Re: Which book sounds most compelling?

Bill Swears wrote:
Brian M. Scott wrote:
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:06:49 -0800, Bill Swears
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This is a good case in point. By informing David that his
approach to understanding Zeborah's issue works
differently from your own approaches to cognition, is
taken as self-centred, callous, or worse, you're telling
him that you think he's self-centered, callous or worse. But he isn't any of those things.

His behavior in rasfc has been both.

So has mine, at times. I could probably find a similar point for you, though it would take a bit of searching. Aqua isn't a bad guy, she's a good guy, and I have committed a fox paws.

I'm not a guy, actually.

Aqua
much eye rolling.
.

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