RainbowSlider Forum Posts (7,174)

RE: Being friends with a mental patient...

RE: new guy

Hi, new guy.

RE: Good Places To Meet Other Singles

Walmart Super Centers. God, they all can't be married. There is just too many of them for them all to be married.

RE: Hi, from Catalina Island

Happy New Year, Greg.

Roy

RE: A blonde gets even

Would you say that you are even now?

RE: A blonde gets even

Oh, wow. Artificial intelligence. Maybe there is something to robotics.

RE: Marriage!!!

Hey, great to see it is still working out. Success stories are good for the CS morale. Thanks for all the good work that you have been doing in the trenches. It doesn't hurt to hear that it can work out if you apply yourself.

Roy

RE: Good Places To Meet Other Singles

I think restaurants are good places to meet people. James John Autobahn did some very good paintings of birds while watching them in their natural setting. I think restaurants are a natural setting for people. Parks are another natural setting for people. Playgrounds by a park is like a double natural setting if they have kids. Sometimes it is nice just to be a spectator and just take it all in.

RE: Understanding

Your poetry has a lot of meaning to it.

RE: Giving

Yeah. It can make one feel vulnerable.

Mixed feelings and emotions.

No wonder they call it the institution of marriage, geez.

Mixed feelings and emotions.

That does help and thank you. I got institutionalized in treatment. After I had went through the process they told me to move on. I got institutionalized in marriage and felt the effects in the divorce. I got institutionalized in another marriage and felt that effect in the death. It is the wanting to hold on to something even though it is no longer valid to one. An emotional separation in all three cases. One does has to bring one's self back to the state of being single without all the mixed emotions. "One mind that thinks and mind that feels and both of them based on thought." That really says a lot. Thanks for sharing that. "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion". I have felt that in writing poetry. On the last part I thought that was just because I am Aquarian but I can see where it can go deeper than that. Sorting it out really does help.

RE: Cloned Food vs Stem Cell research

That makes sense. A simple solution to a simple problem.

Mixed feelings and emotions.

Yes. Totally different issues can be part of the mixed part. I am sure there are many going through that "moving on" stage. "Moving on" can be one separating one's self from baggage whether it is death, divorce or an old view compared to a new view of how one sees themself.

RE: Cloned Food vs Stem Cell research

Seeing the movie, "Total Recall" I thought was interesting. The ingrams could be transferred. The ingrams being the individuality of a person transferred into a cloned body. The survival instinct being able to survive after the death of the first body to that of one's clone.

Mixed feelings and emotions.

Sometimes a person can be recovering from so much sludge that it can feel like a sludgeball.

Mixed feelings and emotions.

One thing that helped me in the griefshare meetings was our leader of the group and the forums at the same time. The lady told me that most men get into relationship faster before they are actually ready. She told me that the men fare worse in recovery because they don't take the time to heal. Like so many women on the forums have told me and some men, too, there is this wanting to replace what was taken away. I think Joanie alluded to that. The lady at the griefshare told me that the meeting was to help you deal with th grief and not a dating place. I have found that people who have had been single longer whether through divorce or death seem to make wiser decisions and less likely to get into a relationship that may not be best for them because because they are taking the time to really think things out and not let their heart rule their mind.

Mixed feelings and emotions.

I have found that to be true. Thanks friends. This is really helping to get it clear in my head.

Mixed feelings and emotions.

I agree with you 100% because I remarried an ex. When my deceased past I considered visiting my ex. I am starting to find out who I really am thanks to the input of many on the forums. Part of the help is understanding the misconception of the "better half". The forums has helped me to understand what some people might consider the "other half" is actually the "other whole". Being single to me means being one.

RE: Do you think nuclear war could happen in our life time.

The Kamakazee or Terrorist is a threat because his beliefs can be stronger than his own survival instinct. When one imagines that a whole country can be a terrorist with the beliefs meaning more important than the survival instinct global destruction can be a probability. When the emotions are higher than the intellect trouble can happen. "I" over "E".

Mixed feelings and emotions.

I am sure that it can be according to how close one felt to a "loved one". When my dad passed I was in shock but I accepted the passing. But when my spouse passed I really didn't want to accept it. I had a real love/hate experience with my dad. Part of me felt relief when he passed and part of me felt guilt that I felt that relief.

Mixed feelings and emotions.

I have been through the divorce process and the widowing (sp?) process and the widowing process seemed more acute but similiar.

Mixed feelings and emotions.

During the grief stage I became acute awarely aware that one can have many feelings and emotions at one time. It became important to be able to identify all these mixed feelings and emotions so that I could deal with them independently. Otherwise to me it felt like one big sludge ball. One lady that went to the griefshare meetings I went to said it felt similiar to PMS. I remember feeling something similiar when I quit using mind altering chemicals. Have your ever felt like this or had to deal with this?

RE: Each Day Brings A Chance To Do Better

Great thoughtful feeling in your poem and the flow was wonderful.

RE: have you ever felt this way

I have done that. They say you can never truly go back home. Could be either you change or the place changes.

RE: Newbie female 55 looking for long term

Have fun Minky.

RE: to night is my last night on cs

How about fishing for peace? I don't think that one has been tried, yet, lol.

RE: I can still dream.....

Heres to looking at you, kid. Humphrey Bogart

RE: daily wisdom series

Politics make strange bedfellows but if you after some strange it should not be a problem.

RE: Why do some people build you up just to tear you down?

They may have heard the song, "Build Me Up Buttercup" by the Foundations.