Where the Kids Come to Mouth Off

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
You are fucked in the head.

You are lashon hara. One who speaks despairingly of another person, even though he may speak the truth.
Next time you're over remind me, and I'll show you a reference book where a Hasidic Source states: One mussar said that there never should be any need to speak about another person. "If you wish to speak of someone's praises praise God instead. If you wish to find fault with someone, you would do better to focus on your own defects."

The second statement takes on additional significance in light of what psychologists have learned about lack of self-awareness. Some have suggested that when people talk about other people, they turn the conversation away from themselves and, by focusing on other's shortcomings, they avoid the need to focus on their own. Slandering other people thus sets back the struggle for self-awareness, which is essential for optimum emotional and psychological health, because it directs one's attention away from oneself and onto the defects in others. One thereby does not have the information necessary to improve.

The Talmud states that lashon hara adversely affects three people: the one who speaks, the one who listens, and the subject [Arachin 15b]. We can easily understand how it hurts the last two, and we now have another insight into how gossips actually hurt themselves.

Consider this SS-

"Today I shall..... Avoid talking about other people's faults, and instead try to find my own, so that I can improve upon them.

--Abraham Twerski

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Consider this -

"Today I shall..... Avoid talking about other people's faults, and instead try to find my own, so that I can improve upon them.

--Abraham Twerski

You realize that quoting this to anyone necessarily means that you are not following your own advice . . .

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
You are lashon hara. One who speaks despairingly of another person, even though he may speak the truth.
Next time you're over remind me, and I'll show you a reference book where a Hasidic Source states: One mussar said that there never should be any need to speak about another person. "If you wish to speak of someone's praises praise God instead. If you wish to find fault with someone, you would do better to focus on your own defects."

The second statement takes on additional significance in light of what psychologists have learned about lack of self-awareness. Some have suggested that when people talk about other people, they turn the conversation away from themselves and, by focusing on other's shortcomings, they avoid the need to focus on their own. Slandering other people thus sets back the struggle for self-awareness, which is essential for optimum emotional and psychological health, because it directs one's attention away from oneself and onto the defects in others. One thereby does not have the information necessary to improve.

The Talmud states that lashon hara adversely affects three people: the one who speaks, the one who listens, and the subject [Arachin 15b]. We can easily understand how it hurts the last two, and we now have another insight into how gossips actually hurt themselves.

Consider this SS-

"Today I shall..... Avoid talking about other people's faults, and instead try to find my own, so that I can improve upon them.

--Abraham Twerski

God is fucked in the head.

[ilikenewsocks]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Calling Lawyer a 'Moron' Not Defamatory, Pa. Judge Rules

The bounds of this line of thinking need to be tested. Can we get a volunteer to refer to opposing counsel as a 'fucktard'? Anyone in PA?

[ilikenewsocks]

Indians pitcher Kyle Denney was hit in the leg by a bullet that pierced the team bus on Wednesday night, but he was not seriously hurt thanks in part to his white cheerleading boots. Denney was dressed as a USC cheerleader as part of a rookie hazing ritual, and team trainers say that the high-riding boots may well have saved him from further injury. Still, the bullet called further attention to the fact that Denny doesn't really have the legs to pull the outfit off

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[greatwhitenorthchick]

I like it a lot.

[Alex_de_Large]

There's a new energy drink on the market that will get you back up.

spree: link to product page. Contains cartoon women in skimpy clothing, but nothing othersiwe inappropriate for office viewing.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Alas, I have and continue to use drugs and party in healthy moderation, but I have never gotten the group sex. Never. And I feel cheated. Its fucking unfair. Here I am, happily married, and I guess I'll likely die without the group sex. And not only do people discuss the group sex here... they also talk about it in social settings. Many of my friends have had the group sex. I'm like a fucking loner heree. I've done the outdoor sex, the s&m, the videotape, etc... but no threesome action. And I'm told I'm objectively handsome IRL. What the fuck have I done wrong?

If your wife really loved you, she'd bring home another woman for a threesome.

[Alex_de_Large]

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large

I miss Purse Junkie.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I miss Purse Junkie.

That wasn't Liza Minelli? Or her ex?

[Shape Shifter]

I wasn't sure whether to post thsi on the main fashion board or the Death Pool board, but . . .

"Pants pioneer" Edmond Haggar, of the Haggar Clothing Co., has died at age 88. I'm sure he is now in a better place, sporting affordable off-the-rack Sansabelt wings.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
That wasn't Liza Minelli? Or her ex?

Mike Jax...

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by ilikenewsocks
link

Wow, I think the second girl from the right is braless. That's why I miss college. And chicks who go braless.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
God is fucked in the head.

The extreme limit of wisdom --- that is what the public calls madness.
--- Jean Cocteau