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Karin,
Wow! It seems that Toxic Overload is the appropriate name for this thread. The main thing that keeps puzzling me on this "forum" is the lack of the permission to be truly honest and open. This is a "forum," not a support group. Forums are public places that allow open opinions...not places where all must agree and be gentle with each other at the expense of the conversation.
Cynthia is a big girl, I'm sure that whether or not I believe as she believes will not hurt her. I doubt that she is that fragile. I have not attacked her, just brought new evidence to opinions that apparently are not popular with the folks on this site. Yet, whenever I voice my opinion there seems to be a quick gathering of the wagons to vilify my opinion.
Let's be clear. Years of experience is just anecdotal evidence and doesn't mean very much. For instance, if I have a friend who has smoked for 30 years and isn't dead then anecdotal evidence says, smoking isn't harmful. There are lots of stories of people getting hope from non-proven tactics, and this hope or relief can come from various places. Yet this sense of being helped is not scientific, nor demonstratable. I am just trying to bring a little less emotion and more facts into the conversation.
I didn't demand, anything of Cynthia, and I said my mind could be changed. That isn't "slammed shut." If you want to be truly sensitve on this Web site, then you will not call me insensitive, but will honor my opinion as well as Cynthia's.
Steve
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