please forgive my typing it is one handed lately. in the mohave desert a place called sunrise rock holds a memorial to fallen soldiers since 1934. the memorial has been boarded up. why you ask or maybe you don't care lol. the symbol is a simple cross that has been faithfully maintained by friends of the old ww1 veteran and miner who put it there. he originally constructed a very plain wood cross, his friends who travel almost 300 miles put up a metal cross keeping a promise to their beloved friend.
here's the deal a gentleman who is religious and a vet decided he didn't like that idea so he went to the supreme court to have this cross taken down. all these years it was not an issue it wasn't as if a church was built there just a simple memorial to fallen ones as if to say to say we will remember you.i am not particularly religious but this country was based on the idea of certain freedoms sure the freedom to be an atheist or even an ant worshiper but when did things become so idiotic. its not a monument to a god but a very humanistic icon honoring those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. it is someone trying to keep their word to a friend. i suppose in the grand scheme that cross in the middle of public land what an abomination lol. maybe all the other crosses or symbols in public property should be uprooted also.
Hmm well this blog is being written with quite a bit of humor. Something sorely lacking in my asthma induced hibernative state lately. Let me use the disclaimer that I don't believe myself to be a prig, prude, snob or any of those other adjectives and tend to be fairly open. However maybe that is just more self deception and due to my age I am more old fashioned than I ever thought.
Here is the situation.
A gentleman or man or boy in man's clothing IM'd me this evening and asked me if I wanted to see some naked pics of him. I have never had the displeasure of this man's company or he of mine. This is someone that I have not talked to in about two months and even then it wasn't an extensive online situation. However this request took me by surprise so I asked some questions.Probably questions that only quirky people as myself might ask without immediately blocking someone.
The questions were as follows. Is this method ie the nude pics working for you to get dates? Am a guinea pig for these pics? First question was are you serious you must be talking about cute little baby butt photos. The ones that make almost everyone smile.
He was serious.
What is scary is that for about a minute I thought about viewing these pictures. Thought maybe he needed some encouragement but then my brain cells thawed out and started working and I said nyet.
There really is not judgment but it's not my bag. Understanding that we live in an exhibitionist society and people plaster their privates all over the place. The human body can be quite a lovely thing and in the right context is wonderful naked. Excuse me all you nudist out there am not pointing fingers at you. I don't know about other women but I like a little something to the imagination when it comes to pics. In the raw is not my cup of tea unless we are talking cane sugar.
I admit that I got on this site just to put my pic up and see what happened. I have never been very confident about my physical appearance, but enjoy seeing how people react and connect.
What is ironic is the pic that I like the least is up there with the highest ranking at least so far.
So far this site for me has been a few emails back and forth but mainly the picture ranking thing. I have been on here for several months and not really made friends. It is probably my doing some or there is something in my profile that doesn't invite friendship.
What do you all think out there? Are you making connections? Just curious. Not asking you to go rate my pic because the physical isn't what I am about. So get back to me with your honest opinions.
Thanks for your time.
Dawn
Over the last couple of years this has been a term that I have run across quite a bit mainly in someone's ads on an online site. I went to Wikedpedia and checked it out and apparently the concept was attributed to Plato, Greek philosopher. According to Plato's Symposium humans were once made up of two heads and four legs and arms but the gods split us in two. The gods were apparently threatened by these beings and Zeus came up with the idea to divide them.
The concept that I have heard most often is that these souls are destined to seek each other out to complete the other. One of my good friends believes that we have several soul mates. That our good friends can be of that ilk. Of course he is in an open relationship and doesn't believe in one person fulfilling all his needs, still its and interesting take. Another friend whom I asked who is quite religious does not hold to the idea at all.
Frankly I don't know for myself and would be almost afraid of what my soul mate would be like. If they are complimentary, awesome but what if they are your exact opposite? What if you are humorous and they are super serious? What if they are compassionate and you are uncaring? How many people actually find their soul mates? They know that they know that they now its the one for them.
That term has been thrown around quite a bit. Why? Well I have a theory that we have such a natural hunger for love and acceptance and the ultimate in that would be another half to complete us. Some of us don't want to accept the fact that we may not have another half out there. If we do then shouldn't everyone, but in spite of the net there seems to be so many lonely people out there. In my opinion the net can make us even lonelier. Would we even recognize "the one" if they came along? What if they are beautiful and we are ugly? What if that person is already married? What if they are gay and we straight? There are so many what ifs lol. Shouldn't there be a pull so strong from our spirits to theirs that we can't avoid one another? That we are like magnets or fireflies drawn to each others flame. Who knows.
I do know that it is quite heartwarming when I see people happy together and who make it in the long haul. They stick it out together through all the crap men and women go through then that is "love". The goopy kind of infatuation to my mind is lust it can turn into love and granted lust is essential in a romantic relationship, but it doesn't last, and our bodies fade and the real thing takes its place if we are lucky. In a lot of ways I am very much a romantic its the way I was born, but I admit to becoming a bit of a cynic after being online for a while and dating some. A lot of online connections seems to be about hooking up with someone not out of what one can give but out of what can receive. There are a lot of people out there too who are seeking something precious and I applaud you yipppeee. Don't give up.
Maybe just maybe I can let my imagination go a bit and hold onto that idea that some marvelous person out there would think I was the stuff. That our hearts would beat in sync and that we could finish each others sentences. I don't know but for now if you are out there dang it give me a sign.
I have received a couple of emails from spammers using pics of our boys in uniform. The reason I am bringing it up is that this is a new one to me. I don't know about others but I have a lot of respect for our guys in the military and it affects me when one of them emails me. The spammers are tapping into this just giving others a heads up. You can tell by the way they write. They know just enough English to be dangerous.
Well I haven't written in about two months which many will shrug and think so, I don't even know this chic. However I have been very prolific writer of short poems and blogs for about 7 years now since my young friend died tragically. It was my outlet something that had been pushed down for many years. Admittedly and thankfully for the Okcupid crowd they don't miss another poet or blogger as there are so many of us trying to connect and put our insides out to the world online lol. Millions of blogs a day in fact not including all the other creative, self-expression that has come across the net. There are many greats out there still waiting to be read lol.
Tonight I had the wonderful opportunity to go to a movie with a good friend. She is the kind of person that you can do anything with and you feel uplifted and challenged at the same time. She has had her struggles as all have but has a lot of grace in dealing what life has placed on her shoulders to bear.
Anyway the movie "The Secret Life of Bees" based on the novel by Sue Monk Kidd was meant to be moving and dang it is certain to evoke tears flowing from eyes less sensitive then old water fountain here. I hate to cry in public. It's okay to comfort others but I don't like my own eyes to form those odd shaped water globules and smear my makeup. When in Oregon I could just use the rainy night as an excuse but not in Colorado.
Anyway, not reading the book, I went into that movie and proceeded to cry through about a third of it. I know who cares. As a chic I am expected to be emotional and usually I avoid these type of movies. The sentimental ones where all types of emotions are brought into play by the main characters. Where you identify with memories of a time and place that would have no bearing on your real life.
In spite of being a sentimental woman I usually like to laugh, and figured that I spent enough of my life crying already. Yet there is something about stories that bring up that part of us. That part of us that relates to not feeling loved and maybe even feels guilty for events in life that we have innocently had a hand in. The very type of emotions that I think a lot of us avoid at times, because frankly it's just hard and usually brings up say in this case our childhood. Even if we can't relate to the setting or some of the events. I have never been beaten because of my race, an issue in this movie, and have always had the privilege to pretty much go wherever I wanted to. Yet when I see this even in the form of fiction on a screen I feel outraged all types of basic human emotions and empathy for the characters come to the forefront whether I want them to or not.
Short blog huh. Movies like this have all the elements to me of greatness, chemistry in the cast, humor,drama,tragedy yet in the end the human spirit prevails. What's not to like.
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