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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5485228" data-attributes="member: 19675">I read your whole post, actually.  But I was making a point.In recent years, I've been involved in pursuing a degree in Conflict Resolution.  I've reaches a certain point in that pursuit to be certified in the state of Texas in that field and have gone beyond that as well.And one of the things you learn in the earliest stages of that training is that when you phrase things a certain way, you utterly wreck your chances of persuading someone to your position.By using the phrase you did, when you did, you negated the content of your subsequent words.  You may as well not have written those words as far as some would be concerned.So while I DID read your whole post, others may not have.  And even if they did, that paragraph's opening sentence could be ringing in their heads like the bells of Notre Dame, drowning out your more conciliatory language.IOW, while the opening to your last post recognizes this problem, you still initiated the second half of your post in such a way that indicates you haven't internalized the lesson you were talking about when you started.  You delivered your message in a way that the how drowned out the content.</blockquote>