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godef comments on Feb 15, 2018:
The NRA isn't about having guns to protect self and property, it's really about grown babies who have to have their toys. Grow up already you babies, there's no Santa Claus.
Freedompath replies on Feb 16, 2018:
@jayneonacobb 'yea, protest to much,' my friend! And, where are your facts to support your position...the 2nd Amendment? The 2nd Amendment, was never intended to give guns to every 'Tom, Dick and Harry in this country! Read, 'the founding fathers,' not just the words in the amendment! They were reasonable people...not emotionally driven, gun nuts!
godef comments on Feb 15, 2018:
The NRA isn't about having guns to protect self and property, it's really about grown babies who have to have their toys. Grow up already you babies, there's no Santa Claus.
Freedompath replies on Feb 16, 2018:
@jayneonacobb 'yea, protest to much,' my friend! And, where are your facts to support your position...the 2nd Amendment? The 2nd Amendment, was never intended to give guns to every 'Tom, Dick and Harry in this country! Read, 'the founding fathers,' not just the words in the amendment! They were reasonable people...not emotionally driven, gun nuts!
Is it just me or does others find it undignified for our VP Mike Pence, who said that he 'ignored ...
Davesnothere comments on Feb 15, 2018:
NO Pence fan here
BUT
Kim Jon Uns Sister is the head of Propaganda in North Korea, any and every Photo op with her will be used by her ONLY as The Leader sees fit.
Do Anything with that particular woman is to feed their propagana machine.
Freedompath replies on Feb 16, 2018:
@Davesnothere that has a ring of truth in it...but, we are not looking to good to the rest of the world, just now! And, we need support and respect...just in case! A friend in Vietnam, who keeps up with world views, tells me how we are practically made fun of now, in that part of the world! That only gives Kim, fuel...in my opinion! Let's not forget he was schooled in the US, he knows something about us. At least what we once were!
Davesnothere comments on Feb 15, 2018:
NO Pence fan here
BUT
Kim Jon Uns Sister is the head of Propaganda in North Korea, any and every Photo op with her will be used by her ONLY as The Leader sees fit.
Do Anything with that particular woman is to feed their propagana machine.
Freedompath replies on Feb 16, 2018:
@Davesnothere that has a ring of truth in it...but, we are not looking to good to the rest of the world, just now! And, we need support and respect...just in case! A friend in Vietnam, who keeps up with world views, tells me how we are practically made fun of now, in that part of the world! That only gives Kim, fuel...in my opinion! Let's not forget he was schooled in the US, he knows something about us. At least what we once were!
Another f@!king mass shooting here in America! At least 17 dead, 23 injured.
Lancer comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The issue has and always will be
1) a lack of parenting
2) the presence of mental illness
Gun laws don't stop mass shootings. Australia is a good example. The port Arthur massacre was done using illegal guns. 35 killed, 23 wounded. Done using illegal weapons.
Gun laws don't stop gun ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 16, 2018:
@Lancer I agree, in a perfect world, all families need to be together and supportive of one another, but some families are better off, separated. I my self, choose a partner before I knew who I was. Even without the alcoholism, it was a pitiful match that produced 5 children and I was brought up to believe that you stayed in a marriage...period! My children got a lot of 'imprinting' due to my misery in that relationship. And, that is not counting the distortion from the alcoholic side. My successful adult children struggle with self worth and pain that interferes with coping in their adult life, simply because i could not be fully present when each child needed me the most. On the other hand, if I had stayed in that marriage, I likely, would not be here today. Religions, are not geared to teach coping skills, they mostly ...can only offer an altered state of consciousness, a kind of fantasy...that in my mind does not exist! And, the world is mostly religious. They present a mostly black and white view of what living in the real world looks like. This 'altered state' did not work for me and I lay exposed to the world and could not protect myself, because I did not have the skills to do that. It took years to develop those skills. But, I want to point out that I passed on my heartache and pain inadvertently...to my young children!
Lancer comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The issue has and always will be
1) a lack of parenting
2) the presence of mental illness
Gun laws don't stop mass shootings. Australia is a good example. The port Arthur massacre was done using illegal guns. 35 killed, 23 wounded. Done using illegal weapons.
Gun laws don't stop gun ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 16, 2018:
@Lancer I agree, in a perfect world, all families need to be together and supportive of one another, but some families are better off, separated. I my self, choose a partner before I knew who I was. Even without the alcoholism, it was a pitiful match that produced 5 children and I was brought up to believe that you stayed in a marriage...period! My children got a lot of 'imprinting' due to my misery in that relationship. And, that is not counting the distortion from the alcoholic side. My successful adult children struggle with self worth and pain that interferes with coping in their adult life, simply because i could not be fully present when each child needed me the most. On the other hand, if I had stayed in that marriage, I likely, would not be here today. Religions, are not geared to teach coping skills, they mostly ...can only offer an altered state of consciousness, a kind of fantasy...that in my mind does not exist! And, the world is mostly religious. They present a mostly black and white view of what living in the real world looks like. This 'altered state' did not work for me and I lay exposed to the world and could not protect myself, because I did not have the skills to do that. It took years to develop those skills. But, I want to point out that I passed on my heartache and pain inadvertently...to my young children!
Apart from Sadoi, who else found love here? It looks like impossible.
SocraticAddict comments on Feb 16, 2018:
Staying optimistic but nothing yet. Optimism might run out if I'm in the same boat after another 25 years though.
Freedompath replies on Feb 16, 2018:
You will only be about 50...life begins at 50! Best of luck to you...
SocraticAddict comments on Feb 16, 2018:
Staying optimistic but nothing yet. Optimism might run out if I'm in the same boat after another 25 years though.
Freedompath replies on Feb 16, 2018:
You will only be about 50...life begins at 50! Best of luck to you...
Is it just me or does others find it undignified for our VP Mike Pence, who said that he 'ignored ...
GreenAtheist comments on Feb 15, 2018:
His excuse is that bro murdered their brother in an airport with biological weapon and she is propaganda minister hiding the facts how people are starving by the hundreds of thousands and the huge prison population. .....I hate Pence for his insane religious policies and how he brags he is: ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 16, 2018:
Yes...it can certainly be expressed the way you put it! What is a BIG mystery to me is...is why an ex governer, probably way more formally educated than me, does not know how to extend simply 'regard' toward another human being? I grew up very poor, got GED.and one year of college, and I know that 'regard' is just good manners! But, in Pence's case it would show that Americans can rise above the frey...we have dignity! It could even bring Kim, to hesitate...my god, 'Rome wasn't built in a day!' I think I SEE too much...I would like to be in this world to see how this all plays out...but it seems that to turn this situation around, it will take some elected officials with SOME vision and most of those people we have elected, can't even find a solution to our immmagration issue...it seems to be above their level of intelligence!
GreenAtheist comments on Feb 15, 2018:
His excuse is that bro murdered their brother in an airport with biological weapon and she is propaganda minister hiding the facts how people are starving by the hundreds of thousands and the huge prison population. .....I hate Pence for his insane religious policies and how he brags he is: ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 16, 2018:
Yes...it can certainly be expressed the way you put it! What is a BIG mystery to me is...is why an ex governer, probably way more formally educated than me, does not know how to extend simply 'regard' toward another human being? I grew up very poor, got GED.and one year of college, and I know that 'regard' is just good manners! But, in Pence's case it would show that Americans can rise above the frey...we have dignity! It could even bring Kim, to hesitate...my god, 'Rome wasn't built in a day!' I think I SEE too much...I would like to be in this world to see how this all plays out...but it seems that to turn this situation around, it will take some elected officials with SOME vision and most of those people we have elected, can't even find a solution to our immmagration issue...it seems to be above their level of intelligence!
Another f@!king mass shooting here in America! At least 17 dead, 23 injured.
Lancer comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The issue has and always will be
1) a lack of parenting
2) the presence of mental illness
Gun laws don't stop mass shootings. Australia is a good example. The port Arthur massacre was done using illegal guns. 35 killed, 23 wounded. Done using illegal weapons.
Gun laws don't stop gun ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 16, 2018:
@RavenCT I surely agree with everything you said, but the police are not of the right mind set... to be helpful. Have you not seen the number of mentally ill people who have been killed in the last few years by the police? There have been 1200 police killings in the last year! Police are military...they are to much a part of the problem! I got to kmow my sheriff, personally, after the police did a raid on the wrong house and threw a 'bomb' in a baby's crib and blew a hole in it's chest and face, i have forgotten if it was 9mons or 19 months old...but it was a horrible incident here! My sheriff's intellectual capacity would never be helpful for mentally people! NEVER! This was after my incident. A few years back, when I called the help hot line, because the 'bottom fell out'...(I had not been taking my meds, and in the last 5 yrs, I have had little support for mental health.) So I called a NMHI, hot line... I needed a hand up and after talking to a gal, and realizing that I needed to get back on meds, I knew I would be ok. But the hot line called the police and 2 officers showed up. The first one came in and i was crying and as he was looking around my place, another officer showed up and the minute I laid eyes on him I knew he was not 'right'...first he came over toward me and angrily and hatefully told me...'get over there and sit down.' At least I had the presence of mind, to DEMAND, that the first officer get that man out of my place! I did not know my rights at that time and so I was taken to the emergency room, where I was kept all night, treated lIke a criminal...not allowed to contact my family and had 3 pages of blood work done... all of which came back, negative for drugs and every thing else within "normal range.' Yes...this was really helpful for a person already suffering, NOT! But, that is not the important part of my story...the second officer that hatefully ordered me to sit down, had to be shot and killed by the sheriff within that same year! He had already killed his ex and her man friend and was about to kill his own daughter! And we have had several other police incidents here...no the police want be of help. This is just a very small town, 2 main short streets, 2 miles in either direction! Our mayor who was a doctor and a highly involved religious person, shot and killed himself over a year ago! Two older men shot and killed each other from across their street! There are many more incidents, I just don't feel like coming up with them at the moment! I want to stress again this is a tiny town and the county isn't that populated either! I have only lived here 7 years. But, I am always paying attention! Deeply! That is part of why I know stuff! I know how complicated the mental health issue is...but at ...
Lancer comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The issue has and always will be
1) a lack of parenting
2) the presence of mental illness
Gun laws don't stop mass shootings. Australia is a good example. The port Arthur massacre was done using illegal guns. 35 killed, 23 wounded. Done using illegal weapons.
Gun laws don't stop gun ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 16, 2018:
@RavenCT I surely agree with everything you said, but the police are not of the right mind set... to be helpful. Have you not seen the number of mentally ill people who have been killed in the last few years by the police? There have been 1200 police killings in the last year! Police are military...they are to much a part of the problem! I got to kmow my sheriff, personally, after the police did a raid on the wrong house and threw a 'bomb' in a baby's crib and blew a hole in it's chest and face, i have forgotten if it was 9mons or 19 months old...but it was a horrible incident here! My sheriff's intellectual capacity would never be helpful for mentally people! NEVER! This was after my incident. A few years back, when I called the help hot line, because the 'bottom fell out'...(I had not been taking my meds, and in the last 5 yrs, I have had little support for mental health.) So I called a NMHI, hot line... I needed a hand up and after talking to a gal, and realizing that I needed to get back on meds, I knew I would be ok. But the hot line called the police and 2 officers showed up. The first one came in and i was crying and as he was looking around my place, another officer showed up and the minute I laid eyes on him I knew he was not 'right'...first he came over toward me and angrily and hatefully told me...'get over there and sit down.' At least I had the presence of mind, to DEMAND, that the first officer get that man out of my place! I did not know my rights at that time and so I was taken to the emergency room, where I was kept all night, treated lIke a criminal...not allowed to contact my family and had 3 pages of blood work done... all of which came back, negative for drugs and every thing else within "normal range.' Yes...this was really helpful for a person already suffering, NOT! But, that is not the important part of my story...the second officer that hatefully ordered me to sit down, had to be shot and killed by the sheriff within that same year! He had already killed his ex and her man friend and was about to kill his own daughter! And we have had several other police incidents here...no the police want be of help. This is just a very small town, 2 main short streets, 2 miles in either direction! Our mayor who was a doctor and a highly involved religious person, shot and killed himself over a year ago! Two older men shot and killed each other from across their street! There are many more incidents, I just don't feel like coming up with them at the moment! I want to stress again this is a tiny town and the county isn't that populated either! I have only lived here 7 years. But, I am always paying attention! Deeply! That is part of why I know stuff! I know how complicated the mental health issue is...but at ...
Sad but accurate
godef comments on Feb 15, 2018:
The NRA isn't about having guns to protect self and property, it's really about grown babies who have to have their toys. Grow up already you babies, there's no Santa Claus.
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@jayneonacobb I don't care now if our 'government is fair and honest'...I care about saving the lives of men women and children!
godef comments on Feb 15, 2018:
The NRA isn't about having guns to protect self and property, it's really about grown babies who have to have their toys. Grow up already you babies, there's no Santa Claus.
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@jayneonacobb I don't care now if our 'government is fair and honest'...I care about saving the lives of men women and children!
Is it just me or does others find it undignified for our VP Mike Pence, who said that he 'ignored ...
pmljcbs comments on Feb 15, 2018:
Lt's appalling that nobody in our government has any clue about, well, anything, but especially diplomacy. Pence only has one trick; go to a function,, then make a little parade of himself walking out. It was dumb at the football game, and it was even dumber in Korea. lt would be nice if we ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
You have to wonder what a man like him is hiding...
pmljcbs comments on Feb 15, 2018:
Lt's appalling that nobody in our government has any clue about, well, anything, but especially diplomacy. Pence only has one trick; go to a function,, then make a little parade of himself walking out. It was dumb at the football game, and it was even dumber in Korea. lt would be nice if we ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
You have to wonder what a man like him is hiding...
Is it just me or does others find it undignified for our VP Mike Pence, who said that he 'ignored ...
ElizabethI comments on Feb 15, 2018:
Not irrational, and I commend you on your restraint with your adjectives here.
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
I try to pull out that logic and reason, but sometimes it is with great effort!
ElizabethI comments on Feb 15, 2018:
Not irrational, and I commend you on your restraint with your adjectives here.
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
I try to pull out that logic and reason, but sometimes it is with great effort!
Is it just me or does others find it undignified for our VP Mike Pence, who said that he 'ignored ...
chicagojcb comments on Feb 15, 2018:
Mike Pence is an asshole. He doesn't trust himself with any other women unless his wife is there. What does that tell you about him?
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
He isn"t TRUSTWORTHY!
chicagojcb comments on Feb 15, 2018:
Mike Pence is an asshole. He doesn't trust himself with any other women unless his wife is there. What does that tell you about him?
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
He isn"t TRUSTWORTHY!
Why do women have to basically spell it out for men in what they want? Why are they so clueless?
Funandfondles comments on Feb 14, 2018:
I just think no one is a mind reader. When I am interested in a women, I tell them directly, leaving no room for discrepancies, and I tell them once. I come off really strong but I don’t want to waste everyone’s time and energy, and I refuse to harass and nag, it’s desperate and wasteful. The ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@Funandfondles I would really appreciate that approach myself...lays it right out on the table!
Funandfondles comments on Feb 14, 2018:
I just think no one is a mind reader. When I am interested in a women, I tell them directly, leaving no room for discrepancies, and I tell them once. I come off really strong but I don’t want to waste everyone’s time and energy, and I refuse to harass and nag, it’s desperate and wasteful. The ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@Funandfondles I would really appreciate that approach myself...lays it right out on the table!
Another f@!king mass shooting here in America! At least 17 dead, 23 injured.
Lancer comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The issue has and always will be
1) a lack of parenting
2) the presence of mental illness
Gun laws don't stop mass shootings. Australia is a good example. The port Arthur massacre was done using illegal guns. 35 killed, 23 wounded. Done using illegal weapons.
Gun laws don't stop gun ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@RavenCT I am not trying to put you in any position what so ever... to prove yourself...nor am i wanting to put myself up as an expert...but, if all my study was put together with my experience, I would hold a master degree! When everyone else was out doing other things, I studied. And I had many different qualified therapist and psychiatrist, that i worked with over 25 years! To be perfectly honest, I hate tooting my 'anything!' But. I was highly respected by the professionals in my pursuit of sanity and knowledge! My search was unlike my peers (and my family, had no use for treatment). I do not believe in evil, as an entity! But I believe that we commit acts that are evil. I want to be taken seriously...i just might know something about mental illness! Even if I don"t hold the credentials. It has been my experience that no one has all the answers...not even the experts! If they did, I believe we would see more progress toward the over all better mental health in our society! I felt that my knowledge was in question...which does not bode well to support your knowledge and experience...owing that you are a professional!
Lancer comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The issue has and always will be
1) a lack of parenting
2) the presence of mental illness
Gun laws don't stop mass shootings. Australia is a good example. The port Arthur massacre was done using illegal guns. 35 killed, 23 wounded. Done using illegal weapons.
Gun laws don't stop gun ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@RavenCT I am not trying to put you in any position what so ever... to prove yourself...nor am i wanting to put myself up as an expert...but, if all my study was put together with my experience, I would hold a master degree! When everyone else was out doing other things, I studied. And I had many different qualified therapist and psychiatrist, that i worked with over 25 years! To be perfectly honest, I hate tooting my 'anything!' But. I was highly respected by the professionals in my pursuit of sanity and knowledge! My search was unlike my peers (and my family, had no use for treatment). I do not believe in evil, as an entity! But I believe that we commit acts that are evil. I want to be taken seriously...i just might know something about mental illness! Even if I don"t hold the credentials. It has been my experience that no one has all the answers...not even the experts! If they did, I believe we would see more progress toward the over all better mental health in our society! I felt that my knowledge was in question...which does not bode well to support your knowledge and experience...owing that you are a professional!
Is it just me or does others find it undignified for our VP Mike Pence, who said that he 'ignored ...
Davesnothere comments on Feb 15, 2018:
NO Pence fan here
BUT
Kim Jon Uns Sister is the head of Propaganda in North Korea, any and every Photo op with her will be used by her ONLY as The Leader sees fit.
Do Anything with that particular woman is to feed their propagana machine.
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
We here in America...I thought promoted democracy and diplomacy? Well...is it just lip service or ACTIONS, that prove our skill in these areas? I simply do not live in an imaginary world and when I see ACTIONS that represent something...then I can believe it is working out in real time! If we worried about what reactions, the other person will take on OUR sensible actions...we would all end up screwed! MINDREADING, is a dangerous game in democracy and diplomacy! I will do good, if you do good, too, just want pass muster in my book!
Davesnothere comments on Feb 15, 2018:
NO Pence fan here
BUT
Kim Jon Uns Sister is the head of Propaganda in North Korea, any and every Photo op with her will be used by her ONLY as The Leader sees fit.
Do Anything with that particular woman is to feed their propagana machine.
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
We here in America...I thought promoted democracy and diplomacy? Well...is it just lip service or ACTIONS, that prove our skill in these areas? I simply do not live in an imaginary world and when I see ACTIONS that represent something...then I can believe it is working out in real time! If we worried about what reactions, the other person will take on OUR sensible actions...we would all end up screwed! MINDREADING, is a dangerous game in democracy and diplomacy! I will do good, if you do good, too, just want pass muster in my book!
Another f@!king mass shooting here in America! At least 17 dead, 23 injured.
Lancer comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The issue has and always will be
1) a lack of parenting
2) the presence of mental illness
Gun laws don't stop mass shootings. Australia is a good example. The port Arthur massacre was done using illegal guns. 35 killed, 23 wounded. Done using illegal weapons.
Gun laws don't stop gun ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@RavenCT... but, I HAVE life long experience (still), with family members who killed and those that created havoc with family and society, and it takes all of us, supporting the system! I have none of your experience...I have lived it for 78 yrs here! But, I also have studied probably 100s of books and research on my own, because I knew what I was up against! But, it is like Dr Scott Peck, wrote...in order to study evil, you must immerse yourself into it...and that is a dangerous place! I believe that is true with any mental illness! I would never have chosen to be in the mist of so much mental illness...it cost me most of my productive life span. Book learning will never answer all the mental health questions!
Lancer comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The issue has and always will be
1) a lack of parenting
2) the presence of mental illness
Gun laws don't stop mass shootings. Australia is a good example. The port Arthur massacre was done using illegal guns. 35 killed, 23 wounded. Done using illegal weapons.
Gun laws don't stop gun ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@RavenCT... but, I HAVE life long experience (still), with family members who killed and those that created havoc with family and society, and it takes all of us, supporting the system! I have none of your experience...I have lived it for 78 yrs here! But, I also have studied probably 100s of books and research on my own, because I knew what I was up against! But, it is like Dr Scott Peck, wrote...in order to study evil, you must immerse yourself into it...and that is a dangerous place! I believe that is true with any mental illness! I would never have chosen to be in the mist of so much mental illness...it cost me most of my productive life span. Book learning will never answer all the mental health questions!
Is it just me or does others find it undignified for our VP Mike Pence, who said that he 'ignored ...
JackPedigo comments on Feb 15, 2018:
"Petty Pence" sounds good.
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
...and he is under the allusion...he represents the American people! He has only managed to bring out the worst...in nearly every one of us!
JackPedigo comments on Feb 15, 2018:
"Petty Pence" sounds good.
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
...and he is under the allusion...he represents the American people! He has only managed to bring out the worst...in nearly every one of us!
Another f@!king mass shooting here in America! At least 17 dead, 23 injured.
twshield comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The NRA is very rich and in alot of pockets unfortunately
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@dahermit I just read the cumulative dollar amount donated to our politicians and it came to over 30,000,000 dollars, from the NRA..now where did they get that much money to 'give away?' And , what did they want in return? I would say, emphatically...THEY have BLOOD on their hands!! They use the 2nd amendment and romantic notions to seduce people into gun ownership! Killing hurts us all...and guns in the hands of some person in a meltdown, kills people!
twshield comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The NRA is very rich and in alot of pockets unfortunately
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@dahermit I just read the cumulative dollar amount donated to our politicians and it came to over 30,000,000 dollars, from the NRA..now where did they get that much money to 'give away?' And , what did they want in return? I would say, emphatically...THEY have BLOOD on their hands!! They use the 2nd amendment and romantic notions to seduce people into gun ownership! Killing hurts us all...and guns in the hands of some person in a meltdown, kills people!
Fair Warning : Adult content.
Freedompath comments on Feb 15, 2018:
The only question I have is what part, were you playing in this horror movie? I cannot imagine how you work a plot around that scenario? Or was it one of those 'plotless' movies? Did the movie end, and will there be a sequel? Just asking?
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@Blindbird ...sweet will get you just so far, (and could be a munipulative tactic)...a little rational toughness goes along way!
Freedompath comments on Feb 15, 2018:
The only question I have is what part, were you playing in this horror movie? I cannot imagine how you work a plot around that scenario? Or was it one of those 'plotless' movies? Did the movie end, and will there be a sequel? Just asking?
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@Blindbird ...sweet will get you just so far, (and could be a munipulative tactic)...a little rational toughness goes along way!
Why do women have to basically spell it out for men in what they want? Why are they so clueless?
Funandfondles comments on Feb 14, 2018:
I just think no one is a mind reader. When I am interested in a women, I tell them directly, leaving no room for discrepancies, and I tell them once. I come off really strong but I don’t want to waste everyone’s time and energy, and I refuse to harass and nag, it’s desperate and wasteful. The ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@Funandfondles well...maybe? Don't get stuck, in one mind set, though, lol !
Funandfondles comments on Feb 14, 2018:
I just think no one is a mind reader. When I am interested in a women, I tell them directly, leaving no room for discrepancies, and I tell them once. I come off really strong but I don’t want to waste everyone’s time and energy, and I refuse to harass and nag, it’s desperate and wasteful. The ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@Funandfondles well...maybe? Don't get stuck, in one mind set, though, lol !
Another f@!king mass shooting here in America! At least 17 dead, 23 injured.
Lancer comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The issue has and always will be
1) a lack of parenting
2) the presence of mental illness
Gun laws don't stop mass shootings. Australia is a good example. The port Arthur massacre was done using illegal guns. 35 killed, 23 wounded. Done using illegal weapons.
Gun laws don't stop gun ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@Lancer I hope that you are just venting your anger...because your statement is cruel and callous! Mental illness, is a brain functionality..., when addressed and treated early on, mentally ill people can function in society! It is so easy to throw our hands up and scream lock'um up! Treating mental illness takes time, I my self was in treatment over a 25 year period and I only wanted to kill myself on a regular basis! You need to spend some time studying the new research on the brain, then you might be of help, instead of just throwing words around...I know your pain, but you need to access your logic and reasoning!
Lancer comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The issue has and always will be
1) a lack of parenting
2) the presence of mental illness
Gun laws don't stop mass shootings. Australia is a good example. The port Arthur massacre was done using illegal guns. 35 killed, 23 wounded. Done using illegal weapons.
Gun laws don't stop gun ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
@Lancer I hope that you are just venting your anger...because your statement is cruel and callous! Mental illness, is a brain functionality..., when addressed and treated early on, mentally ill people can function in society! It is so easy to throw our hands up and scream lock'um up! Treating mental illness takes time, I my self was in treatment over a 25 year period and I only wanted to kill myself on a regular basis! You need to spend some time studying the new research on the brain, then you might be of help, instead of just throwing words around...I know your pain, but you need to access your logic and reasoning!
Why can’t religious people understand that atheism isn’t a religion?
GreenAtheist comments on Feb 15, 2018:
It is insane to try to make sense of the insane. ...it is absurd to call their hairstyles equal to OUR BALDNESS. ...believers are unwilling to reason they are 99% Atheists and we are 100% Atheists. ...we have zero beliefs that Thor or YHWH exist what xian keeps Jehohvah on the same brain cell as ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
That is way to hard...you have been reading again!
GreenAtheist comments on Feb 15, 2018:
It is insane to try to make sense of the insane. ...it is absurd to call their hairstyles equal to OUR BALDNESS. ...believers are unwilling to reason they are 99% Atheists and we are 100% Atheists. ...we have zero beliefs that Thor or YHWH exist what xian keeps Jehohvah on the same brain cell as ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 15, 2018:
That is way to hard...you have been reading again!
Another f@!king mass shooting here in America! At least 17 dead, 23 injured.
Lancer comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The issue has and always will be
1) a lack of parenting
2) the presence of mental illness
Gun laws don't stop mass shootings. Australia is a good example. The port Arthur massacre was done using illegal guns. 35 killed, 23 wounded. Done using illegal weapons.
Gun laws don't stop gun ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
@RavenCT ...I wonder if you have first hand experience with some mentally ill people? Help has never been easy to find, and the mentally ill person has rights and authorities error on the side of their rights! It is very complicated! But, for sure... if guns weren't romancitized that would be a great start! I have stories to tell...
Lancer comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The issue has and always will be
1) a lack of parenting
2) the presence of mental illness
Gun laws don't stop mass shootings. Australia is a good example. The port Arthur massacre was done using illegal guns. 35 killed, 23 wounded. Done using illegal weapons.
Gun laws don't stop gun ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
@RavenCT ...I wonder if you have first hand experience with some mentally ill people? Help has never been easy to find, and the mentally ill person has rights and authorities error on the side of their rights! It is very complicated! But, for sure... if guns weren't romancitized that would be a great start! I have stories to tell...
Why do women have to basically spell it out for men in what they want? Why are they so clueless?
JackPedigo comments on Feb 14, 2018:
Maybe it's in our jeans!
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
@jlynn37 ...that was a 'hit'...below the belt!
JackPedigo comments on Feb 14, 2018:
Maybe it's in our jeans!
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
@jlynn37 ...that was a 'hit'...below the belt!
Why do women have to basically spell it out for men in what they want? Why are they so clueless?
jlynn37 comments on Feb 14, 2018:
This should explain everything for you.
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
I have never met a women with that many knobs, anywhere...around her person!
jlynn37 comments on Feb 14, 2018:
This should explain everything for you.
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
I have never met a women with that many knobs, anywhere...around her person!
Why do women have to basically spell it out for men in what they want? Why are they so clueless?
sanchez1193 comments on Feb 14, 2018:
Why not just be an adult and say what you want instead of being childish and wait until a man guesses what you want?
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
Even adults maintain a fear of rejection...
sanchez1193 comments on Feb 14, 2018:
Why not just be an adult and say what you want instead of being childish and wait until a man guesses what you want?
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
Even adults maintain a fear of rejection...
Why do women have to basically spell it out for men in what they want? Why are they so clueless?
Funandfondles comments on Feb 14, 2018:
I just think no one is a mind reader. When I am interested in a women, I tell them directly, leaving no room for discrepancies, and I tell them once. I come off really strong but I don’t want to waste everyone’s time and energy, and I refuse to harass and nag, it’s desperate and wasteful. The ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
You know you have to be young, just to keep up with that heavy duty mating game! Don't you long for the time...when men raised their club...to show their intent and threw the young maiden over their shoulder and traveled across the Barian Straits?.it was so simple then...
Funandfondles comments on Feb 14, 2018:
I just think no one is a mind reader. When I am interested in a women, I tell them directly, leaving no room for discrepancies, and I tell them once. I come off really strong but I don’t want to waste everyone’s time and energy, and I refuse to harass and nag, it’s desperate and wasteful. The ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
You know you have to be young, just to keep up with that heavy duty mating game! Don't you long for the time...when men raised their club...to show their intent and threw the young maiden over their shoulder and traveled across the Barian Straits?.it was so simple then...
Another f@!king mass shooting here in America! At least 17 dead, 23 injured.
Lancer comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The issue has and always will be
1) a lack of parenting
2) the presence of mental illness
Gun laws don't stop mass shootings. Australia is a good example. The port Arthur massacre was done using illegal guns. 35 killed, 23 wounded. Done using illegal weapons.
Gun laws don't stop gun ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
Lancer. I can't wrap my head around that idea...if you have been exposed to a lot of mental illness, you would find that it is not controllable by the average person! They kill people a LOT, because they are trying to relieve their unimaginable pain...psychic pain!
Lancer comments on Feb 14, 2018:
The issue has and always will be
1) a lack of parenting
2) the presence of mental illness
Gun laws don't stop mass shootings. Australia is a good example. The port Arthur massacre was done using illegal guns. 35 killed, 23 wounded. Done using illegal weapons.
Gun laws don't stop gun ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
Lancer. I can't wrap my head around that idea...if you have been exposed to a lot of mental illness, you would find that it is not controllable by the average person! They kill people a LOT, because they are trying to relieve their unimaginable pain...psychic pain!
Another f@!king mass shooting here in America! At least 17 dead, 23 injured.
RavenCT comments on Feb 14, 2018:
It's guns in the hands of people who are unstable. And guns.
The mentally ill just aren't followed the way they once were. (Cut backs and changes in how we treat chronically mentally ill).
This student was expelled and known to be some sort of threat. And still?
In the old days he'd have ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
@ScientistV when I say mentally, I mean a 'brain disorder' of some kind! Anything, wrong with brain is 'mental illness.'
RavenCT comments on Feb 14, 2018:
It's guns in the hands of people who are unstable. And guns.
The mentally ill just aren't followed the way they once were. (Cut backs and changes in how we treat chronically mentally ill).
This student was expelled and known to be some sort of threat. And still?
In the old days he'd have ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
@ScientistV when I say mentally, I mean a 'brain disorder' of some kind! Anything, wrong with brain is 'mental illness.'
Caught him swimming on a cold day..
MyLiege comments on Feb 14, 2018:
That'll curb lunch time appetites. :(
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
Breakfast and Supper, too!
MyLiege comments on Feb 14, 2018:
That'll curb lunch time appetites. :(
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
Breakfast and Supper, too!
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
FrayedBear comments on Feb 14, 2018:
Does the printed/ written word have greater validity than the reproduction of the same thing on a computer screen?
I suggest the answer emotively is yes, practically yes but factually no.
I recently received my electricity bill. We have so called digital "smart meters" recording usage complete...
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
What is the world coming to? We are just supposed to believe because it said so! My meter is auto too and I have not had a problem in 7 years I have lived here. Thank heavens!
FrayedBear comments on Feb 14, 2018:
Does the printed/ written word have greater validity than the reproduction of the same thing on a computer screen?
I suggest the answer emotively is yes, practically yes but factually no.
I recently received my electricity bill. We have so called digital "smart meters" recording usage complete...
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
What is the world coming to? We are just supposed to believe because it said so! My meter is auto too and I have not had a problem in 7 years I have lived here. Thank heavens!
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
Dwight comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I have a similar problem. Lots of great books, no place for them to go. Boxing them up and listing the contents of each box is a first step. If you can afford a storage locker have them transported to there. If you have a reliable friend ask them if they could store them.
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
@FrayedBear it is painful to think about!
Dwight comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I have a similar problem. Lots of great books, no place for them to go. Boxing them up and listing the contents of each box is a first step. If you can afford a storage locker have them transported to there. If you have a reliable friend ask them if they could store them.
Freedompath replies on Feb 14, 2018:
@FrayedBear it is painful to think about!
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
Dwight comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I have a similar problem. Lots of great books, no place for them to go. Boxing them up and listing the contents of each box is a first step. If you can afford a storage locker have them transported to there. If you have a reliable friend ask them if they could store them.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@FrayedBear... there are written treasures out there...that may only be written once!
Dwight comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I have a similar problem. Lots of great books, no place for them to go. Boxing them up and listing the contents of each box is a first step. If you can afford a storage locker have them transported to there. If you have a reliable friend ask them if they could store them.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@FrayedBear... there are written treasures out there...that may only be written once!
With Amarosa, removed from the WH, she is revealing what most of us suspected all along.
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 13, 2018:
Imagine if you will, a scenario where the timing is: Mueller parades his actions in a way they pretty much guarantees a blue wave in November, Followed by an arrest of Pence for obstruction of justice so that he is removed from the scene in mid-January, with impeachment proceedings against Trump ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
That could work...but she isn't young, even though she has hung in there...through many storms! There are (I suspect), many more angry GOP doners and lobbyist that would make her life hell...working thru the remaining Republicans I don't underestimate these people anymore! They play to win...regardless of the cost! I'm a believer now! These wealthy doners are supporting trump...? Why?
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 13, 2018:
Imagine if you will, a scenario where the timing is: Mueller parades his actions in a way they pretty much guarantees a blue wave in November, Followed by an arrest of Pence for obstruction of justice so that he is removed from the scene in mid-January, with impeachment proceedings against Trump ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
That could work...but she isn't young, even though she has hung in there...through many storms! There are (I suspect), many more angry GOP doners and lobbyist that would make her life hell...working thru the remaining Republicans I don't underestimate these people anymore! They play to win...regardless of the cost! I'm a believer now! These wealthy doners are supporting trump...? Why?
With Amarosa, removed from the WH, she is revealing what most of us suspected all along.
Charlene comments on Feb 13, 2018:
I agree..hopefully Penis will be arrested for conspiracy to commit treason by way of witholding evidence in the Russia investigation..
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
We can only dream...
Charlene comments on Feb 13, 2018:
I agree..hopefully Penis will be arrested for conspiracy to commit treason by way of witholding evidence in the Russia investigation..
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
We can only dream...
How, will we ever create peace in our own country, when our government officials keep ...
GreenAtheist comments on Feb 13, 2018:
People need to reject greed and enable needs. ....there are millions of good jobs working over 43 hours per week .....10 workers doing the same job could each "donate" 4 hours a week and hire one more person to fill those hours. ....people could vote Green and build millions of hydrogen cars in 49 ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
I like it...
GreenAtheist comments on Feb 13, 2018:
People need to reject greed and enable needs. ....there are millions of good jobs working over 43 hours per week .....10 workers doing the same job could each "donate" 4 hours a week and hire one more person to fill those hours. ....people could vote Green and build millions of hydrogen cars in 49 ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
I like it...
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
273kelvin comments on Feb 13, 2018:
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Perfect....
273kelvin comments on Feb 13, 2018:
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Perfect....
Believer Bashing?
Freedompath comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I agree with you...accept the non-believer...and that can happened after we have had time to adjust ourself to being condemned for not seeing the light! It hurts to be beat-up simply because you don't experience religion or life, as they do!
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@Dida one more thing that I have learned is, both people in a situation have some 'hurt' going on and if you can tap into that and address it...from both sides, it really calms the situation! There are no sides to take...just issues to address!
Freedompath comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I agree with you...accept the non-believer...and that can happened after we have had time to adjust ourself to being condemned for not seeing the light! It hurts to be beat-up simply because you don't experience religion or life, as they do!
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@Dida one more thing that I have learned is, both people in a situation have some 'hurt' going on and if you can tap into that and address it...from both sides, it really calms the situation! There are no sides to take...just issues to address!
Believer Bashing?
Freedompath comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I agree with you...accept the non-believer...and that can happened after we have had time to adjust ourself to being condemned for not seeing the light! It hurts to be beat-up simply because you don't experience religion or life, as they do!
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@Dida yes, your point is well taken...we must know how and when is good for taking a stand...dead people can take no stand!
Freedompath comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I agree with you...accept the non-believer...and that can happened after we have had time to adjust ourself to being condemned for not seeing the light! It hurts to be beat-up simply because you don't experience religion or life, as they do!
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@Dida yes, your point is well taken...we must know how and when is good for taking a stand...dead people can take no stand!
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
FrayedBear comments on Feb 13, 2018:
Every six months our local school has a book fair. Books costing upto $150 are sold for $1 each. At the end of the fair the tons of unsold books are loaded onto a truck and carted to the tip.
That sadly is what today's people seem to think about printed books.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Here to...now how can I live with a vision like that! Lol. I will do this surgically!
FrayedBear comments on Feb 13, 2018:
Every six months our local school has a book fair. Books costing upto $150 are sold for $1 each. At the end of the fair the tons of unsold books are loaded onto a truck and carted to the tip.
That sadly is what today's people seem to think about printed books.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Here to...now how can I live with a vision like that! Lol. I will do this surgically!
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
wordywalt comments on Feb 13, 2018:
I empathize with you. At one time, I had at least 2,000 books, Predominantly non-fiction. My wife urged me to deeply prune my collection to make space for other things. That was painful. I threw away all of the insignificant books, gave away several hundred to book organizations, sent boxes full...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
That has been my story as well...almost word for word! Lol I did not mention, the years of National Geographics, years of art magazines. ..lol.
wordywalt comments on Feb 13, 2018:
I empathize with you. At one time, I had at least 2,000 books, Predominantly non-fiction. My wife urged me to deeply prune my collection to make space for other things. That was painful. I threw away all of the insignificant books, gave away several hundred to book organizations, sent boxes full...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
That has been my story as well...almost word for word! Lol I did not mention, the years of National Geographics, years of art magazines. ..lol.
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
AnneWimsey comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Books will eventually get silverfish eating the spine glue or mold/mildew between the pages. Stop thinking of them as a permanent life fixturse. You can get all of them at your library and/or your computer!
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@AnneWimsey ha!ha! Is this like an alcoholic? ..'I will just have a drink on the week-end.' Lol. I do feel addicted to my books! Lol.
AnneWimsey comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Books will eventually get silverfish eating the spine glue or mold/mildew between the pages. Stop thinking of them as a permanent life fixturse. You can get all of them at your library and/or your computer!
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@AnneWimsey ha!ha! Is this like an alcoholic? ..'I will just have a drink on the week-end.' Lol. I do feel addicted to my books! Lol.
Sexual compatibility is pertinent in any healthy relationship.
Taijiguy comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I fall in the catagory that sexual compatibility is essential. I've been in sexless relationships, and discovered that the lack of sex was just a symptom of deeper issues. The cumulative effect being the end of the relationship. My last relationship was great all the way around, since it was so ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@Taijiguy...hard to find same patterned giftwrap! Lol. I know what you are saying...there is something that hooks us! It was a long time, before I could give that up! Putting it in words, is easy, revamping the emotional attachment to a mirage...hard to let go of! There are no duplicate people!
Taijiguy comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I fall in the catagory that sexual compatibility is essential. I've been in sexless relationships, and discovered that the lack of sex was just a symptom of deeper issues. The cumulative effect being the end of the relationship. My last relationship was great all the way around, since it was so ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@Taijiguy...hard to find same patterned giftwrap! Lol. I know what you are saying...there is something that hooks us! It was a long time, before I could give that up! Putting it in words, is easy, revamping the emotional attachment to a mirage...hard to let go of! There are no duplicate people!
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
Eazyduzzit comments on Feb 13, 2018:
I always wonder why I keep books I've already read. I never read them again and they just take up space. I would love a good excuse to get rid of them. It looks like this is your chance.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Same here..LOL. @Eazyduzzit
Eazyduzzit comments on Feb 13, 2018:
I always wonder why I keep books I've already read. I never read them again and they just take up space. I would love a good excuse to get rid of them. It looks like this is your chance.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Same here..LOL. @Eazyduzzit
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
carlyhorton comments on Feb 13, 2018:
I culled a TON when I moved. I feel your pain! There are still a dozen boxes in my attic that I couldn't part with. Eventually, I'll be able to get rid of some of them too. It's a process. Don't feel that you have to get rid of them all at once. If your new place has a spare bedroom, but up ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Good advice, I can keep the ones that I consider 'dear'...when I read your word 'eye sore,' my first thought was, books are never an eye sore to me (you didn't say that), I do believe that...I could live in a place with only books and a place to sit, with a light, lol...I would feel perfectly happy!
carlyhorton comments on Feb 13, 2018:
I culled a TON when I moved. I feel your pain! There are still a dozen boxes in my attic that I couldn't part with. Eventually, I'll be able to get rid of some of them too. It's a process. Don't feel that you have to get rid of them all at once. If your new place has a spare bedroom, but up ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Good advice, I can keep the ones that I consider 'dear'...when I read your word 'eye sore,' my first thought was, books are never an eye sore to me (you didn't say that), I do believe that...I could live in a place with only books and a place to sit, with a light, lol...I would feel perfectly happy!
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
Atheistman comments on Feb 13, 2018:
Open a book store and sell them. Book. Storage. Book store
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
I sure wish that I could...back in my earlier days i bought all new books, then collected used ones.
Used book stores pay very little...then I have lots of the Great Courses... it will come together somehow?
Atheistman comments on Feb 13, 2018:
Open a book store and sell them. Book. Storage. Book store
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
I sure wish that I could...back in my earlier days i bought all new books, then collected used ones.
Used book stores pay very little...then I have lots of the Great Courses... it will come together somehow?
Sexual compatibility is pertinent in any healthy relationship.
ksmith86 comments on Feb 12, 2018:
This is true. The last girl I was with hated sex. Didn't like to cuddle either. I really tried to stay positive throughout and give her what she needed in other areas of our lives but... it poisoned the whole thing. I broke it off after a year.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
That may have been more than a mismatch...may be unresolved hurt of some kind!
ksmith86 comments on Feb 12, 2018:
This is true. The last girl I was with hated sex. Didn't like to cuddle either. I really tried to stay positive throughout and give her what she needed in other areas of our lives but... it poisoned the whole thing. I broke it off after a year.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
That may have been more than a mismatch...may be unresolved hurt of some kind!
Sexual compatibility is pertinent in any healthy relationship.
Taijiguy comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I fall in the catagory that sexual compatibility is essential. I've been in sexless relationships, and discovered that the lack of sex was just a symptom of deeper issues. The cumulative effect being the end of the relationship. My last relationship was great all the way around, since it was so ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
What is that quote..
'Lightening never strikes twice in the same spot'...comparisons may rob us of the next best thing?
Taijiguy comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I fall in the catagory that sexual compatibility is essential. I've been in sexless relationships, and discovered that the lack of sex was just a symptom of deeper issues. The cumulative effect being the end of the relationship. My last relationship was great all the way around, since it was so ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
What is that quote..
'Lightening never strikes twice in the same spot'...comparisons may rob us of the next best thing?
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
KKGator comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Books are meant to be read. Give them to school libraries, or hospitals, or battered
women's shelters.
Imagine the joy they've given you being passed onto someone else.
Think of the minds that can be expanded by the stories you love.
Sometimes, if we are able to shift our perspectives, even ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@KKGator that is true...I realize they gave me so much... back in the day, but life does go forward not backwards...and I want to be lean and simple now, so...I think that I can get this done!
KKGator comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Books are meant to be read. Give them to school libraries, or hospitals, or battered
women's shelters.
Imagine the joy they've given you being passed onto someone else.
Think of the minds that can be expanded by the stories you love.
Sometimes, if we are able to shift our perspectives, even ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@KKGator that is true...I realize they gave me so much... back in the day, but life does go forward not backwards...and I want to be lean and simple now, so...I think that I can get this done!
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
dalefvictor comments on Feb 13, 2018:
I feel for you. I also collect books, try to read most of them, but it is hard to not have them with you. Many years ago I needed some money so I took books to Powell's in Portland to sell them. This was not a good thing for me as I had a real good bought of depression going. Started having suicidal...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Yes, thank heavens I am not depressed and having to part with these books! Actually, I have learned to not make any serious decisions when I am depressed...that never works in my best interest!
dalefvictor comments on Feb 13, 2018:
I feel for you. I also collect books, try to read most of them, but it is hard to not have them with you. Many years ago I needed some money so I took books to Powell's in Portland to sell them. This was not a good thing for me as I had a real good bought of depression going. Started having suicidal...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Yes, thank heavens I am not depressed and having to part with these books! Actually, I have learned to not make any serious decisions when I am depressed...that never works in my best interest!
So on NPR today (02-12-2018), they had a story about a study which shows tha smart phones have ...
Freedompath comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I have to admit, I feel too attached to my phone! Reading the news, emails and texting some and hardly making any calls, but I check it more than I ever did before and I feel a low level anger over it! I may have to go cold turkey! I have a life...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@snytiger6 at least I do not wear my phone, like some people I know! Winter, when we must stay in a lot, does not help!
Freedompath comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I have to admit, I feel too attached to my phone! Reading the news, emails and texting some and hardly making any calls, but I check it more than I ever did before and I feel a low level anger over it! I may have to go cold turkey! I have a life...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@snytiger6 at least I do not wear my phone, like some people I know! Winter, when we must stay in a lot, does not help!
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
silvereyes comments on Feb 13, 2018:
I recommend you donate them to something you feel good about and share the joy you had with the books with other people.
Maybe think about a Kindle where you can collect and not take up physical space. I know it's not quite the same as having the book in hand-- but if there is a craving for a ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
I always do that...and I will figure where I believe they will be enjoyed the most! That will help!
silvereyes comments on Feb 13, 2018:
I recommend you donate them to something you feel good about and share the joy you had with the books with other people.
Maybe think about a Kindle where you can collect and not take up physical space. I know it's not quite the same as having the book in hand-- but if there is a craving for a ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
I always do that...and I will figure where I believe they will be enjoyed the most! That will help!
Am I weird or what?
GreenAtheist comments on Feb 13, 2018:
Nope I stay on message while some folks herein inspire me to new quips or lyrics
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Ha ha! You must be hitting your mark...maybe I can stay out of the weeds...I hope!
GreenAtheist comments on Feb 13, 2018:
Nope I stay on message while some folks herein inspire me to new quips or lyrics
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Ha ha! You must be hitting your mark...maybe I can stay out of the weeds...I hope!
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
Dida comments on Feb 13, 2018:
If those books could talk I bet they would say they feel sad to leave you too but glad they got to say good-bye and have you find them new homes. They do not want to be pawed on by people that do not love them like you do. It is hard to let go but the world will be enriched because of your books! <3
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Let's hope so...they made many a happy and enlightened day for me!
Dida comments on Feb 13, 2018:
If those books could talk I bet they would say they feel sad to leave you too but glad they got to say good-bye and have you find them new homes. They do not want to be pawed on by people that do not love them like you do. It is hard to let go but the world will be enriched because of your books! <3
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Let's hope so...they made many a happy and enlightened day for me!
Believer Bashing?
Freedompath comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I agree with you...accept the non-believer...and that can happened after we have had time to adjust ourself to being condemned for not seeing the light! It hurts to be beat-up simply because you don't experience religion or life, as they do!
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@Dida I agree with that...I never speak to others that way for any reason! I have learned to 'own' my own stuff and not dump my feelings on others. But, I will tell them, if their words are hurtful! And, I can spot this kind of person easily and i keep my distance to begin with!
Freedompath comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I agree with you...accept the non-believer...and that can happened after we have had time to adjust ourself to being condemned for not seeing the light! It hurts to be beat-up simply because you don't experience religion or life, as they do!
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@Dida I agree with that...I never speak to others that way for any reason! I have learned to 'own' my own stuff and not dump my feelings on others. But, I will tell them, if their words are hurtful! And, I can spot this kind of person easily and i keep my distance to begin with!
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
Or-Humanist comments on Feb 13, 2018:
We have a new branch library in my neighborhood, and they are glad to get the books I have been donating to them. Have seen several on the shelves, and some in the book sales to help keep the place going. We have access to all of the books in the counties system. Might make a list, and see if in ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
They have full house...I did donate some nearly new art books...we have a constant book sale going on...and I don't need to go in there at the moment!! Lol I think this has progreased into an addiction...the books will have to go!!
Or-Humanist comments on Feb 13, 2018:
We have a new branch library in my neighborhood, and they are glad to get the books I have been donating to them. Have seen several on the shelves, and some in the book sales to help keep the place going. We have access to all of the books in the counties system. Might make a list, and see if in ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
They have full house...I did donate some nearly new art books...we have a constant book sale going on...and I don't need to go in there at the moment!! Lol I think this has progreased into an addiction...the books will have to go!!
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
AdorkableMe comments on Feb 13, 2018:
I love books, they way they smell, feel, sound when you are reading them...but I have mostly given them up in lieu of online books. Now I have them wherever I go and no matter how many I have, they never weigh more than my phone or tablet and they never take up extra space.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Yes, there is something about books...
AdorkableMe comments on Feb 13, 2018:
I love books, they way they smell, feel, sound when you are reading them...but I have mostly given them up in lieu of online books. Now I have them wherever I go and no matter how many I have, they never weigh more than my phone or tablet and they never take up extra space.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Yes, there is something about books...
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
Dwight comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I have a similar problem. Lots of great books, no place for them to go. Boxing them up and listing the contents of each box is a first step. If you can afford a storage locker have them transported to there. If you have a reliable friend ask them if they could store them.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
I do, but then my children will be faced with the job after I am dead...not that I am leaving anytime soon...
Dwight comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I have a similar problem. Lots of great books, no place for them to go. Boxing them up and listing the contents of each box is a first step. If you can afford a storage locker have them transported to there. If you have a reliable friend ask them if they could store them.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
I do, but then my children will be faced with the job after I am dead...not that I am leaving anytime soon...
I'm just asking questions?
Mike007 comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Haha.. I know the guy in the middle doesn't know how magnets work.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@Mike007 I guess I was spared on that one...I will surely catch up down the road...
Mike007 comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Haha.. I know the guy in the middle doesn't know how magnets work.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@Mike007 I guess I was spared on that one...I will surely catch up down the road...
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
KKGator comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Books are meant to be read. Give them to school libraries, or hospitals, or battered
women's shelters.
Imagine the joy they've given you being passed onto someone else.
Think of the minds that can be expanded by the stories you love.
Sometimes, if we are able to shift our perspectives, even ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
I know...it is the turning loose that is the hang-up...
KKGator comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Books are meant to be read. Give them to school libraries, or hospitals, or battered
women's shelters.
Imagine the joy they've given you being passed onto someone else.
Think of the minds that can be expanded by the stories you love.
Sometimes, if we are able to shift our perspectives, even ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
I know...it is the turning loose that is the hang-up...
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
GipsyOfNewSpain comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Do not part of them... the knowledge you got from them. Keep them until you are gone. Keep them. They are part of you after all via the knowledge provided.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
OMG...don't get on my side...I can't even give them to my children, a lot of them have books going up the stairs...I think that I will have to give them up, simply because I think that I have become 'attached' to them...I mean like an addicted person to anything!
GipsyOfNewSpain comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Do not part of them... the knowledge you got from them. Keep them until you are gone. Keep them. They are part of you after all via the knowledge provided.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
OMG...don't get on my side...I can't even give them to my children, a lot of them have books going up the stairs...I think that I will have to give them up, simply because I think that I have become 'attached' to them...I mean like an addicted person to anything!
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
JimG comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I definitely understand that. Is there any way you could donate them and share that knowledge with others?
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
My library has so many books, I did donate a large portion of my art books...second hand books nooks are full...this is a retirement area, so people have lots of books to donate here. I think that I will check out our women's prison...most all my books are non-fiction! With some classics!
JimG comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I definitely understand that. Is there any way you could donate them and share that knowledge with others?
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
My library has so many books, I did donate a large portion of my art books...second hand books nooks are full...this is a retirement area, so people have lots of books to donate here. I think that I will check out our women's prison...most all my books are non-fiction! With some classics!
I'm just asking questions?
Mike007 comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Haha.. I know the guy in the middle doesn't know how magnets work.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@EricTrommater well, if you say so...I have enough going on HERE...!!!
Mike007 comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Haha.. I know the guy in the middle doesn't know how magnets work.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@EricTrommater well, if you say so...I have enough going on HERE...!!!
Welcome to all our newest memers.
Freedompath comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I keep keep feeling like the last person, flung around on the whip line...is that normal?
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@EricTrommater well! If you say so...!!!
Freedompath comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I keep keep feeling like the last person, flung around on the whip line...is that normal?
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@EricTrommater well! If you say so...!!!
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
birdingnut comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I had the same problem when I moved to Thailand in 2010.
I donated all the new, illustrated educational books to my home schooling niece, and donated the rest of them to my local library, for tax benefits.
I now also follow the advice of Mari Kondo, in her book, "The Life-Changing Magic of ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Yes! I know that process and am giving up more than i thought that i could! Giving up gifts from 5 children isn't easy either...not to mention the cards! I am working through, remembering they do not want this job after I am dead, either! Thks
birdingnut comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I had the same problem when I moved to Thailand in 2010.
I donated all the new, illustrated educational books to my home schooling niece, and donated the rest of them to my local library, for tax benefits.
I now also follow the advice of Mari Kondo, in her book, "The Life-Changing Magic of ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
Yes! I know that process and am giving up more than i thought that i could! Giving up gifts from 5 children isn't easy either...not to mention the cards! I am working through, remembering they do not want this job after I am dead, either! Thks
I am caught between a rock and a hard place! I have to move in less than month, I must go thru an ...
AnneWimsey comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Books will eventually get silverfish eating the spine glue or mold/mildew between the pages. Stop thinking of them as a permanent life fixturse. You can get all of them at your library and/or your computer!
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
I know, I have read 100s and 100s from the library!
I got that, 'stop thinking of them as a permanent life fixture,' lol. Those words caught me! At least there is one step toward...I know I must, I just didn't know this would make me ill!
AnneWimsey comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Books will eventually get silverfish eating the spine glue or mold/mildew between the pages. Stop thinking of them as a permanent life fixturse. You can get all of them at your library and/or your computer!
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
I know, I have read 100s and 100s from the library!
I got that, 'stop thinking of them as a permanent life fixture,' lol. Those words caught me! At least there is one step toward...I know I must, I just didn't know this would make me ill!
How, will we ever create peace in our own country, when our government officials keep ...
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 12, 2018:
America knows how to assimilate immigrants. We do it over and over. Messy, yes, but we do it. We even cross the color lines with relative ease. What looks to me like the differentiator is the slave family history. We don't seem to know how to honor that heritage so we stuff it away.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@Dick_Martin I wanted ti be sure you understood what I meant...
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 12, 2018:
America knows how to assimilate immigrants. We do it over and over. Messy, yes, but we do it. We even cross the color lines with relative ease. What looks to me like the differentiator is the slave family history. We don't seem to know how to honor that heritage so we stuff it away.
Freedompath replies on Feb 13, 2018:
@Dick_Martin I wanted ti be sure you understood what I meant...
I’m a closet agnostic! I want out... any tips on how to make the leap of unfaith!
Teslacoilsmith comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I recently lost my parents' respect for being open about my atheism. But I am glad I'm finally completely out and I would do it again. Be yourself and be proud!
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
'Loss of respect'...should be about character, not your human potential. I hope they believe in that..
Teslacoilsmith comments on Feb 12, 2018:
I recently lost my parents' respect for being open about my atheism. But I am glad I'm finally completely out and I would do it again. Be yourself and be proud!
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
'Loss of respect'...should be about character, not your human potential. I hope they believe in that..
How, will we ever create peace in our own country, when our government officials keep ...
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 12, 2018:
America knows how to assimilate immigrants. We do it over and over. Messy, yes, but we do it. We even cross the color lines with relative ease. What looks to me like the differentiator is the slave family history. We don't seem to know how to honor that heritage so we stuff it away.
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Dick_Martin I was speaking of the 'evolution' of man out of Africa...separate from the 'heritage of slaves,' which Sessions could have some DNA,of and most likely he could have some Native American DNA. He is simply to much against everyone...who isn't his culture! Maybe, you heard that documentary on NPR about some town in Ala, with a Poultry processing plant and he destroyed that town almost single handed, (he did inlist the help from other politicians).
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 12, 2018:
America knows how to assimilate immigrants. We do it over and over. Messy, yes, but we do it. We even cross the color lines with relative ease. What looks to me like the differentiator is the slave family history. We don't seem to know how to honor that heritage so we stuff it away.
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Dick_Martin I was speaking of the 'evolution' of man out of Africa...separate from the 'heritage of slaves,' which Sessions could have some DNA,of and most likely he could have some Native American DNA. He is simply to much against everyone...who isn't his culture! Maybe, you heard that documentary on NPR about some town in Ala, with a Poultry processing plant and he destroyed that town almost single handed, (he did inlist the help from other politicians).
How, will we ever create peace in our own country, when our government officials keep ...
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 12, 2018:
America knows how to assimilate immigrants. We do it over and over. Messy, yes, but we do it. We even cross the color lines with relative ease. What looks to me like the differentiator is the slave family history. We don't seem to know how to honor that heritage so we stuff it away.
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Dick_Martin I had a funny thought today, what if Sessions has African DNA, and not the kind we all have as man traveled out of Africa?
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 12, 2018:
America knows how to assimilate immigrants. We do it over and over. Messy, yes, but we do it. We even cross the color lines with relative ease. What looks to me like the differentiator is the slave family history. We don't seem to know how to honor that heritage so we stuff it away.
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Dick_Martin I had a funny thought today, what if Sessions has African DNA, and not the kind we all have as man traveled out of Africa?
What a drag it is getting old.
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene I WOULD LOVE THAT, too! Enjoy..it allows you to put your money into more important things! Than constant upkeep and gas for auto!
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene I WOULD LOVE THAT, too! Enjoy..it allows you to put your money into more important things! Than constant upkeep and gas for auto!
Someone obviously didn't think this one through.
sandyw1952 comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Or maybe they did (wiggles eyebrows).
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
Was it only wiggling eyebrows...in your imagination?
sandyw1952 comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Or maybe they did (wiggles eyebrows).
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
Was it only wiggling eyebrows...in your imagination?
I'm just asking questions?
Mike007 comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Haha.. I know the guy in the middle doesn't know how magnets work.
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@EricTrommater I sure wish that I could get the in-side jokes from all of the above people...I might go bonkers too!! Somebody needs to let me in...
Mike007 comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Haha.. I know the guy in the middle doesn't know how magnets work.
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@EricTrommater I sure wish that I could get the in-side jokes from all of the above people...I might go bonkers too!! Somebody needs to let me in...
How, will we ever create peace in our own country, when our government officials keep ...
GreenAtheist comments on Feb 12, 2018:
To be fair though Sessions is a racist undeserving of my fairness, Anglo-American COMMON LAW is 11 centuries in the making that the little bigot Jefferson Beauregard Sessions the 4th is referring to THAT IS INSEPARABLE FROM BRITISH Spanish Dutch Portuguese German Danish USA kidnapping rape and ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
The little man must have a Napoleon, complex? He simply exhibitis, NOTHING resembling any Americans that I know...if I met one, I must have ignored him/her!
GreenAtheist comments on Feb 12, 2018:
To be fair though Sessions is a racist undeserving of my fairness, Anglo-American COMMON LAW is 11 centuries in the making that the little bigot Jefferson Beauregard Sessions the 4th is referring to THAT IS INSEPARABLE FROM BRITISH Spanish Dutch Portuguese German Danish USA kidnapping rape and ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
The little man must have a Napoleon, complex? He simply exhibitis, NOTHING resembling any Americans that I know...if I met one, I must have ignored him/her!
How, will we ever create peace in our own country, when our government officials keep ...
jaynomyth comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Religion, race, political affiliation, age. Divide and concur. How do you think the 1% keep themselves in power? If we drop the WMDivision, it's game over for them. Also, it helps to realize this country does not have a government. It is not a republic OR a democracy. It's been a corporation ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
Yes, I have to agree...but this MONSTER is hard to bring down! I was sure back in jan, '17, that the 'orange guy' would be outta that Office in no time!
There are people serving a life sentence, that has done less illegal activity than trump! I pride myself on knowing my anger and emotions and can feel and express my anger, without ever feeling out of control. But, I find myself having mean thoughts bordering on hate, when most of the members of this administration shows up on the 'big screen!' They have proven once and for all, 'birds of a feather really do flock together!'
jaynomyth comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Religion, race, political affiliation, age. Divide and concur. How do you think the 1% keep themselves in power? If we drop the WMDivision, it's game over for them. Also, it helps to realize this country does not have a government. It is not a republic OR a democracy. It's been a corporation ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
Yes, I have to agree...but this MONSTER is hard to bring down! I was sure back in jan, '17, that the 'orange guy' would be outta that Office in no time!
There are people serving a life sentence, that has done less illegal activity than trump! I pride myself on knowing my anger and emotions and can feel and express my anger, without ever feeling out of control. But, I find myself having mean thoughts bordering on hate, when most of the members of this administration shows up on the 'big screen!' They have proven once and for all, 'birds of a feather really do flock together!'
How, will we ever create peace in our own country, when our government officials keep ...
Marine comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Those who would promote dynasties of wealth play right into this class of racism and separation of the masses into the wealthy and the poor. They forget that they were where the others reside at some time but wish to bury these facts.They are also prone not to give credit to those who aided in ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
...wouldn't you think! But, no! we have a administration that says and does things, that never comes across my mind! I didn't come from class...but I have witnessed class and I have tried to behave with dignity, myself! Sessions is just from long ago and far away...FAR away! If he only knew how ignorant he appears...I guess the history books will take care of that!
Marine comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Those who would promote dynasties of wealth play right into this class of racism and separation of the masses into the wealthy and the poor. They forget that they were where the others reside at some time but wish to bury these facts.They are also prone not to give credit to those who aided in ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
...wouldn't you think! But, no! we have a administration that says and does things, that never comes across my mind! I didn't come from class...but I have witnessed class and I have tried to behave with dignity, myself! Sessions is just from long ago and far away...FAR away! If he only knew how ignorant he appears...I guess the history books will take care of that!
How, will we ever create peace in our own country, when our government officials keep ...
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 12, 2018:
America knows how to assimilate immigrants. We do it over and over. Messy, yes, but we do it. We even cross the color lines with relative ease. What looks to me like the differentiator is the slave family history. We don't seem to know how to honor that heritage so we stuff it away.
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
...and just pretend it was good for them!! That from a whole lot of those Jesus thumpers!
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 12, 2018:
America knows how to assimilate immigrants. We do it over and over. Messy, yes, but we do it. We even cross the color lines with relative ease. What looks to me like the differentiator is the slave family history. We don't seem to know how to honor that heritage so we stuff it away.
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
...and just pretend it was good for them!! That from a whole lot of those Jesus thumpers!
What a drag it is getting old.
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene ...Buckhead is now what midtown once was for the younger people. I loved living in Brookhaven, I could be downtown in 20 mins...not down P'tree Rd. I have become addicted to flat straight roads and light traffic! Every age, requires something different I find!
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene ...Buckhead is now what midtown once was for the younger people. I loved living in Brookhaven, I could be downtown in 20 mins...not down P'tree Rd. I have become addicted to flat straight roads and light traffic! Every age, requires something different I find!
How, will we ever create peace in our own country, when our government officials keep ...
Charlene comments on Feb 12, 2018:
The last question should be When are we going stop with the Heritage proclamations..this country has Always been Racist and Bigoted, from the get go..sadly.
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
I know, and if certain people discriminate against one sect...they will just keep adding to the list, until it covers every person they don't agree with! As these kinds of people mean to hurt other people...anyway they can. In their eyes there are humans and there are the others...and they mostly come from the religious right! Such inhumane ignorance!
Charlene comments on Feb 12, 2018:
The last question should be When are we going stop with the Heritage proclamations..this country has Always been Racist and Bigoted, from the get go..sadly.
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
I know, and if certain people discriminate against one sect...they will just keep adding to the list, until it covers every person they don't agree with! As these kinds of people mean to hurt other people...anyway they can. In their eyes there are humans and there are the others...and they mostly come from the religious right! Such inhumane ignorance!
How, will we ever create peace in our own country, when our government officials keep ...
Akfishlady comments on Feb 12, 2018:
It's a downward spiral and it's going to get worse if we don't do something about it. Some potential answers are spend more on education and have good teachers in classrooms, provide as much cultural education as possible, try to incorporate some tolerance into daily life, find ways to counter ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
I sure hope so...as it just gets worse by the day? Our government officials have never been this brazen in the past...
Akfishlady comments on Feb 12, 2018:
It's a downward spiral and it's going to get worse if we don't do something about it. Some potential answers are spend more on education and have good teachers in classrooms, provide as much cultural education as possible, try to incorporate some tolerance into daily life, find ways to counter ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
I sure hope so...as it just gets worse by the day? Our government officials have never been this brazen in the past...
What a drag it is getting old.
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene Brookhaven...
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene Brookhaven...
She pointed a gun at police and asked to die; they used drones to intercede instead - The Washington...
Freedompath comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Thank heavens, the police have come up with alternative to their, 'I feared for my life,' line! But, I just remembered that those drones can be outfitted with weapons! What next?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@dahermit i'm disgusted at the whole process...I have personal experience, with police when I had a depression breakdown and the help hot line, sent the police and hauled me off to hospital, where all test came out negative...when I wasn't clear about my rights! One of those officers, had to be shot by our sheriff, after he killed his exwife and her manfriend and was about to kill his own daughter!! Female neighbor became an officer, she told us, we would feel safer here, now that she was an officer, neighbors said they felt less safe, knowing that this person now carried a gun! Just 25 years ago, we hardly ever heard of police or a citizen shooting the police! Since last year, there has been nearly 1200 people (my last ck)shot by police! Something needs to change...to many people dying because of fear...that is a natural human emotion, not criminal behaviour...it really bothers me!
Freedompath comments on Feb 12, 2018:
Thank heavens, the police have come up with alternative to their, 'I feared for my life,' line! But, I just remembered that those drones can be outfitted with weapons! What next?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@dahermit i'm disgusted at the whole process...I have personal experience, with police when I had a depression breakdown and the help hot line, sent the police and hauled me off to hospital, where all test came out negative...when I wasn't clear about my rights! One of those officers, had to be shot by our sheriff, after he killed his exwife and her manfriend and was about to kill his own daughter!! Female neighbor became an officer, she told us, we would feel safer here, now that she was an officer, neighbors said they felt less safe, knowing that this person now carried a gun! Just 25 years ago, we hardly ever heard of police or a citizen shooting the police! Since last year, there has been nearly 1200 people (my last ck)shot by police! Something needs to change...to many people dying because of fear...that is a natural human emotion, not criminal behaviour...it really bothers me!
What a drag it is getting old.
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene yes, I have lived down town, too...delightfull years ago!
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene yes, I have lived down town, too...delightfull years ago!
What a drag it is getting old.
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene yippi yi ya...
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene yippi yi ya...
What a drag it is getting old.
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene yes, my Clarkesville is a lovely Mayberry like town...FULL of evangelicals and believe me, they do not think outside the box, either! See...how looks can be deceiving? NM, much more lolerant!
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene yes, my Clarkesville is a lovely Mayberry like town...FULL of evangelicals and believe me, they do not think outside the box, either! See...how looks can be deceiving? NM, much more lolerant!
What a drag it is getting old.
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene What will happen when we get all the points? Will we get a car or vacation to exotic place? That may be beyond my life expectancy...lol?
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene What will happen when we get all the points? Will we get a car or vacation to exotic place? That may be beyond my life expectancy...lol?
What a drag it is getting old.
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene ...so that is what it took? In that case i should be creeping along for a while as I will never catch up to you...I am afraid the universe might answer thinking I was serious! But, you go girl...
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Charlene ...so that is what it took? In that case i should be creeping along for a while as I will never catch up to you...I am afraid the universe might answer thinking I was serious! But, you go girl...
What a drag it is getting old.
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Well, hopefully you will get E-V-E-N older! It is a shock to wake up one morning and realize that you are on another phase of your life. One that looks and seems different somehow, but you still seem to be the same person on the inside. If you want to keep abreast of things, you simply must ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@EricTrommater ...my fun is not like normal people, movies, games, parties and Disney World lol...I am looking for the serious underbelly of humanity...and enjoying the search to boot!
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Well, hopefully you will get E-V-E-N older! It is a shock to wake up one morning and realize that you are on another phase of your life. One that looks and seems different somehow, but you still seem to be the same person on the inside. If you want to keep abreast of things, you simply must ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@EricTrommater ...my fun is not like normal people, movies, games, parties and Disney World lol...I am looking for the serious underbelly of humanity...and enjoying the search to boot!
Seeing this picture solidified my doubts about the christian religion.
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
That pic is surely a shock to the system...if only I could feed the hungry children of the world! Where are those Christians when you need them the most? Where? What about billionaires, could they not spare some pocket change for starving children? If we can't even give them food, what good is ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Douglas maybe in your lifetime...maybe??
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
That pic is surely a shock to the system...if only I could feed the hungry children of the world! Where are those Christians when you need them the most? Where? What about billionaires, could they not spare some pocket change for starving children? If we can't even give them food, what good is ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@Douglas maybe in your lifetime...maybe??
If anyone was looking for the perfect Valentine's gift.
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
That sight is a strange sight, especially for someone, who is a realist in every sense of the word! Is this the burning of bad spirits? Is this the celebration of life and death? Where is my valentine? If love is a valentine, why do we only get one...just one single day in a year? This is just...
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@EricTrommater... it did occur to me that it could be burning your enemies, lol. It did turn things upside down for me! I would fail to see how it would help keep people from killing each other...at least it never worked in my family. Ofcourse they never had that 'gallows humor,' either!
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
That sight is a strange sight, especially for someone, who is a realist in every sense of the word! Is this the burning of bad spirits? Is this the celebration of life and death? Where is my valentine? If love is a valentine, why do we only get one...just one single day in a year? This is just...
Freedompath replies on Feb 12, 2018:
@EricTrommater... it did occur to me that it could be burning your enemies, lol. It did turn things upside down for me! I would fail to see how it would help keep people from killing each other...at least it never worked in my family. Ofcourse they never had that 'gallows humor,' either!
American found with weapons in Uganda - Daily Nation
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Americans and their guns! So what was he planning with that arsenal? And, it looks as if he had a fedish...who know? Surely the fool wasn't there to 'start' something?
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@d_day I missed the back story...i did not know that! Tormented people need to be separated from weapons...I know that from experience!
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Americans and their guns! So what was he planning with that arsenal? And, it looks as if he had a fedish...who know? Surely the fool wasn't there to 'start' something?
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@d_day I missed the back story...i did not know that! Tormented people need to be separated from weapons...I know that from experience!
American found with weapons in Uganda - Daily Nation
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Americans and their guns! So what was he planning with that arsenal? And, it looks as if he had a fedish...who know? Surely the fool wasn't there to 'start' something?
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@d_day... we must work so hard separating 'fake news' and our own limited knowledge, in order to get to the bottom of something...it could all be a 'mountain out of a mole hill?'
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Americans and their guns! So what was he planning with that arsenal? And, it looks as if he had a fedish...who know? Surely the fool wasn't there to 'start' something?
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@d_day... we must work so hard separating 'fake news' and our own limited knowledge, in order to get to the bottom of something...it could all be a 'mountain out of a mole hill?'
What a drag it is getting old.
sassygirl3869 comments on Feb 11, 2018:
I've never acted my age. Had a baby at 42. Broke all the norms and continue to do so.
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
No wonder that you use 'sassygirl3869'...I guess that number is your age in the future?
sassygirl3869 comments on Feb 11, 2018:
I've never acted my age. Had a baby at 42. Broke all the norms and continue to do so.
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
No wonder that you use 'sassygirl3869'...I guess that number is your age in the future?
What a drag it is getting old.
diabhal comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Having gone bald starting in my 20s I now appreciate all my old school chums catching up on me. Makes me feel relatively younger with each year that passes.
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
One of my son's started balding in his 20s also!!! It is ok for a guy, but for me it hurts...even though I am not bald, just baby thin hair.
diabhal comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Having gone bald starting in my 20s I now appreciate all my old school chums catching up on me. Makes me feel relatively younger with each year that passes.
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
One of my son's started balding in his 20s also!!! It is ok for a guy, but for me it hurts...even though I am not bald, just baby thin hair.
What a drag it is getting old.
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
Charlene, you could be old, by the time you get to 1,000,000 points!!! (I am having difficulty getting 1800 more to catch up with you.)
Charlene comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Who's old?
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
Charlene, you could be old, by the time you get to 1,000,000 points!!! (I am having difficulty getting 1800 more to catch up with you.)
American found with weapons in Uganda - Daily Nation
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Americans and their guns! So what was he planning with that arsenal? And, it looks as if he had a fedish...who know? Surely the fool wasn't there to 'start' something?
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@d_day I guess that sounds right to me... shows my ignorance about the military and guns and ammo! I was trying to be 'flipped'...not authoritive, since I know nothing, other than what I have read about, either...but haven't we had some serious massacres with this many knives, guns and ammo?
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Americans and their guns! So what was he planning with that arsenal? And, it looks as if he had a fedish...who know? Surely the fool wasn't there to 'start' something?
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@d_day I guess that sounds right to me... shows my ignorance about the military and guns and ammo! I was trying to be 'flipped'...not authoritive, since I know nothing, other than what I have read about, either...but haven't we had some serious massacres with this many knives, guns and ammo?
Domestic Violence in the News.
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Please accept them into your life! What these feelings are telling you is that they have been underground and you are not completely healed! Every time we allow them to surface, there is an opportunity for healing! Find out what your feelings are telling you about your hurt and claim it. They ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@RushinroundWI I understand your point...and if you noticed I never advised her to express anything here, I said, 'find out what your feelings are telling about the hurt and claim it,' I never advised her to put it here or anywhere else. I only addressed the moment! As I pointed out, with someone else, healing is a process...like peeling an onion, it happens one layer at a time. Our person here will know what to do from this point on...
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Please accept them into your life! What these feelings are telling you is that they have been underground and you are not completely healed! Every time we allow them to surface, there is an opportunity for healing! Find out what your feelings are telling you about your hurt and claim it. They ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@RushinroundWI I understand your point...and if you noticed I never advised her to express anything here, I said, 'find out what your feelings are telling about the hurt and claim it,' I never advised her to put it here or anywhere else. I only addressed the moment! As I pointed out, with someone else, healing is a process...like peeling an onion, it happens one layer at a time. Our person here will know what to do from this point on...
Seeing this picture solidified my doubts about the christian religion.
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
That pic is surely a shock to the system...if only I could feed the hungry children of the world! Where are those Christians when you need them the most? Where? What about billionaires, could they not spare some pocket change for starving children? If we can't even give them food, what good is ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@Diddsdad that is exactly what the word is here too!
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
That pic is surely a shock to the system...if only I could feed the hungry children of the world! Where are those Christians when you need them the most? Where? What about billionaires, could they not spare some pocket change for starving children? If we can't even give them food, what good is ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@Diddsdad that is exactly what the word is here too!
Domestic Violence in the News.
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Please accept them into your life! What these feelings are telling you is that they have been underground and you are not completely healed! Every time we allow them to surface, there is an opportunity for healing! Find out what your feelings are telling you about your hurt and claim it. They ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@RushinroundWI that is good point, but I am also finding that when people feel free and safe to tell their stories, healing starts to take place and once we get the hang of it...the healing speeds up, with or without another therapist.
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Please accept them into your life! What these feelings are telling you is that they have been underground and you are not completely healed! Every time we allow them to surface, there is an opportunity for healing! Find out what your feelings are telling you about your hurt and claim it. They ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@RushinroundWI that is good point, but I am also finding that when people feel free and safe to tell their stories, healing starts to take place and once we get the hang of it...the healing speeds up, with or without another therapist.
I've made level 7( wipes tears froms eye).
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Charlene...now you slow down, you hear! This will create a lot of work for older people, just trying to keep pace! I bet you want breeze on through the next 40,000 points! Congrats, though on this one!
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@Charlene OMG...and I don't mean the religious one!!!
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
Charlene...now you slow down, you hear! This will create a lot of work for older people, just trying to keep pace! I bet you want breeze on through the next 40,000 points! Congrats, though on this one!
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@Charlene OMG...and I don't mean the religious one!!!
False hope gives you comfort for better hope? True or false?
walklightly comments on Feb 11, 2018:
my honest-to-goodness answer? hope is faith, once removed, & as such too close in comfort to belief, which i understand is a kind of lullaby. i despise all three of them: the un-wholey trinity :D
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@walklightly 'boy howdy' is an old country greeting! And the way you weaved your idea, made me think in a totally different way. Like I sometimes want get certain poems, kinda of thing?
walklightly comments on Feb 11, 2018:
my honest-to-goodness answer? hope is faith, once removed, & as such too close in comfort to belief, which i understand is a kind of lullaby. i despise all three of them: the un-wholey trinity :D
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@walklightly 'boy howdy' is an old country greeting! And the way you weaved your idea, made me think in a totally different way. Like I sometimes want get certain poems, kinda of thing?
Anyone else have a psychotic parent or close family member?
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
I understand the company that I am in here! Yes, I did have similar experience, over my whole life, I waffled between hoping my mother would be brought to account...and spending many awaking moment hoping she wouldn't go to jail! It was a kind of living nighmare, while she was alive! She died a ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@Dida the thing that we must face is that as adults, we are responsible for our recovery. We can't go back an undo the damage. What we can do is heal our broken places! And no one can do that for us...as no one else lives inside us! Healing, is exactly like an onion, it must be done one layer at a time...to do otherwise would not work because it would be catastrophic to our psyche (overload). And, I will share another discovery that I made in my very mentally ill family and other people that i have observed with mental problems. These people do love, but it cannot be expressed with nurturing and compassion or tender emotions. Instead of a loving expression being a support and strength...it appears as a weakness or vulnerability that exposes them to hurt (great hurt, not an everyday slight). My mother was sexual abused from age 5-13 by 3 stepbrothers and a natural brother. She tried to tell, but was not taken seriouly and protected but instead was beaten...had a still born birth at age 12 (most likely was blamed for her own abuse). Before, she passed, I ask her why she had not told us, her whole story and she said, 'because I thought that you would think that I was to blame.' My mother, could never show love, the kind that expresses tenderness and empathy and compassion...that would expose more vulnerability than she could EVER tolerate! (If no healing has taken place, it will remain so!) So, in my family we all stayed at a safe distance from one another!
That was my observation!
Freedompath comments on Feb 11, 2018:
I understand the company that I am in here! Yes, I did have similar experience, over my whole life, I waffled between hoping my mother would be brought to account...and spending many awaking moment hoping she wouldn't go to jail! It was a kind of living nighmare, while she was alive! She died a ...
Freedompath replies on Feb 11, 2018:
@Dida the thing that we must face is that as adults, we are responsible for our recovery. We can't go back an undo the damage. What we can do is heal our broken places! And no one can do that for us...as no one else lives inside us! Healing, is exactly like an onion, it must be done one layer at a time...to do otherwise would not work because it would be catastrophic to our psyche (overload). And, I will share another discovery that I made in my very mentally ill family and other people that i have observed with mental problems. These people do love, but it cannot be expressed with nurturing and compassion or tender emotions. Instead of a loving expression being a support and strength...it appears as a weakness or vulnerability that exposes them to hurt (great hurt, not an everyday slight). My mother was sexual abused from age 5-13 by 3 stepbrothers and a natural brother. She tried to tell, but was not taken seriouly and protected but instead was beaten...had a still born birth at age 12 (most likely was blamed for her own abuse). Before, she passed, I ask her why she had not told us, her whole story and she said, 'because I thought that you would think that I was to blame.' My mother, could never show love, the kind that expresses tenderness and empathy and compassion...that would expose more vulnerability than she could EVER tolerate! (If no healing has taken place, it will remain so!) So, in my family we all stayed at a safe distance from one another!
That was my observation!
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