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In article <45e3hj$19l@transfer.stratus.com>,
John Fereira <fereira@isis.com> wrote:
>In article <459st1$sh4@crl.crl.com> gunhed@crl.com (Steve Chaney) writes:
>>
>>In article <457s5u$c3g@news.computek.net>, Fish <> wrote:
>>>If you find it not within you, you will never find it without
>>
>>And how do you develop it within you?
>>
>>It's as simple to wake up one day and say "I'm confident!  I'm happy!" as
>>it is for a dead battery to suddenly recharge itself.
>>
>>Think on that.
> 
>I did and wondered what purpose that analogy serves.  It's quite true
>that confidence isn't something that is going develop overnight but is 
>that really a problem?  The analogy seems to indicate that you see the
>advocacy of inherent confidence as an instant solution to the "dating
>problem".  So what if developing confidence *does* take time.  It's still
>a reasonable goal to achieve that is going to make someone more attractive
>to a MOTAS.  No, you don't just wake up one day and "I'm confident.  I'm
>happy."  If you're doing this then you probably really aren't.  If the
>confidence and sense of happiness develops over time eventually you just
>"know" and don't have to reinforce it by telling yourself that you are.
>There is no such thing as "acting confident".  Either you are or you're not.

And so your punishment until you conform (become confident) is isolation
from MOTAS?


-- Steve