Posted by Dinah on July 4, 2010, at 13:15:38 [reposted on July 4, 2010, at 14:05:14 | original URL]
In reply to Re: please be civil » Dr. Bob, posted by violette on July 4, 2010, at 12:51:44
I don't see Emily's posts the way you do. I see her as someone trying to be helpful, and trying to address a point of view she feels may be being overlooked.
I don't want to get into a public debate over it, since I can't see how that would be helpful to anyone. I just didn't want to say nothing.
And I did want to point out that different people can see the same words and have different interpretations of them, and ascribe different motivations to them. The words here are the facts. Your interpretation or my interpretation are our inferences from those facts, and are filtered through our own perceptions.
Just as one person's viewpoint of the original situation and another person's viewpoint of the same situation are colored and filtered by their perceptions, experiences, and ways of viewing life. Neither has to have bad motives to have different points of view, and it's best if everyone posts with that in mind.
Which is sort of what *my* therapist points out to me in therapy, and my responses are probably based on what he's taught me over the years of bringing in babble posts. He is rarely totally supportive of my point of view, without pointing out other interpretations. My own filter. My therapist. :)
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