Tag: answers
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What Do I Have To Do? – Part One – Wake Up
When we ask ourselves what we have to do, we touch the deepest part of our existence. If we are wise, we touch it lightly, and with clean fingers. Many time in my life I have asked myself this question – and I am sure that every reader has, as well. Sometimes I have found…
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If You Want A Clear Answer
Ask a clear question. And then listen to the reply in its entirety. Too many marriages, careers, and theories fail at just this point; the hidden question, the half-heard answer. And the thinkless thought. Play fair with others and yourself. If you want to know, ask. Ask clearly. Listen just as clearly. Take your enquiry…
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For Joseph Ntale
A young man has responded to my Onabout post with a blog of his own, and I appreciate it. So here is my advice on how to answer detractors… Detractors? People who seek to put you down. I wonder if it is opposed to ” tractors “…people who try to pull you up. I suppose…
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Is That Really You?
I hope not. The art of the fatuous question and incongruous answer is an important part of our social structure. if we cannot puzzle people with foolish questions or give equally nonsensical answers we are going to have to fall back on sharp repartee – and that will cut tongues and ears. Remember – some…
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” Do I Look Like An Idiot ? “
A yawning chasm. Death at the bottom of it and pain all the way down. ” What kind of an idiot do you think I am? “ Still yawning, but you get to choose which side of the rocks you bounce off on the way to the pit. ” Do I look like an idiot…
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Why Do You Ask?
When someone doesn’t answer a question directly, but replies with this question in return, the game is afoot. For those who ask questions backed by real authority – the policeman, magistrate, military officer, etc. – receiving a defensive question is as good as hearing an admission of guilt. It just remains to see what sort.…
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The Defensive Answer
Have you ever been asked a question you didn’t want to answer…yet felt you had to…and gave a defensive reply. Beginner’s mistake. Read on and find out what to do. Firstly, the business of questions is a limited one – few people have the right to ask them and fewer still the power to compel…
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Don’t Ask The Question If You Don’t Want To Hear The Answer
Which is probably a good place to stop this column because it just about covers it all. But I have a page to fill and with a bit of luck your computer will freeze just about now and you’ll be forced to read it anyway. The title is one of those things that you eventually…