"Beauty" as a Form of Rigid Thinking?
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Morgana wrote:
...If no one wanted to talk to me, I must not look good enough. Of course, when I asked some friends why no one was approaching me, they said the most important thing for men to be interested was that I had to "look good".
I think these ideas are where my whole mindset originated.
I only learned about non-verbal signals much later in life, and from books.

I only learned about non-verbal signals much later in life, and from books.
When the wrong information is passed around, it can persist for a very long time.
I have often found books to be more reliable than "word-of-mouth" (at least most of the time).
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'It happened of its own accord.' -Tao Te Ching, Verse 17
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