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WCDT: 2878-2882 (19-23 January 2015)
Method of Madness:
You know you could just mix the porridges.
DillyDolly:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 23 Jan 2015, 14:43 ---You know you could just mix the porridges.
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Or feed the bears little red riding hood. She did break into their home after all.
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: madamlark on 23 Jan 2015, 14:39 ---Never been much of a Faye fan, she's just plain mean sometimes and there's no way I would put up with that in an actual friend. I get enough jerky behavior from other people, I don't need it from the people I have in my life that I choose to spend extra time with.
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Emphasis added.
So, there's a super huge point in there that isn't being acknowledged about both Dora and Faye. Choice.
These people hang out with each other by choice. Neither has been dishonest, by any normal standard, about who they are. Quite the opposite. They aren't taking advantage of their friends. They are, instead, saying "this is me, flaws and all." And their friends are saying, "Cool." It's like they are getting accepted for who they are.
Weird, I know.
Hmmm.... Acceptance. Synonymous with inclusion. I wonder what the word of God is on inclusion. Inclusion, though, is kind of a given--that is, if you aren't inclusive you're probably being a jerk. (Not that being a jerk isn't the default for for humanity. It totally is.) Acceptance does go a step farther, because there are things it's morally permissible to reject. To accept is to give blessing to. It is saying, "I think this is of value."
Not that anyone should change their opinion of characters they don't like. But it's kinda of relevant. The flaws being cited are known and accepted by the friends. If they see them as a burden, it's one they willingly picked up. I think that's part of how friendship works.
We all suck. And as cool as we might play it, our friends are probably familiar with most of the ways we suck, just as we are with their flaws. We go on accepting it all, anyway.
edit: of course, to accept can also be to tolerate. But in this case it still amounts to a value judgement, because everyone has a choice. This isn't forced tolerance if it is tolerance. It's tolerance because the good outweighs the bad.
Oenone:
Actually that was Goldilocks.
Going back to the mechanics of barista-ness: I'm at a coffee shop right now, there was just a brief rush, and the windows all fogged up because of the quantity of drinks steamed.
Method of Madness:
I'm still ashamed every time I see your name because I totally had forgotten that Paris was fucking married already when he went to Sparta to kidnap/consensually abscond with* Helen.
*Given the time, I suppose the latter isn't really likely
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