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> >
> > Your first concern should not be converting the infidels.  Your first
> > concern should be clearing up your own problem with frustration.
> >
>
> What makes you think he is not taking care of himself?

I didn't say he wasn't taking care of himself.  I said he should focus
firstly upon his problem of feeling frustrated.

> I don't read him
> saying anything about any infidels either.

He used the term "anticivilization", by which he meant a group of people who
don't believe and act the right way.  Another term for such people is
"infidels".

> If he did indeed decide to
> remove frustration his decision to do it by accepting his
> frustration seems like a better approach than resisting it
> like you seem to be telling him to do.

I didn't tell him to resist his friutration.  Where are you getting these
ideas?

> > To give up trying, you must not be afraid to die.
>
> Are you suggesting he trys to do that?

I debated adding something to the effect that not being afraid to die isn't
the same as trying to die, but I decided against it, because I felt that
people reading this probably weren't dumb enough not to realize that.  I
stand corrected.