gingerb Forum Posts (4,139)

RE: How do I???????????

These instructions with pics on this site are pretty much idiot proof....

RE: Lying about your age - is it acceptable? How much is acceptable?

Lying about anything is never acceptable.

RE: I NEED HELP ASAP

The woman was bearing witness, as they put it, in her particular branch of Christianity. It is a form of spamming and against the rules of CS and many other sites.

All you had to do was report her, or inform her politely that it was against the rules, and leave well enough alone...

Like you said, OUR world.....It doesn't have to be a nasty place just because you don't like some of it.

RE: I Really Struggle With This, What Are Your Views???

Yes. Responsibility for one's self is sadly lacking in most life scenarios these days. You have a good point there.

RE: I Really Struggle With This, What Are Your Views???

Hi Morgan,

You, cynical? Never !!! Truly, though, I think it is good tos tep back and see it all from a distance sometimes.

It keeps me as sane as I'll ever get.

RE: I Really Struggle With This, What Are Your Views???

Hi Tina.

It certainly is a weird little micro world.

RE: Implications, Consequences, Postulations and Posits...

Revelation

We make ourselves a place apart
Behind light words that tease and flout,
But oh, the agitated hear
Till someone really find us out.

'Tis pity if the case require
(Or so we say) that in the end
We speak the literal to inspire
The understanding of a friend.


But so with all, from babes that play
At hid-and-seek to God afar,
So all who hide too well away
Must speak and tell us where they are.

Written by Robert Frost (1874-1963)

RE: THE AESTHETIC VOYAGE

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

D.H. Lawrence.

RE: Implications, Consequences, Postulations and Posits...

We could become his waking nightmare then.

RE: What does a romantic/love relationship mean to you?

Hi Tina That's what I was trying to say. You said it so much better.

RE: Implications, Consequences, Postulations and Posits...

It is said that all the great inventors were day dreamers.

RE: Implications, Consequences, Postulations and Posits...

So that's how it's done. You fit Wilde's description of the man who sees the dawn first.....wisdom certainly comes from dreams...

RE: What does a romantic/love relationship mean to you?

Love to me is total acceptance of each other, on all levels.

When it's ok to be who you are and no one minds...

RE: THE AESTHETIC VOYAGE

I have always felt that love was stronger than our humanity. The rewards etch themselves strongly and often would have been incomprehensible before they happened. I believe that life is full of aesthetic moments that leave us awestruck.

RE: THE AESTHETIC VOYAGE

Being led is such a wonderful way of learning trust, don't you think?

RE: THE AESTHETIC VOYAGE

More foolish than strong, but I loved the kids. I often took hidings for them. I never saw it as anything but the right thing to do, even if it had a bad side. I was a very old-headed child. I'm sure anyone else would have done the same.

RE: THE AESTHETIC VOYAGE

Life happens to us all. We just have to remember to keep jumping back in........

RE: THE AESTHETIC VOYAGE

All this talk of beauty and pathos reminded me of a time when I was a young girl af about 9 or 10 years old. I used to be sent out on a Sunday afternoon with my, then, 7 siblings, to take them for a walk of about 6 or 8 miles into the countryside.

I was always told to keep them clean and watch them and not let them get into any mischief. I knew I'd be badly beaten if I didn't so this. I had been beaten already that day and my legs bore the red welts of a wet tea towel.

On this one particular Sunday, I was walking about a mile from our house, when the kids wanted to go in a field and chase rabbits. The field was muddy and I was torn.

They were only little kids and not used to much freedom and I wanted so much to let them go and have fun. I knew we'd all be locked up again when we got home. The field was safe, even if the kids got their clothes dirty.

I was really in the middle of a dilemma when I suddenly heard the sound of a song thrush in the hedge beside me. It was like I was getting compensation for the thing I was about to do.

I nodded and let them go, while I stood there enchanted, and engrossed in the beauty and wonder of the sounds that little bird was making, tears of joy and sadness pouring down my cheeks, knowing what the decision was going to cost me.

I remember my heart just filling up with each moment I stood there. I was filled with the squeals of delight from the children mingled with the song of the thrush and it was the most glorious chorous I had ever heard. It stayed with me a lifetime...

When I got home? Yep the inevitable happened...

RE: Implications, Consequences, Postulations and Posits...

All those lines , for just two of import...

Probably the two most important questions we should ever ask, and the two we should ask most often.....

RE: Implications, Consequences, Postulations and Posits...

Rain weathers rock over time.......

RE: Implications, Consequences, Postulations and Posits...

Which reminds me of another Oscar Wilde quote.......

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

RE: Implications, Consequences, Postulations and Posits...

Hi NMP I ponder a lot of things.

RE: Implications, Consequences, Postulations and Posits...

Do you suggest, with this, that all we do is insignificant, and that all the implications and consequences of our actions are only important to an insignificant person in an insignificant time frame, that all our laughter and tears are but nothing in the grand scheme of things and we give them more importance than they deserve?

RE: Implications, Consequences, Postulations and Posits...

Oscar Wilde says it better than I can........


Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

RE: Implications, Consequences, Postulations and Posits...

I think that when this author described himself as daft, he was right.

To perpetuate the same idiocy is moronic, especially if he is expecting a different outcome.

From what I take out of this, he'd rather just be shooting at something than doing nothing, so he is doing something just for the sake of it, which is always a waste of time.

He is still in the same place repeating the same thing and will never be any further forward.

If we don't occasionally do something completely different, then we never learn anything and never move ahead. Sometimes moving ahead actually means sitting still and doing nothing...

RE: Why do some women intimidate men?

True. Sometimes, too, we don't want to change because change is difficult, even when people point it out or ignore us for our attitudes and responses. Assertivness courses are great. I failed a few of them in my time. Bet a lot of people would find that hard to believe.

RE: Why do some women intimidate men?

Clever lady. Hi Sommer

RE: Why do some women intimidate men?

I don't think anyone sees themselves in a negative light, unless someone makes a point of telling them to their face, and very few do that. It is all a matter of perception though.

RE: DOES ANYBODY WISH THEY COULD TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU HAD A TIME TRAVEL MACHINE

I wouldn't change a thing in any time...

RE: If you had a chance to change something in your personality, what would it be?

I wouldn't change a thing. Anyone not liking my personality doesn't really see me.