Joan of Arc

Reply to What I Think About Ya'll in Blogging JoeUser Forums

T-man, I can't tell if you're saying it was "fun" because it was ignorant, or if you just enjoyed reading it. I enjoyed reading it. So often we (people in general) have views of people, but we don't mirror back to them what we see. It is almost always helpful, and many times encouraging to see what others think of us. Sometimes it exposes that our masks are not so thick as we think, sometimes it exposes graciousness and kindness in us that

Reply to A Jaded Sense of Beauty in Misc JoeUser Forums

I didn't read this when you first posted it Trin, but it's really good. Really. T-man

Reply to What I Think About Ya'll in Blogging JoeUser Forums

That was fun reading. Thanks Trin. T-man

Reply to World Without Time in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Thanks XX. T-man

Reply to Intelligence isn't wisdom in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

or enabling quotes for poor unfortunates such as myself who have to use the archaic ""'s? Dan--I didn't read the all the responses here, so this may have been addressed, but if not, see my most recent article for the "secret" to yellow boxes. T-man

Reply to Living On The Road in Misc JoeUser Forums

"Of course, I'm never going to have children, I'm going to adopt.....teenagers." This sounds like a contradiction, but I think I know what you mean :) T-man

Reply to World Without Time in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Thanks Trinite, you're too kind. T-man

Reply to The Joy of a Father in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Thanks Trinitie. T-man

Reply to A Single Tear in Misc JoeUser Forums

"'My ultimate fear? Never being able to have true relationships with anyone. I don't know how to communicate, I don't know how to love unconditionally, and I don't know how to trust completely. "' Dear dear Trin, At the risk of repeating what others have said, you DO have true relationships with people (let's not get into the "is blogging real" issue here). If I thought that you only talked to people online, but were not able to relate in pe

Little Yellow Boxes in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Some of you are aware of my struggle to find significance through making little yellow boxes around the quoted material in my blog responses. Now I’m not sure if everybody knew how to do that, or just neglected to tell me, but I have the answer. Drum roll....... You just enter the articles through the forum, that’s it. Since finding thi

Reply to Living On The Road in Misc JoeUser Forums

An excellent post Trinite, it shows much insight into who you are becoming, and how you are getting there. It says a lot that you have a positive attitude in your life. I think the more natural direction for a person with those experiences is to be bitter. You show a lot of maturity and downright healthy thinking. I agree with imajinit, I think you'll be a great mother. T-man

Reply to World Without Time in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Time waits for no man T-Man--but you, my dear, are timeless. joa

The Joy of a Father in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

A couple nights ago, my four year old daughter (I have 6 kids from 4 to 20) asked if I wanted to watch her do a dance. She had one of her sisters put on a song for her, and she put on a little ballerina thingy over her pajamas. It was just the two of us in the family room while she danced for me, and the pride and the emotion, and the realization that all she wanted

World Without Time in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Time stops for no one. Time flies. Time crawled by. Time stood still. I was changing the sheets on our bed a couple days ago (which I have to say I very rarely do–my dear wife is the regular changer) when I was startled by how old our new mattress looked. I remember buying that mattress like it was yesterday. We sprung for a good one–wanted some

Reply to An Explanation for An Apathetic Generation in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

thanks Dan-- imaginit " let's hope that the moral degradation of our society hasn't managed to secure a strong enough stranglehold on us that attempts to escape it fail ..." let's do-- however, since as with any deterioration process, rot, rust or relational, irretrievable damage usually occurs--perhaps it would be wise to come in out of the rain while we still can and if we choose not to, lets not blame our off spring.

Reply to Is blogging real? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Inflammatory statement of the evening: My my, are you feeling a littleangry this evening and trying to stir up trouble? I think everybody lies about everything because no

Reply to God Cannot Be What He Is Believed To Be in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

If you were God and in contemplating Creation but knowing there would be untold suffering, would you go ahead and do it anyway? If I were God --quite frankly stevendedalus, it is honestly beyond the capacity of my imagination to entertain such a senerio. I am so aware of my own humanity and the frailty and imperfections that accompany my human condition that to imagine being Divinity seems inappropriate at best. H

Reply to Is blogging real? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

And while the people we got to know online were not the people that our IRL family and friends knew, those people were the REAL us....the people we had never felt the freedom to be with anyone else. This is the crux of one of my points, poetmom, who is to say what is "real". I have seen a deeper part o

Lessons From A Good Shepherd: Perseverance in Pets & Nature JoeUser Forums

I happen to be the proud owner of a beautiful long coat German shepherd dog. Yanna has taught me many wonderful lessons over the last 6 years. Lessons on life, love and the pursuit of happiness have all come out of this special relationship. Recently, we were outside working and Yanna was displaying one of her character defects quite boisterously. She is a

Reply to I think I am dying... in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

janders- I used to feel the same way,---I didn't even have a docotor-- and to my detriment. One year I ended up with pneumonia and was I ever sick!!!!! for months!!!!!!!!! After that I thought "I never want to be this sick again" and the only thing I could think of to do was to get one and see her when I was sick. Now that I look back, I realize how backward my thinking was. I was blaming the doctor for doing her job--like shooting t

Reply to An Explanation for An Apathetic Generation in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

" And, you say that people now have children when they think they're ready rather than letting them interupt life ." What I actually said was "Children have become a commodity. We have them when it’s convenient. We don’t let them interrupt our lives or careers " What I meant was not that we wait until we are ready but rather we no longer condider children as important enough to iterrupt our lives for . Your mom, though

Reply to Resisting Yet Embracing Change in Misc JoeUser Forums

I really enjoyed this article because I think you have articulated beautifully the ambivilance that many of us feel about going from one season of life to the next--especially that which launches us into "adulthood" I know lots of folks who have been in that season a long time and are still wondering what they will do when they "grow up" --including me sometimes. Something I have come to realize is that there is no "arrival" in life, but th

Reply to Is blogging real? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

SPM is the most open person I know. I suppose you'd have to explain to me what you mean by "open", but first you could explain to me why you were making the comment in the first place. Did you feel I was saying he wasn't open? Do you feel like we're going in circles? T-man

Reply to Really Radical Feminism in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

ha ha ha ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahahahh that is ssssssssssssssooooooo funny! joa and t-man

Reply to An Explanation for An Apathetic Generation in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

[i'll take that as a compliment jeremy I think mothers have always worked Sherye, full time with the kids and full time at home and full time on the farm and....................................................... thank you wisefawn