" it is never too late to be what you might have been".
i read this today and thought of you.
purps.
There is one quote that I absolutely love, when Ghandi first landed in Britain, one of the officials said to him, "How does it feel to be in civilization?" Ghandi said, "Do you know of any?"
My other favorite quote is from Mae West:
When faced with the choice between two evils, I always pick the one I haven't tried yet.
Sherry
i've only posted since feb 07..but i have lurked for several years prior and there was usually something interesting on the board.
as i was reading the active topics list this morning, only a couple things jumped out at me as interesting...its been this way since the dgate and tgate incidents.... i was discussing this with a long time poster via im yesterday....does it seem to anyone else that so many of the topics are ...i dont know....odd...or different than they used to be...and i dont mean that in a good way.. i miss the newbies coming on and telling us their stories.... i miss the long time posters updating us on their lives post-borg... i guess with the recent uproar, the lurkers are hesitant to become newbies (cant say as i blame them now...we probably scared them off , and maybe the vets are just as hesitant...after all, someone went 2 years with their fraud/hoax...who will believe anyone else now?
i hope this is just a temporary cycle on this board..i have read many many posts from the archives...i hope one day soon we can get back to a happy medium here.. by the way, i like the fluff threads, but these seem to be more and more sex related (maybe that word will wake someone)... yet they get all the attention....and then someone goes too far and it gets locked down by a mod and the poster restricted......(i am not a prude...just sometimes enough is enough).
Changeling, what are you seeing? Its a lotus flower with the goddess in each petal. Anything more than that I don't see. Perhaps because its such a small size.
Sherry
i work nights so when i get off i'll run by walmart to grab something to make for breakfast or just if i need something or whatever.
this morning at 6:55 (i know because i looked at my watch) a little black girl maybe 7 years old came up to me by herself to offer me a tract... i mean come on it's still full freaking dark out and this poor little kid is handing out tracts alone.
i asked her "where are your parents.
No kidding, I would have marched her over to her parents and read them the riot act. Too many kids are abducted to think this is even remotely safe. JWs revel in bad news so they of anyone should know this. Then I would have observed them for awhile, if the situation went back as before I would have called CPS.
Sherry
i've only posted since feb 07..but i have lurked for several years prior and there was usually something interesting on the board.
as i was reading the active topics list this morning, only a couple things jumped out at me as interesting...its been this way since the dgate and tgate incidents.... i was discussing this with a long time poster via im yesterday....does it seem to anyone else that so many of the topics are ...i dont know....odd...or different than they used to be...and i dont mean that in a good way.. i miss the newbies coming on and telling us their stories.... i miss the long time posters updating us on their lives post-borg... i guess with the recent uproar, the lurkers are hesitant to become newbies (cant say as i blame them now...we probably scared them off , and maybe the vets are just as hesitant...after all, someone went 2 years with their fraud/hoax...who will believe anyone else now?
i hope this is just a temporary cycle on this board..i have read many many posts from the archives...i hope one day soon we can get back to a happy medium here.. by the way, i like the fluff threads, but these seem to be more and more sex related (maybe that word will wake someone)... yet they get all the attention....and then someone goes too far and it gets locked down by a mod and the poster restricted......(i am not a prude...just sometimes enough is enough).
I don't fit into the cliques either. Luckily I've been marching to my own drummer for most of my life. I too am attacked for being "sensitive" occassionally. I for sure don't read threads from people that have done so, and I tend to stay off certain topics as well.
I have noticed the board has changed a bit in the last few weeks with regards to topics. I, however, usually get a kick out of the sex threads. I think partially its because it was such a taboo subject before and we find we can talk about it, laugh about it, even discuss it, and guess what? NOT A LIGHTENING BOLT IN SIGHT!
Carry on, lol.
Sherry
i felt it was good to start a thread on this as methamphetamine addiction has become one of the most abused drugs in our society.
unfortunately, from what i've heard is it is relatively cheap to make , not as expensive as other drugs, and highly addictive once a person is " hooked" they have an extremely hard time getting off it.
crank or speed as it is called makes people highly aggressive, mean spirited, and can make them violent.
Don't know anyone addicted to meth, but my youngest brother is a heroin addict. He's been on the methodone program for years. He's what I call a tortured soul. We grew up in an abusive household, as some may have heard my story, but my youngest brother was born when I was 16, and I remember thinking, I wish I could take you with me and you could avoid the life I know you will have. Couldn't happen of course, the rest of us gradually moved away and he was their only subject. Top that off with, he was also sexually abused by a family friend. Then at the ripe old age of ten or eleven, the idiot my sister was then married to, gave him and all of his (even younger) kinds drugs. Well thankfully he went to prison and they were divorced, but the damage was done. Cory found out drugs were a place to escape all that pain.
He's 35 now, looks like a homeless person (he isn't, not quite). His teeth are a mess, and his legs and arms are covered with sores from the years of shooting up. He's has Hepatitis (can't remember the alphabet that goes along with that), and constantly gets staff infections that are resistant to antibiotics and spends time in the hospital every few months.
With all of that, Meth just doesn't take as long to get you to the place he is. Its vile and evil.
My heart goes out to those that fight these addictions. May they all find peace outside a substance.
Sherry
http://firpocarr.com/_wsn/page5.html.
the bible and black male sexuality(does size really matter?
)by firpo w. carr, ph.d.los angeles sentinel newspaper(october 25 - 31, 2007)it has been rumored from time immemorial that when it comes to genitalia, black men are generally more endowed than are men of other races.
diverse translations of the Bible bare this out
His phony PhD surely isn't in English. ---or was that supposed to be a pun?
Sherry
I doubt this was Linda's first incarnation. And unfortunately what he learned from us here was not that he hurt us and what a horrible manipulative thing he did to us, but I think his lesson was - if I had only done "this" I think I could have gotten away with it, or next time I'll do this thing differently and then maybe they will never catch on.
He's one sick puppy and I feel very sorry for him.
Sherry
the city of philadelphia has decided to punish the boy scouts of america because it will not allow homosexuals to serve as scout leaders.
city officials said they will charge the cradle of liberty scouts council $200,000 a year to use the city-owned headquarters.
the council was paying $1 per year (since 1928).
Well so this is the thread that was referred to in the Dumbledore thread. Wow. Reborn all that was accomplished by keeping gay males out of the boy scouts was to keep the access for those who truly are predaters. About 99% of all pedophiles that pray on young boys are heterosexual males, many of them married. The vast majority of gay men are not attracted to boys and that has nothing to do with proximity or access.
This is incredible that this stereotype is still being spread.
**shakes head sadly**
Sherry
didn't see this one coming...
http://www.cnn.com/2007/showbiz/books/10/20/harry.potter.ap/index.html
Didn't see the other thread and didn't see the sarcasm emoticon so sorry if I misunderstood. If I can, however, lots of other people can as well. I'm not all angry, I'm just trying to point out that it's harmful to perpetuate that stereotype even unintentionally. Thanks, though for telling me what was really going on, because I was surprised at the source.
Sherry
we have such an interesting group of people from around the world on this board.
it might be interesting to have a thread where you discuss a hobby, something interesting that happened in the past, somewhere you've been, etc.. not deep, dark confessions - just interesting stuff.. .
* i have travelled into all 48 american states that are not named alaska or hawaii.. * for the past few years, i have had a slight walking impairment due to a form of arthritis known as ankylosing spondylitis.
1. At one point in my life I suited up and went into radiation zones to do inspections.
2. At another point in my life I was producer for a small almost no budget documentary about PUREX (Hanford Washington Plutonium Purification Plant - that's not the acronym, I don't know what that stands for, but thats what the function of the place was). PUREX was decommissioned and mothballed. We gave the VHS tape to every employee that "worked themselves out of a job."
3. I modeled one time in my early 20s at a bridal show.
I think those are pretty much the oddest things that no one on here probably knows about me.
Sherry
