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The only thing I know is that I know nothing.
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a story of three billboards
what the world needs now is tact and diplomacy
1.27.12
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One of the most heated exchanges I've ever had with my closest friend was when she took to calling me irrational whenever I expressed an emotion she felt was unnecessary for what I was being too emotional about in her opinion. “If you call me irrational one more time, I swear to God, I will never speak to you again,” I said to her in the car in the midst of my anger that had suddenly doubled. “You're basically telling me that I'm crazy for feeling a certain way about something that is more than valid to me. You're being a dismissive ass.”
She never called me irrational after that, and we went back to being like peas and carrots within minutes.
Well, the dismissing of someone's feelings is something that can happen inside a car between two people, or on a much larger scale that involves the feelings of thousands, if not millions of people.
I'm going to talk about a recent event that sparked the latter in my state, but cover...
read on
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