Originally Posted by jwb

1) No the advice I have offered is so basic and common sense that there's prestige behind giving it. And really lately I've only given it in response when you start trying to preach hopelessness to me.

2) it's beyond you not wanting advice. You also resent any sign of hope or positive thinking I have about what i feel I can change in my own life. You're not just rejecting self help, you're promoting misery.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.