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Deftly handled, particularly this close to Valentine’s Day. Huge fan.

Superb volley at the net. Lesser men would have flubbed it. You did not and the world is forever in your debt.

Well played.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

I think she is super and could be a model! Frankly she is to strong willed for the job even though she has UK/US citizenship (born while father was stationed in the UK!

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Wow, what a Super Bowl quality reply. Not a thing to disagree with.

Are you married to a super model? And is she a legal immigrant?

Well played. Thank you, Tim Bates.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

If a leader can drive for long enough the non- winners begin to grow silent. Human nature likes winners it is in our DNA. Others will loose their relevancy over time.

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Oh, Hell, does that I mean I can’t sell it? I’ve already got 8 buyers.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

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I always enjoy your musical selections. Thank you and be well. Great thoughts.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

I grew up emphasizing the rationalize side and not the emotionalize side, and that was good in some ways and bad in others.

Here is some of the bad: To understand emotions, likely need to start with those emotions best known to you, your own.

If don’t understand emotions and pursue just rationalism, then often will hurt the emotions of others, intending to or not, and that’s a good way not to get invited to the dance, party, meeting, dinner, anything.

For a mistake, just assume that others are highly devoted to rationalism and are willing to suppress their emotionalism, their “feelings” in favor of (your version of) rationalism! That’s a good way to have a lot of time alone.

Early on, I liked music, a lot. But I liked instrumental music, that is, without words. Why? Because I could find the words less than fully rational.

So, the instrumental music did an end run around filters of rationalism!

So, tough not to like

R. Strauss, The Blue Danube, Vienna Philharnonic Orchestra.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6t318FgFdc

right, with four pretty girls!

For more pretty girls,

Australian Ballet, Coppélia, 1990

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK6koS1b0uQ

right, where an old guy wants a pretty girl so much he tries to make one, Coppélia, in his workshop.

So, lots of emotionalism, and can’t argue with its meaning on the grounds of rationalism!

Next, once understand feelings, need to try to guess the feelings of others and, then, to respond in ways that help their feelings. This skill is difficult enough if know to try and learn and do try and much more difficult if don’t even know to try.

Next lesson, I got from an expert:

Of COURSE, women are MUCH more emotional than men. That is the cause of all the problems between men and women.

One of the biggest mistakes I made was to fail to understand the emotions of the girl I knew when she was 12-13 and I, 14-15. Now that I understand MUCH more than I did then and remember many of the clues I got then, I can guess what the heck was going on: Net, every second we were together, maybe 500 hours alone, many women and girls had told her some really scary things about boys and men; her emotions were screaming at her; and she was struggling with all her strength not to give in to her emotions.

In short, she was 99 44/100% emotions and the rest water. She was also the prettiest human female I ever saw, in person or otherwise, e.g., from Hollywood or models. Literally. No joke. She was a total dream — pretty, sweet, darling, adorable, precious.

Rationalism? That was my job, and I was good at it, but I also needed to understand her emotions and do mostly just two things: (1) Via her emotions make her happy — the happiest hours I ever had were when I was with her and she was happy to be with me (no doubt one of Mother Nature’s favorite ideas). (2) Keep her safe.

I was big on keeping her safe; without any consideration of rationalism, I would have instantly risked my life to defend or protect her. No joke. Indeed, once to accept her invitation to come see her, I had two choices: (1) Walk my bicycle on a sidewalk and be late or (2) ride my bicycle in the street, four lanes, fast, heavy traffic, with no room for a bicycle, with cars going by me 1 foot away at 40 MPH. I took (2) where I could have been knocked off my bicycle and run over 10 times, seriously injured or killed. I knew it was that dangerous but didn’t want to be late to see my girl. I’d ridden to another state, nearly to a third one, all over my city and out of town, and that one night was by far the most dangerous riding I did. I had about 25% chance of dying.

I really liked the girl; right, grand understatement since I really loved the girl. Lots of emotionalism. But, what the heck is the purpose of rationalism if not to enable emotionalism?

I would have been much more willing to risk my life to defend or protect her.

That girl and I could have done really well, safely, been high school sweethearts, gotten married, done well as husband and wife, mother and father, parents and grandparents, and, thus, achieved “the greatest prize life has to offer”. But, due to my failure to understand her emotions, from the strong clues I did have, we had a misunderstanding and lost that great opportunity.

The desire to keep a girl happy is not nearly new: A common situation is a daughter of 4 having her father wrapped around her little finger: She has learned that to get whatever she wants from Daddy, at most she has just to shed a tear — one is enough, two already suspicious overkill! With two tears she will start to look no merely sad but manipulative, which if course commonly soon she is!

Lesson: Emotions are darned important, and everyone needs to understand emotions, both their own and those of others.

This day, Super Bowl LI plus 1, is a good day to understand rationalism versus emotionalism!

For rationalism, it does look like in the first half of the game Brady came to understand the Falcon defense, and in the second half he took that defense apart like a kid taking apart, say, Daddy’s lawn mower engine! Ah, Brady did rationalism!

But, now, in

Warner Todd Huston, “A Legion of Liberals in Despair Over Patriots Win”. Breitbart, 6 Feb 2017.

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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/06/legion-liberals-despair-patriots-win/

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Immediately the hash tag #notmysuperbowlchampion started trending with many slamming Brady and Trump.

Naturally, many liberals were crushed by Super Bowl 51 and took to Twitter to lament that it felt just as bad as how they felt on Election Day last November when Trump pulled his own come-from-behind win.

Um Atlanta actually won if you look at this other metric that nobody counts.#notmysuperbowlchampion pic.twitter.com/hHmDhpsOvY

Did the Russians hack the Super Bowl, too? Is nothing sacred?

— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman) February 6, 2017

the emotionalizing snowflakes were melting!

For more, as in

Ken Klukowski, “Travesty of Legal Errors in Immigration EO Lawsuit”, Breitbart, 6 Feb 2017.

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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/06/travesty-legal-errors-immigration-eo-lawsuit/

the judge’s temporary restraining order (TRO) of Trump’s executive order (EO) banning immigration from a few heavily poor, heavily desert, heavily Mid-East and African countries, long ago identified by the previous Administration, was some really badly written legal work.

So, with such bad rationalism, we have to suspect a gross excess of emotionalism.

That’s the bad news.

Maybe the good news is that it is fairly clear that the TRO and the whole action will be rejected by the courts. Then the challenges to Trump’s EO will be dead.

So, for some more good news, if get sued, have some overly emotional plaintiffs low on rationalism do the suing so that have an easier time winning the case!

The Age of Feels has become the Age of Results.

http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/feelings-v-facts-sea-change/

Never, ever bet against guys married to super model, legal immigrant wives?

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com