The world gets a lot less stressful when you start thinking about people as if they were machines.
You can take it in another direction, too. Think about all the intricate and beautiful biological and chemical processes that lead to the mere functioning of a human being, its ability to think, and its ability to vocalize thoughts in a comprehensible way, and you just might distract yourself from the moronic things that one is saying! ;)
… although, actually, that IS what you were saying. But I inferred a different attitude than the one I intend.
You can take it in another direction, too. Think about all the intricate and beautiful biological and chemical processes that lead to the mere functioning of a human being, its ability to think, and its ability to vocalize thoughts in a comprehensible way, and you just might distract yourself from the moronic things that one is saying! ;)
… although, actually, that IS what you were saying. But I inferred a different attitude than the one I intend.