I've had bigger arguments on "issues", like politics, with members of my own family than I've ever seen on display at TFP, whether I am involved in them or not.
But I'd like to think that we can argue like a big noisy family and still be able to let it go at the end of the day like that. Maybe that's just pie in the sky thinking, though.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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