tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post1284748291652153367..comments2024-03-29T15:13:42.610+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: On being irritableBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-89480482874546598982013-07-30T20:06:59.765+01:002013-07-30T20:06:59.765+01:00You're welcome!
My irritability is too long l...You're welcome!<br /><br />My irritability is too long lasting and deep rooted to be explicable by any environmental cause. Clearly it is my character. Also, if I were not irritable, I would not blog regularly (and indeed many people's favourites among my postings were those done in a white heat of irritability!). <br /><br />So this is what we find...Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-27985474397162950682013-07-30T18:48:42.538+01:002013-07-30T18:48:42.538+01:00I shall appropriate that apology, thank you. : )
...I shall appropriate that apology, thank you. : )<br /><br />I tend to be irritable too, in person, though it only manifests itself at certain times, in certain circumstances. It's one of the mysteries of my life: how to figure out what triggers it and how to avoid it. Is it things that I eat? Medicines that I take? Alcohol? Sugar? I have definitely noticed a correlation between irritability and caffeine or Sudafed (pseudoephedrine) and try to avoid those. <br /><br />Online I avoid showing it by making myself take the time to calm down before posting. That's much harder to do in "real life". Agelliushttp://agellius.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-48862690096367523082013-07-28T03:25:31.976+01:002013-07-28T03:25:31.976+01:00Ah a subject close to my heart.
I am an intolerab...Ah a subject close to my heart. <br />I am an intolerably irritable git, or so I am often told. It may be true, and the fact that I was often accused of it, used to make me feel inadequate and bad. <br />Now I don't care. There are far worse things a person might be. And I find the same people who accuse me of irritability also accuse me of those far worse things. <br />I become intensely irritable at displays of incompetence and stupidity, and actually, that hardly seems surprising. <br />The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04323413604073160469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-53856997604517395442013-07-27T16:40:26.040+01:002013-07-27T16:40:26.040+01:00Is irritability not the shadow side of intolerance...Is irritability not the shadow side of intolerance for mediocrity and a drive for excellence?<br /><br />Irritability is not the same thing as the divine intolerance Lazare spoke of, but it seems to me there is a connection.<br /><br />"All those on the contrary who labor, all the daring ones, the innovators were fanatics and intolerant; all those who want to innovate and create must be intolerant and fanatics. They must chase far from themselves any idea, any vision hostile to their dream, any dogma that negates the ideal they want to pursue and that they hope to reach. They should fight for the existence of their idea the same way they’d fight for the preservation of their energy, the same way they’d fight for life. They shouldn’t listen to the indifferent or fools, and they should know that the day they renounce their attitude, the day they renounce the defense of the ivory tower in which they’ve enclosed their dream, they will lose any power of seeing it succeed.<br /><br />Whoever you might be, young people: atheists or Catholics, conservatives or anarchists, naturalists, psychologists or symbolists, if your faith is sincere, if you haven’t chosen them for reasons you can’t confess to or that are low, but rather freely and in keeping with the natural disposition of your spirit, be intolerant!"cantillonbloghttp://cantillonblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-12958159019921248462013-07-27T11:51:41.618+01:002013-07-27T11:51:41.618+01:00@d - Well, it's not a virtue... It's a que...@d - Well, it's not a virtue... It's a question of proportion - I don't think over-reacting to minor annoyances equates to divine righteous anger! Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-48739564065917282832013-07-27T10:49:49.358+01:002013-07-27T10:49:49.358+01:00I can see it's a defect, but is it really a si...I can see it's a defect, but is it really a sin?<br /><br />In the Old Testament God comes over as irritable, to put it mildly.deariemenoreply@blogger.com