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Refenestrated's avatar

I'm looking forward to these sessions. For most of my life I have been quick to anger, and it is only in the last couple of years that I've made any progress, limited as it may have been, towards reducing that tendency. I read somewhere that anger is often a psychological defense against feeling one of the more vulnerable emotions like hurt, sadness, or fear, and I've found that to be true in my own experience. When I do still find myself getting angry, if I have the presence of mind to remember to examine whether there's something underneath it that I'm trying not to feel, I usually find that there is, and that tends to turn the volume of the anger down.

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Barry Brownstein's avatar

Thank you for sharing your very important insight. Anger is indeed a defense mechanism; most importantly, it keeps us from realizing who we truly are. I'm looking forward to working with you on Seneca's ideas.

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Ricardo's avatar

...and for a long time, when I heard the word "stoic", the word picture I got was a tree stump.

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Ricardo's avatar

Looking forward to Seneca's evaluation of the Daniel Penny case. Remember that David, "The Man After God's Own Heart" wrote in Psalm 139: 21Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

22I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

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