Should I be angry at myself for not being angry with anyone?

[MattusMaximus]

I'm just chillin' - no anger involved.

Is that wrong?

[Autolite]

They say that anger is a wasted emotion. I think that "marginally upset" with yourself is acceptable though...

[Harpyja]

I think all we need for world peace is a good round of Prozac.

[Roadtoad]

Duuuuuuuuuude...

Chill. Have a beer.

[articulett]

It sounds to me like you are having a passive aggressive relationship with yourself.

I strongly suggest you chant OOOHHHHMMMMMM and get your chakras aligned before the winter solstice.

[jmercer]

Anger's useful - when channeled into constructive behavior, anyway. Most of the time, it's not.

[Dunstan]

No, you should be angry at yourself for all that guiltless tergiversation. Or something like that. I've lost track.

[articulett]

I hear that guiltless atheist masturbation relieves angst... or something like that.

[qwints]

but angry sex can be quite fun...

[kerikiwi]

You need to give yourself a good slap. Then see if you are still not angry with anyone.

[Gord_in_Toronto]

I'm just chillin' - no anger involved.

Is that wrong?

Of course it is. It's ^(*(%*# lazy uninvolved people like you that aren't helping keep the World's population in check by blowing up small babies and children. Get into a cult for Pete's sake and start doing something with your life. :eye-poppi

[articulett]

I thought it was make-up sex that was fun?

[MattusMaximus]

You need to give yourself a good slap. Then see if you are still not angry with anyone.

http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/thum_774747fc3d4ebb8e1.jpg (http://forums.randi.org/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=11661)

Nope - still chillin' :D

[MattusMaximus]

I thought it was make-up sex that was fun?

Arti, it's all fun. Even when going solo :)

[Dunstan]

but angry sex can be quite fun...

As Danny DeVito's character said in the War of the Roses:

"You mean there's another kind?"

[Ron_Tomkins]

I'm just chillin' - no anger involved.

Is that wrong?

You shouldn't be angry. You should be sorry. SORRY THAT YOU'VE DISSAPOINTED THE LORD. BECAUSE THE LORD ALMIGHTY IS LISTENING. YOU MAY THINK HE'S NOT BUT HE'S LISTENING. AND THE LORD KNOWS WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU! AND WHAT WILL YOU DO ON THE JUDGEMENT DAY?? WHAT WILL YOU DO WHEN THE CURTAINS CLOSE? OOOOHHHHH WHAT WILL YOU DO?? ONLY THE LORD KNOWS WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU. SO YOU MUST REPENT!! YOU MUST BEG FOR FORGIVENESS OF YOUR SINS!! YOU HAVE TO LOOK UP TO THE LORD! PRAISE THE LORD!!! YOU HAVE TO LAY ON YOUR KNEES AND PRAISE THE LORD! YOU HAVE TO LAND ON YOUR KNEES AND GIVE YOURSELF TO THE LORD!! YOU HAVE TO BEG FOR MERCY!! FOR THE PROMISED LAND IS SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR!!! YOU HAVE TO FORGET ABOUT YOUR LIMBS, YOUR ARMS, YOUR FACE!! YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE!!! BELIEVE!!! I WANT YOU ALL TO STAND UP NOW AND BELIEVE!! HOLD YOUR HANDS!! OOHHH IT'S COMING!! I'M GETTING THE ENERGY AGAIN!!! LOOK OUT I'M SHAKING!! SOMEONE COME OVER HERE AND GET SOME OF THIS BECAUSE IT'S TOO MUCH! I CAN'T TAKE IT!!.... OOOHH LORD ALMIGHTY PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON ME, I CANNOT TAKE THIS CHARGE!! I'M LIKE A MANGET!! SOMEONE COME OVER HERE AND HELP ME GET RID OF THIS.... YES!!! YOU, MAA'M!! COME OVER HERE!! THE LORD LOVES YOU AND HE WANTS ME TO TELL YOU THAT YOUR HEART IS GOING TO KEEP WORKING! NO HEART TRANSPLANT! COME OVER HERE! LET ME PUT MY HAND OVER YOUR HEAD!!! OHHHH LORD PLEASE, HAVE MERCY ON ME!! I'M ON FIRE TONIGHT!!! HAAALLELUJAHH! IT'S A MIRACLE!! EVERYONE SAY HAAALLELUJAH! HAAALLELUJAAAH! HAAAAALLELUJAAAAHHH!!!!

[arthwollipot]

Anger is unproductive. I have never encountered a situation that anger improves.

[Silentknight]

I'm just chillin' - no anger involved.

Is that wrong?

We've got the same problem then. I've still got this hysterical smirk plastered on my face ever since reading over the latest thread by a niatrec luadividni and it makes me laugh every time I think of his ytidiputs. :D

[Dunstan]

Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to the Dark Side. The Dark Side leads to cool black robes and... no, wait. Anger leads to fear. Fear leads to hate. Hate leads to anger... aw, damn, I give up.

[Silentknight]

Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to the Dark Side. The Dark Side leads to cool black robes and... no, wait. Anger leads to fear. Fear leads to hate. Hate leads to anger... aw, damn, I give up.

"Powers are not inherently good or evil, it's how you use them that matters."
--Kyle Katarn, Jedi Academy

[Roadtoad]

Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to the Dark Side. The Dark Side leads to cool black robes and... no, wait. Anger leads to fear. Fear leads to hate. Hate leads to anger... aw, damn, I give up.

No, no, no. It's "Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to stress. Stress leads to doobies. Doobies lead to m-e-l-l-o-w..."

[The Man]

I'm just chillin' - no anger involved.

Is that wrong?

You and me both, I could never understand sustained anger directed at others. Some people waste so much of their lives being angry at themselves or others. Deal with it get it out and be done with it, so everyone can move on. I certainly have no problem being angry at myself, something or someone else, but that anger is vented at that time in as constructive a fashion as I can muster at the time. So it is only a concern at the incidental moment. Anger is a survival tactic, it produces the displays that often drive off competitors, sustaining such anger after the incident is not a survival tactic and can be detrimental to such.

[Gord_in_Toronto]

You shouldn't be angry. You should be sorry. SORRY THAT YOU'VE DISSAPOINTED THE LORD. BECAUSE THE LORD ALMIGHTY IS LISTENING. YOU MAY THINK HE'S NOT BUT HE'S LISTENING. AND THE LORD KNOWS WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU! AND WHAT WILL YOU DO ON THE JUDGEMENT DAY?? WHAT WILL YOU DO WHEN THE CURTAINS CLOSE? OOOOHHHHH WHAT WILL YOU DO?? ONLY THE LORD KNOWS WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU. SO YOU MUST REPENT!! YOU MUST BEG FOR FORGIVENESS OF YOUR SINS!! YOU HAVE TO LOOK UP TO THE LORD! PRAISE THE LORD!!! YOU HAVE TO LAY ON YOUR KNEES AND PRAISE THE LORD! YOU HAVE TO LAND ON YOUR KNEES AND GIVE YOURSELF TO THE LORD!! YOU HAVE TO BEG FOR MERCY!! FOR THE PROMISED LAND IS SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR!!! YOU HAVE TO FORGET ABOUT YOUR LIMBS, YOUR ARMS, YOUR FACE!! YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE!!! BELIEVE!!! I WANT YOU ALL TO STAND UP NOW AND BELIEVE!! HOLD YOUR HANDS!! OOHHH IT'S COMING!! I'M GETTING THE ENERGY AGAIN!!! LOOK OUT I'M SHAKING!! SOMEONE COME OVER HERE AND GET SOME OF THIS BECAUSE IT'S TOO MUCH! I CAN'T TAKE IT!!.... OOOHH LORD ALMIGHTY PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON ME, I CANNOT TAKE THIS CHARGE!! I'M LIKE A MANGET!! SOMEONE COME OVER HERE AND HELP ME GET RID OF THIS.... YES!!! YOU, MAA'M!! COME OVER HERE!! THE LORD LOVES YOU AND HE WANTS ME TO TELL YOU THAT YOUR HEART IS GOING TO KEEP WORKING! NO HEART TRANSPLANT! COME OVER HERE! LET ME PUT MY HAND OVER YOUR HEAD!!! OHHHH LORD PLEASE, HAVE MERCY ON ME!! I'M ON FIRE TONIGHT!!! HAAALLELUJAHH! IT'S A MIRACLE!! EVERYONE SAY HAAALLELUJAH! HAAALLELUJAAAH! HAAAAALLELUJAAAAHHH!!!!

I think you have almost got it. Now try again with more feeling. :hit:

[Ron_Tomkins]

I think you have almost got it. Now try again with more feeling. :hit:

Oh come on. Give me a break here. I'm trying as hard as I can. I even got the tuxedo.

[articulett]

But you didn't quote scripture... and you didn't spew homophobic bigotry.

tsk.

[kurious_kathy]

You and me both, I could never understand sustained anger directed at others. Some people waste so much of their lives being angry at themselves or others. Deal with it get it out and be done with it, so everyone can move on. I certainly have no problem being angry at myself, something or someone else, but that anger is vented at that time in as constructive a fashion as I can muster at the time. So it is only a concern at the incidental moment. Anger is a survival tactic, it produces the displays that often drive off competitors, sustaining such anger after the incident is not a survival tactic and can be detrimental to such.
Anger is a very complicated issue. I mean seems people get upset about everything anymore. I get upset but then I pray and the Lord helps me difuse the anger before it could become sin. Oh yeah and in my BC days I was a total rage-o-holic which got me in some serious trouble so this is one I know too well. God help us all not to let the sun go down on our anger so the enemy gets a foothold. Overcome evil with good!

[articulett]

Now she's a godbot and spreads Stepford Joy throughout the land!

[arthwollipot]

*facepalm*

[Dave Rogers]

Arti, it's all fun. Even when going solo :)

Sounds pretty guiltless to me. Unless you enjoy guilt, that is.

Dave

[Roadtoad]

Anger is a very complicated issue. I mean seems people get upset about everything anymore. I get upset but then I pray and the Lord helps me difuse the anger before it could become sin. Oh yeah and in my BC days I was a total rage-o-holic which got me in some serious trouble so this is one I know too well. God help us all not to let the sun go down on our anger so the enemy gets a foothold. Overcome evil with good!

Considering you're genuinely evil, Kathy, how would you do that?

[Aitch]

Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to the Dark Side. The Dark Side leads to cool black robes and... no, wait. Anger leads to fear. Fear leads to hate. Hate leads to anger... aw, damn, I give up.

I always thought that Xander got it right:

"Buffy, this is all about fear. It's understandable, but you can't let it control you. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to anger... no, wait... Fear leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side... Hold on... Hate... no... first you get the women, then you get the money, then you get... okay, forget that."

[tanstaafl28]

What is all this "Athiest Rage" I keep hearing about? What's all the hubbub, bub?

[arthwollipot]

Apparently some Christians think that atheists are angry about something. It's all very confusing.

[Roadtoad]

Dunno. Wanna cigar and a beer?

[articulett]

Most atheists have been theists, so we understand the mindset.

But most theists suck at understanding atheists. It seems that they go out of their way not to understand them. Their faith requires that they seem atheists as "angry" or "immoral".

[I Ratant]

Oh come on. Give me a break here. I'm trying as hard as I can. I even got the tuxedo.
,
Magnet, not MANGET!

[arthwollipot]

Dunno. Wanna cigar and a beer?Roadtoad, I would love to share a cigar and a beer with you. Are you going to TAM7?

[The Man]

Anger is a very complicated issue. I mean seems people get upset about everything anymore. I get upset but then I pray and the Lord helps me difuse the anger before it could become sin. Oh yeah and in my BC days I was a total rage-o-holic which got me in some serious trouble so this is one I know too well. God help us all not to let the sun go down on our anger so the enemy gets a foothold. Overcome evil with good!



“A Poison Tree” by William Blake

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I water'd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with my smiles
And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,

And into my garden stole
When the night had veil'd the pole:
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.


Unfortunately it is not always one’s enemies that are poisoned by the fruits of one’s anger or of one’s God’s anger. What of one’s God’s anger, can you claim your God to be as magnanimous and forgiving as you or do you simply pass the responsibility for retribution to some higher power? Do you pray for forgiveness of the offender or simply for assuagement of your anger and the alleviation of you from responsibility for the possibility of some eventual reciprocity?

[kerikiwi]

Roadtoad, I would love to share a cigar and a beer with you.

Cheapskate! Get your own.

[Roadtoad]

Cheapskate! Get your own.

Ahem... (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=130849)

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

So what did you decide, Mattus? I need to know so I can decide whether I should be angry with you or not.

Everyone always talks about anger. What about metaanger? Metaanger gets the short end of the stick.

~~ Paul

[articulett]

*furrowed brow of annoyance*