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There was a plaque that my mother used to hang on the wall. It said, "Never answer an angry word with an angry word, it's the second that makes the quarrel."
In life, sometimes the most difficult thing to do is simply shut one's mouth and walk away. When a human being demonstrates that he or she wishes to argue (as opposed to discuss), the decision is made to engage in a negative exchange with another human being that rarely ever ends in mutual edification or satisfaction. Where does this desire come from that makes us want to "make our point" at the expense of someone else's ego? Pride. "He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself." |