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the toss of a coin.
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the toss of a coin. ever have a decision to make that you don't want to make? i know what i should do. but i want to do the opposite. and i keep talking myself into doing the opposite with all these great reasons. which are, in the end, bullshit. i know it. if i told you, you'd know it. so i should just do it, right? except if i do, maybe someone gets hurt so badly that they don't ever really recover or maybe they do something stupid. not my fault. but what if i could change that and i don't because i make the wrong decision. can you imagine what it would feel like to be president? i couldn't stand it. to think that my decisions would impact the world....shudder. or maybe it makes it easier, less personal. i have until tomorrow or tuesay. then i'll know what i need to know. sometimes being right isn't being RIGHT. You cannot conceive the many without the one. |
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I've always wanted to be President and to have a bottle of no-doze handy. I'd have everyone shaped up in no time!  Go with your heart and take the high road. Never ignore those who care for you you will have lost diamonds while you were collecting stones
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apparently, you already know the right thing to do and there's only 1 reason; because it's the right thing to do. whatever the situation is, it's not right as it stands or you wouldn't have to make a decision. the right thing to do is usually the hardest thing to do. platitudes, I know but that's all I have. isn't life fun?!
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Sounds like you're between a rock and hard place, and about something much more serious than whether to let a stranger cut your hair  I feel quite sure that you'll decide the right thing.  
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WE, I've always done my best thinking behind a lawn mower. If I give the agonizing decision making process a rest and do something physical which doesn't require any thinking, it seems like I either resolve my problem or at least come up with better solution options. And it's kind of a subconscious thing where I'm not even focusing on the problem. Sometimes you can think better when you're not thinking at all. Mowing the lawn works well for me in this regard. Maybe you have something like that which works well for you. Maybe you could take Charlie for a walk and by doing so just free your mind up to do some crystal clear thinking. Good luck, my friend!
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Wicked, do you ever read "The Ethicist" in the Sunday NY TIMES? Different people have filled the roll over the years, but in general they tackle this kind of quandry. I'll try to think like The E for your puropses: You know what you SHOULD do, but want to do the opposite. Why the SHOULD? And why the opposite? (no need to tell us all, this is a thought ethicist session) Sometimes something is required because of the law. (doesn't necessarily make it morally correct, just legally required). Sometimes the moral answer is twinged with so many shades of gray as to make the YES-NO choice not at all obvious. IF you lay out the pros and the cons for both actions, and still find yourself torn, what now? You're in that many shades of gray zone. Who gets hurt the most by the choices you can make? And is there a third choice, rather than a simple YES ? NO? IF you decide to make no choice, is that decision simply copping out? Wicked, I think you're a person with a good set of values. You'll choose the correct action, in the end, having weighed the options and the consequnces. Knowing that won't make the path from indecison to decision any less rocky, I'd bet, but you'll do the right thing. Chas
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Reminds me of three situations. The first in the movie American Beauty where the guy wants the job with the least responsibility and ends up working at the McDonalds take out window. The next is an old joke about a priest, a minister and a rabbi. They're out playing golf and they're trying to decide how much to give to charity. So the priest says, we'll draw a circle on the ground, we'll throw the money way up in the air and whatever lands inside the circle, we give to charity. The minister says "no", we'll draw a circle on the ground, throw the money way up in the air and whatever lands outside, that's what we give to charity. The rabbi says "no, no, no", we'll throw the money way up in the air and whatever God wants, He keeps. And then there was Bobby..."if not me who, if not now when" Good luck.
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We've all been in the position a time or two; I don't envy you.  Elevate me... 
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I'm not a fan of making decisions, partly because I can usually see some value in either choice and partly because I fear being wrong.
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Sigh. Sorry, WE. I hate those situations! Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies. For vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish. ~~ from Antony & Cleopatra
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Slip me a handful of morphine tabs and you can hurt me 'til hell freezes over--or until the morphine wears off.  Hurting someone with the truth... is not a bad thing, per se. And what they do with that truth is neither your success nor your failure--it's theirs. Solar...
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Idoknowyou... If them FaceBookers had as many smart men (as investors, that is), their stock IPO price wouldn't be down by damned near 16%. That ol' Zuckmeister oughta be pretty close to blowin' town, right about now.. along with his bud--I know I'd be. Everyone's concerned about finding some way to monetize FB's non-existent mobile "ad revenue" base. But that's just because they ain't yet concluded that them 900 million users are actually only about 90,000--the rest of the hyped count being mere phantoms, non-actives, and peeps with 7,000 alter egos (AFFland ring any bells?)--that $32/share... as of closing, today... will be closer to $0.32.  Psssst: I got some hot dawht cawhm stocks I can let ya have real freakin' cheeeeep.  Solar...
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