"Watch your own speech, and notice how it is guided by your less conscious purposes."
~ George Eliot ~
Some conversational topics are toxic to our well-being: religion and politics being chief among them. Strongly held opinions and inflexible perspectives do not make for open discussion and a meeting of the minds, and interacting in such a case is more like being pummeled with a machine-gun than being led intellectually to a new point of view.
I avoid toxic conversations.
