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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 2073966, member: 37"] Atta boy. Either have fun with the people you don't agree with or stay away from things. Why let anyone or anything get to you that you have control over. Illness, death, global events are things we can't control. Opinions, which have little or no consequence in the scheme of life, are not worth working ourselves up over. I come here for several reasons the most important of course is to be with people who are passionate about the team I most support. But an additional reason is to develop my game. This game is a challenge I put on myself to see how far I can let myself go in engaging people who normally would irritate the heck out me without being irritated. It's like karate but instead of toughening up the hands I'm toughening up my negative emotions. The last thing people want to do is to allow jaded thinking or negative thinking to take over a place. Certain individuals thrive in a negative environment. They want to pollute things because it provides them with a sense of well being. Now I'm not implying that every poster or even the majority of posters who has expressed concerns has that type of personality. And I'm well aware that negative situations creates more of a reaction than most positive experiences. Hence after victories even in good seasons you get less responses after a win than after a loss. But there are some people who do want others to feel badly when they feel badly. And they love to come to this forum blending with people who have "reasonable concerns" when things are going badly. The best thing I can say to you and other posters who want to deflect negativity is to not take things personally. This forum will only succeed if it can maintain a balance between those who are negatively impulsive and those who are patiently positive. People don't win with what they post. They win when they drive people who disagree with them away. [/QUOTE]

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