J.J.
Someone likes to start a fight on here to get there highs for the day. I am going to water on this thread . Right J.J.

[ December 13, 2005, 12:28 PM: Message edited by: Nancy50 ]

Good job, JJ. As usual, your sense of humor shines through your words. Hand me a hose, girlfriend!

I never give out any personal information to any site unless absolutely necessary. I'm with you JJ, no matter how beneficial one article or one experience on a website might be, I simply refuse to give any personal information away to any site I'm not going to deal with on an ongoing basis. Maybe it stems from my years of computer network techie training...I had to do several brutal courses on Internet security and that was enough for me to exercise personal caution.

It doesn't say anything whatsoever about the sites themselves, it's a personal choice...mine's based on a wealth of information I've had to study about cookies and spyware and how these sites use your information, despite the best-sounding privacy policies.

Nancy, sometimes I too can feel an underlying friction and hint of aggressiveness in some of the posts in these forums lately. It's sad and daunting for us more introverted, sensitive types, but the bottom line is that I love this place, and love the culture and pray constantly that the Spirit of Love and Truth will always protect it and us from being hurt by each other, whether deliberately or inadvertently.

My hope is that we can always find our way back from any friction to reasserting the caring respect that makes it the healing place it has been and can be and will continue to be.

Well said Eagle. Indeed.

Hugs, JJ

Wow, I just made a simple statement and was not trying to start a fight at all!

I changed the word "sinister" to a harmless link to the P.D. Hope that's better.

[ December 13, 2005, 01:46 PM: Message edited by: ladybug ]

I've been reading this thread and wondering why some are finding hostility? You can read any text as aggressive and hostile if you want, depending on the voice in your head. So, it seems to me (once again) that without the nonverbals (eye contact, facial expression, voice inflection, tone, pitch, etc.) there's miscommunication going on here. I suggest that everyone read a "questionable" sentence out loud, using different voice inflections and emphasizing different words. It's a common exercise in beginning nonverbal communication classes.

Eagle and J.J.
Well said indeed . Some set at there computer and think what can I do today to start a fight and get my high for the day . They want a cat fight and then you start losing people off the boomer site . These people who start the fight sit back on there and laugh into there PC .

Ok, Jackie I turn the hose over too you .

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten. Buddha

Lovely quote, Vi. Words for all of us to live by.