Yes Bogus lit my fuse.
Not many say I am wrong because I usually will tell you up front that I am wrong in so many ways. I do not put on false pretenses of being right. And in this instance I do not feel I am wrong. Stating an opinion is not bogus. Perhaps I should clarify that if you are to say things that offend then expect a fight. I find it offensive that you call my post bogus. I feel it was a bit uncalled for but it has made my night amusing and kept my mind bright. At any rate, regarding my quote, you are absolutely right, but how you jumped from my statement to the assumption that I am relating it to nuclear power ONLY is beyond me. Maybe you read it in context and that is alright too and perhaps I did not expand enough to cover all aspects that possibly could be brought into this discussion.
To me, power is not always what we hold in the form of nuclear. For instance....You had the power to call my post bogus. Did you stop to think if you should or not? Did you have a morbid curiosity if it would push my buttons. How fast can she explode? Can we make a battle? Do you see what I am getting at? We have the power for a million things be it nuclear energy or buying processed meat and we humans do not stop to think if we should in all cases.
Please do not say offensive things and then tell me to settle down. I actually am very calm. I cannot stand when people do that. It is a very silly thing to do in my opinion, and I stand by that. It is like passing gas and running. WTF? You let off a foul remark, now expect for me to discuss things with you with a funny look on my face. (so to speak)
For instace again. Power to influence people. Do we really need this? Should we really have the right to influence a nation of people to take actions this way or that. Should a religion have the power to choose who lives who dies who is shunned, who rules? There is tangible power and there are things untangible. For instance, I smoke. Should I? No. My Vegitarian friend smokes, yet she thinks I suck because I smoke Marlboro and she a completely non toxic etc...blah blah blah blah.... Mine are made in America by of age workers. Hers by underage workers. Do you see my point? She has the power to influence and the right to smoke? We both have the right to do whatever. But should we. She promotes probably underage working and when it comes down to it we both are in the wrong by smoking in the first place.
THE THINGS WE PEOPLE DO. I will say it again. There are small things we can change if we are aware of what we change by our actions.
Then again you say tainted. Maybe it is just a different taste in seasonings. I cannot see how you can hold a man who went and did something that I may be assuming, but I think you have not, as being a substance that would taint anything. He brought you photos that made you cry. You were moved and you felt. That is his job. He did it well.
I think there is a lot we can learn from everything. Like I learned that I did not like being called bogus over an opinion and a proverbial olive branch is not really one when coated with only a veneer of peace.
Sparkplug comes from my crazy hair and not my temper. There is another name for that I have been given and that was a long time ago. And as a reminder I am not mad right now. I think we just read a portion of what each person was saying and ran with it. Personally because I don't say die easy I think you ran further.
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TEX- I don't think it is self absorption. I think it is appropriate that this is where you were when this happened. It seems to just feel like it would for if one were in that position and perhaps the seeing of people in such a hopeless place may have somewhere made you see how much you had before you. Or maybe now when you get blue...(as I know I do) It may be a great reference point. If I am not in a mental ward in Chernobyl, and eating out of a dish totally void of knowledge, then I must be ok. This all will get better. You are an amazing person Tex-
