Danger Anger
Question of the Day: Are you angry about anything?
Related question: How do you express your anger? Is it healthy for you and for others?
posted by MaxVel @ 6:24 PM
4 comments
Friday, July 29, 2005
Question of the Day: Are you angry about anything?
Related question: How do you express your anger? Is it healthy for you and for others?
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- Name: MaxVel
- Location: Thailand
Older than I look, smarter than I think I am, not as wise as I'd like to be
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. - C.S. Lewis
4 Comments:
Ask the Auzzies Davo.. they have lost TWO successive games to the Boks the last two weekends..
Springboks 22-16 winners over the Wallabies in Pretoria yesterday (stuff)
The NZ Golden Sports Rule: "Support NZ and anyone playing Australia"
Scottster.
Heh - that doesn't make me angry at all!
What is it with NZ-Australia?
Are NZers more obsessed with beating the Aussies than the Aussies are with beating us? I suspect so...
I think it depends on what mean by anger. I know that might sound a little too picky, but I just want to be clear :)
When I think of anger, I think of a strong negative emotional reaction to a situation that isn't how we want it to be. In this case it is a negative reaction because of the tendency to want cause harm or suffering through verbal or physical violence. This stems from a form of selfishness that forgets that suffering begets suffering. This selfishness says that you know all there is to know about a situation and you are entitled to judge it (including any people involved) as worthy or unworthy.
This is different from having a great passion to prevent suffering or rectify the causes of sufering. From the humble and compassionate perspective one can oppose injustice, inequity, and inhumanity without sucumbing to anger.
That being said, I tend to be quickly annoyed but usually I can catch myself before saying or doing anything that fuels my anger. I firmly believe we come to a point where we consciously choose to drop our anger or give into it, and I choose to drop it.
You make a good point to distinguish between anger that pushes us into folly and anger that motivates us into positive action.
It is a wise man indeed who can control his anger...
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