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[–]Rationalmind 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Thank you for sharing. This was insightful and gives me a glimpse into understanding. I apologize for our past interactions and I appreciate you sharing this with me and others.

Your insight shows me that we are making progress as humans, but then we need to figure out ways to manage and move forward before too many, like Antifa, cause a backwards slip.

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What a kind, lovely thing to say. But now I'm scratching my head over what interactions we've had in the past that you're apologizing for coz I honestly don't recall, LOL. I'm sure whatever you said was of merit and memorable, but I am such a product of the "sticks and stones... but words can never hurt me" generation and ethos that I tend not to remember a lot of verbal altercations I get into with others. Like the proverbial water off a duck's back...

[–]Rationalmind 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yay, I’m glad. Good attitude to have.

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Also, a good number of of the people I hold nearest and dearest once thought I was a total idiot and asshole full of crazy ideas - and they said as much to my face! Also, as someone who has parented offspring during/through the often disrespectful teenage years, I am accustomed to getting side-eye and being slagged off for being a clueless dimwit who knows nuthin'. As the humorist I take my user name from once famously said,

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.