Guilt and Shame

Today's Tids Issue 2,189
Opening Stuff:

I looked up synonyms for “diet” in my thesaurus, and found myself at words for loss.

It’s a good idea to continue keeping a cautious eye on the stock market. Remember this is still Summer, when volumes are low and the so-called “experts” are in the Hamptons or NE Islands and Capes. In addition, all of these good profit reports were mainly mixed on revenues. Will there be enough new cash flowing during this third quarter to keep the BL numbers positive in early October? October is the month! Mark that down.

I like this new Republican effort to repeal the segment of the 14th Amendment that allows illegal aliens who are stealing social services to create “anchor babies”. You will be hearing lots about this in the next two months. It’s one of those things that just makes sense. And it couldn’yt happen faster as far as I’m concerned.

The Question:
Two fading characteristics of modern society are shame and guilt. Too many people are so enabled or idolatrized that these two former safeguards against excess and irresponsibility are vanishing before our naïve eyes. But there is a difference between shame and guilt. What is it?

The Headlines:
--Ahmadinejad Unhurt In Blast Near Presidential Motorcade; Gov Officials Say Blast Just “Fireworks”; EeeeeHah!
--Oil Well Plugged; 75% of Spilled Oil Gone.
--Fired Manchester CT Man Kills 8 Fellow Employees; Blames It OIn race; Company Says He Was Stealing Beer From Company, A beer Distributor.
--Another Incumbent Falls; The November 2 “Take Out The Trash” day Rumbles On.
--Service Sector Jobs Show Increase In July.
--US Stocks Show Life On So-So Data.

Back to More Stuff:

More good photo’s are ruined when the “Time/Date Stamp” is inadvertently turned on.

The demise of “shame” is directly correlated to the rise in publicists.

You may have seen the chart that shows the % of business people in presidential cabinets and other key offices. The chart shows 0-Man at 9% versus othe r presidents – T. Roosevelt - 38%, Taft - 40%, Wilson - 52%, Harding - 49%, Coolidge - 48%, Hoover - 42%, FDR - 50%, Truman - 50%, Eisenhower - 57%, Kennedy - 30%, LBJ - 47%, Nixon - 53% , Ford - 42%, Carter - 32%, Reagan - 56%, GHWB - 51%, Clinton - 39% and GWB - 55%. Obviously this chart clearly shows the lack of experience in the real world by people in charge of telling us our real world should operate. However, I never just report findings such as these, but most to the time do additional research as to the validity. In this case I found many stories with the same numbers and one 0-Man fan disputing them. He came up with 68% private sector for Prime Time. He did this by including a couple of early career lawyers, a lot of lobbyists and heads of not for profit quasi-governmental agencies. So, I guess the 0-Man supporter has proven what all of us fear – The 0-Admin knows big government.

There is a distinct possibility that fresh hot off the griddle versions of Tids in the morning will be missing the next few days as I take a little time off. This means that TTSE will be back next Monday when I return for sure. As we begin the drive to an exciting, unexpected an tearful ending. I can hardly wait to see how it ends myself!

I would define "amorailty" as the absense of shame and guilt.

Any purposeful misuse of words to produce dry humor is purely pun-intentional.

The more a government spends, the more the citizens become reliant on the government.

Is August over yet?

The Answer:
The main difference between guilt and shame can be characterized by the two phrases “What I did” versus “Who I am” Shame is more often the emotional reaction to guilt. Guilt may be described feeling responsible for actions we regret. Shame on the other hand may be defined as a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming or impropriety. Shame is a much stronger more profound emotion than guilt and can be quite destructive. Of course severe guilt over matters out of our control is also very destructive. A book could be written just about these two words. And many novels often are.

The End:
But, then I may feel guilty and a little ashamed, and start writing the Tids anyhow. You never know when an addiction is going to jump up and grab you.

Do you ever think that illegal aliens feel guilty when the US Government reaches deep inside your wallet to give them a check?