What a sad story. I bet you were a great cousin and will keep him alive in your memory.
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In Loving Memory of My Cousin, Chris Mason.........
by knot4me inan elder gets married and has 2 children.
wife gets dfed, they get devorced and elder gets children.
elder marries my cousin, who doesn't want children but raises them like evil stepmother.
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For all you bad spellers out there.
by stevenyc inget google toolbar!
it comes with a spellcheck.
type out anything on the web, hit the button, and hey presto!.
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poppers
I don't mind misspelled words so much; what bugs me more is improper use of certain words: their/there/they're, it/it's, your/you're, to/too - that sort of thing. We all "mispell" once in a while, but it IS laziness (for the most part I think) that prevents one from using the proper word when writing.
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poppers
Please keep posting here. There are many people here who will listen nonjudgmentally, who will offer solid advice. You are not alone.
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Are you a "here I am" or a "there you are"?
by Mulan ina friend of mine read a book about 30 years ago, that said people are basically categorized into two main types.
here's how you define yourself:.
when you walk into a room full of people, do you think to yourself "here i am" or do you say "there you are".. i am definitely a "there you are".
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poppers
From Gretchen956:
"Hmmmmm poppers, sounds suspisciously like Scientology. You a member?"
Nope. I am not a member of anything. What I express is a result of my direct experience, not some idea borrowed from some ideology, philosophy, or religion. After being challenged to find "me" and actually looking for it, "I" was nowhere to be found. Not finding a "me" I realized there cannot be a "you" either. Look for yourself and see if this is true or not. See if you can actually find the specific entity "me' apart from ideas held about "me" - let me know if you can find anything other than ideas. If "you" are not an idea, then what are "you"? Hint: what do all ideas, emotions, sensations, objects, and events unfold within? Discover/remember/reconnect consciously with THAT. When you find it you will know directly what I am talking about for "yourself."
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Any apple users in the house?
by chrissy inhey ya'll, hope everyone is doing good:) i was wondering if anyone operates on mac, because i just switched to the g4 powerbook and am still trying to figure a few things out.
all stuff i will probably figure out on my own anyway, but one little thing is spacing and paragraph formations on this forum.
for instance, this line was intended to start as a new paragraph, but something tells me it will not, and instead this will be one single run on paragraph.
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poppers
No problem, chrissy. Post away, girl!
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You Can't Get It Back
by Big Dog inthe higher education thread got me thinking about the thing i loathe, despise, hate with the intensity of a thousand suns about the wbts, namely, the loss of my childhood.
i remember when engaging in blistering arguements with my parents about being able to play sports or take up an instrument or dream of being an astronaut, or whatever thing the society frowned on that i wasn't allowed to do at the end i would always get the same final reply, "when you are 18 and out of the house you can do whatever you want.
i can go back and play pop warner football, or little league baseball, or play in the school band, etc?
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poppers
No, you can't get it back. You can't get back the "good stuff" you think you missed, the "good times" you had, or anything else for that matter. But you can live your life right now in this very moment without regret about the past or anxiety about the future. Right here, right now - that's all you've got and all you'll ever have. Let the past go, let the future take care of itself, live life now, it's all there is.
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Any apple users in the house?
by chrissy inhey ya'll, hope everyone is doing good:) i was wondering if anyone operates on mac, because i just switched to the g4 powerbook and am still trying to figure a few things out.
all stuff i will probably figure out on my own anyway, but one little thing is spacing and paragraph formations on this forum.
for instance, this line was intended to start as a new paragraph, but something tells me it will not, and instead this will be one single run on paragraph.
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poppers
I love the Mac, though I don't own one - don't own any computer. When at my brother's I use his mac with Safari browser - there are limited things I can do compared to PCs, though, on JWD. Make sure you check "Automatic Cr/Lf" in "options" below the box you are typing your post in. That might help in formatting your message.
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Are you a "here I am" or a "there you are"?
by Mulan ina friend of mine read a book about 30 years ago, that said people are basically categorized into two main types.
here's how you define yourself:.
when you walk into a room full of people, do you think to yourself "here i am" or do you say "there you are".. i am definitely a "there you are".
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What I am getting at is that the "you" who you THINK you are sets you apart from everything else - this "idea of you" is what I refer to as ego. There may be "shyness" arising but that shyness is no part of what you ACTUALLY are. If there is some claim being made, some "ownership" of shyness , no matter what the cause, then that ownership indicates that there is some identification going on. Flowing from the ownership of shyness social interaction becomes affected. If the shyness can be allowed to arise and not become viewed as "mine" there will be less liklihood of it exerting the control that it seems to now.
The question which was posed in the thread is based upon an unexamined assumption: that there is "someone" who either views things primarily from a "here I am" viewpoint, or from a "there you are" viewpoint. Either way, the basic assumption of "I" and "you" has not been investigated. In my own life I was very shy and socially withdrawn. When I stumbled upon the idea of searching out the existence of the "me" that I THOUGHT I was I couldn't find it. With the collapse of the "me identification" the tendency I had to be shy faded away. -
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How to keep people from finding out your secret.
by garybuss inhow to keep people from finding out your secret.
tell them, then they can't find out.. tell them, then you are in charge of the information rather than chance.
tell them, then your fear of them finding out goes away.. .
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poppers
Sounds pretty reasonable to me.
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Free will?
by upside/down inwe are not given the same chance that "adam & eve" were given.... we actually should all be given our own "paradise" planet and the same parameters that were given to them.... we are not...we are born with all sorts of inborn "imperfections" and outside influences...beyond our control.
so any "test" is a farce.. interesting that the only "perfect" people (jc don't count as he was pseudo-human...he was in the know)...failed....yet supposedly, many of us "imperfects" are successful...how so?.
"religion" fails to satisfy the truly enquiring mind........again!.
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poppers
Free will implies that there is "someone" there who can choose or not choose to "do" something. When searched for, no such entity will ever be found. All that will be found are ideas about who/what one is, and that in which those ideas arise. Without a "me" to choose there can be no free will. What appears as free will is an appearance only exercised by an "apparant" me. This apparant me is a phantom only, pretending to exercise or pretending to deny free will.