>>>>Please, do yourself a favor - as many people have told you - quit worrying about what others think of you.
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>>>What really amazes me here on the UT is the tremendous amount of people who tell others to quit worrying about what others think of you. Is this a part of the Wonderful American Culture? Or is it typical for, so-called rational, programmers? Is that the lesson Dr. Phil and Oprah Winfrey have taught you all?
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>>>I criticize that attitude. It shows a serious lack of empathy and solidarity.
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>>Peter, if somebody doesn't like you, then all the whining and complaining in the world isn't going to change that. In fact, all it usually does is to make the other person feel they made the right decision in the first place.
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>>It is far better to simply get on with your life and accept the fact that not everybody in the world is going to like you. Naomi has to get over it, or it will simply become the central theme in her life.
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>>It's not about empathy and solidarity. It's about pragmatism and moving on.
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>Alan, I DO understand what you're saying. It's just that I don't agree on some aspects of that view.

That's the way life works. Agree sometimes, disagree others.

I noticed that in a number of messages you used the phrase, "What you think of me doesn't worry me at all." I'm curious then why you refuse to give that same sort of advice to Naomi instead of constantly backing her in her complaints about what others think of her.

I've never twitted anybody, and probably never will. There are mistaken souls here whose opinions I sometimes oppose diametrically and passionately, but there are other times when I agree with those same incomprehensibly suddenly sane people.

Calling twitting someone an abuse of the filter is like my telling you that you're abusing the U.T. if you don't follow all the threads in all the topics.

If I found out that somebody twitted me, it would take me all of about 1 second to learn to live with it - regardless who it is. And believe me when I say that I would not write one single message to any U.T. area complaining about it.