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• Another Aaron commented on Avoid toxic people
  Ditto to everything Phikus said. It just seems common sense to me....
• Phikus commented on Avoid toxic people
  Troof: Thanks! Nice ground rules, which I wholeheartedly adhere to (although you can say "Shut Up!" in a good way.) Seems like we are on the right path, then, although I think we are equally matched on that last point. =D Another Aaron: Thank you, sir! It seems less common than once thought....
• TroofSeeker commented on Avoid toxic people
  Well said, Anon #150. I used to work in a reform school for... at the time they called them 'emotionally retarted' boys. My entire purpose of being there was to protect life and limb of old Mrs. Johnson. It was wild. Most of them went off most days. My favorite kid, Myles, would try to kill me every day with a pencil to the chest. He'd cool down and we'd be friends again. Good times. Somehow, tho, it wasn't emotionally draining to me. Maybe because I didn't have to get up in the middle of the night and listen to...
• Roast Beef commented on Avoid toxic people
  Treasure the ones who make your life glow. THIS! :) That is all....
• Tzctlp commented on Avoid toxic people
  Really ....: "If you are more tired then you have been poisoned. If you have more energy you have been nourished." So this "rule" (which should not be black and white according to a kind soul in this thread, in which case how could you call it a rule?) uses 2 criteria that are completely arbitrary and subjective, (levels of "energy", whatever that is, and levels of stimulation with "poisoning" and "nourishment" in opposite, equally hazy and undefined, extremes of the scale) in order to pigeon-hole people around you. Do we really need this kind of new agey quackery spread...