Sam & Sara #382 Sara: How do you reason with the unreasonable? Sam: By showing them that they are unreasonable. Sara: What if they are really beyond reasoning? Sam: Be more unreasonable than them, so that they will appreciate reasonability! Sara: And reason with me! Even though some might...

Just because another stops arguing with you, it does not mean you have won. It might mean there is no reasoning with you. Just because you keep arguing with another, it does not mean you are winning. It might mean there is no reasoning with you. Just because another keeps arguing with you, it...

If there is universally accepted reasoning, there would be not a single conflict in the world. The question is whether the deluded can or are willing to acknowledge sound reasoning to be reasonable, whether the less deluded can or are willing to show why it is reasonable. (I used to think...

A Tit for a Tat (347) Tit: You can never win a seriously deluded person in argument – even if you have good reasoning! Tat: I just hope I am not the deluded one, who imagines myself having good reasoning! Tit: Most of us alternate between being the more deluded and the less deluded...

To sing with much emotion but with little reason, a song can be moving, but in a wrong direction. (Hey, it kinda...

From ‘Batman: Lovers and Madmen’ by Michael Green… Gordon: Damnest thing. Like there’s motive. Batman: There’s always a motive. What makes the Joker particularly dangerous is his unpredictability. Even though Batman is very unpredictable too, Batman is more...

His bipolar swinging of reason and emotion in this life is just like a compression of my ‘bipolar’ swinging of reason and emotion from life to life. Enough to sicken him, to want to end the cycle, to want to awaken. I too, should feel likewise, before I swing again in another...

We should avoid harsh speech unless it is really needed to wake up another (with good intentions), while we should see harsh speech from others as a wake-up call. Even if that scolded over is unreasonable, it is still a wake-up call – to practise patience, to seek more understanding on the...

A Tit for a Tat (90) Tit: Can you promise me something? Tat: I’ll need to know if it’s something rational first. Tit: Don’t worry. It is rational. Tat: I do worry! Tit: Why worry? Tat: Because if it’s rational, you would tell me about it first! Next aT4aT:...