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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn chess, if you have no good options, and still must move, it's called Zugzwang.
And it means you lose. And losing always "looks weak".
Sometimes doing "nothing" is the best thing you can do, it's like "waiting" a bit. In fact, in my experience, most of the time, it's not time yet, there are no useful things you can do yet, so you wait.
Not everything can be fixed, and of those things which can be fixed, often it's still the case that YOU can't fix them.
People who try to threaten you or anger you or disgust you to get you to do something when you don't want to are salesmen, merchants, and they are not your friends. The very fact they are so vehement to get you to do something, this person who does not know you from Adam, and willing to jerk your chain emotionally to get at you, tells you to ignore what they say, they have an agenda, and it's not your well-being and autonomy.
Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugzwang
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Learn something new every day around here.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Sadly, there were no good moves in Iraq at that time either. As is evidenced, in part, by the current situation.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)xchrom
(108,903 posts)David__77
(23,220 posts)Thank you.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)Turborama
(22,109 posts)One thing I was a bit confused by, though. Why would they tell you to ignore what they say?
bemildred
(90,061 posts)They would be using various emotional levers to get you to agree with them and do what they want.
Rape, nuns, baby incubators, yellow cake, WMDs, religion, race, anything to make you stop thinking and get upset and irrational instead.
Turborama
(22,109 posts)That's why I got confused by it being in here... (maybe I read the context wrong?)
"The very fact they are so vehement to get you to do something, this person who does not know you from Adam, and willing to jerk your chain emotionally to get at you, tells you to ignore what they say, they have an agenda, and it's not your well-being and autonomy."
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Perhaps I should restucture the sentence, it's a bad sentence really, I tend to be oblivious to such things as I read lots of academic prose.
Turborama
(22,109 posts)I'm scrolling down using a tiny BlackBerry screen, so it could could have something to do with that.
Thanks for the clarification.
delrem
(9,688 posts)Threedifferentones
(1,070 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)many angles.
"The very fact they are so vehement to get you to do something ... " (or anything)
to me means you are in a strong position and they want to provoke you into second guessing yourself and changing your stance, literally or intellectually, to make you more vulnerable to their ploys.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)mac56
(17,561 posts)Sharing (with attribution, of course).
bemildred
(90,061 posts)mac56
(17,561 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)Please, .. save it.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)Like sending food and necessities and taking people in, you don't even have to take sides, if fact it's safer if you don't. Of course, we won't get much in return, but we'll feel better about ourselves, and that can be worth a lot.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)KG
(28,749 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)nth dimensional chess was being played in our leader's first four years. Not so. The forces of our profit driven economy get to any president either easily as in the case of most RW rethug politicians or surreptitiously threaten a POTUS person who might have wanted to provide 'hope and change' into coming around to their point of view. Oswald was not 'the lone shooter'. I can't wait to see the change in Dr. Warren IF she makes to being POTUS. Just surmising, no concrete proof of any goddamn thing.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)this is when a chess player topples his king.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)And that is why they like to hurry you along, so you don't think it over, and so they can get on to the next sucker.
tridim
(45,358 posts)Not even close, it's a rout every time.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)Response to cthulu2016 (Reply #36)
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hunter
(38,264 posts).
bemildred
(90,061 posts)leftstreet
(36,081 posts)Interesting!
Thanks for posting this