lessons learned

by John Doe 32 Replies latest jw friends

  • keyser soze
    keyser soze

    The lesson I learned is that people are sometimes too emotionally invested in a discussion board.

  • John Doe
    John Doe
    The lesson I learned is that people are sometimes too emotionally invested in a discussion board.

    Touche.

  • beksbks
    beksbks

    What do you mean by that Keyser?

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    I can post lyrics, also.

    How Long?

    How long has this been goin' on
    How long has this been goin' on

    Well, if friends with their fancy persuasion
    Don't admit that it's part of a scheme
    But I can't help but have my suspicions
    'Cause I ain't quite as dumb as I seem

    Bek, you have an urgent pm!

    Sylvia

  • beksbks
    beksbks

    It's not showing up Syl

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Hmmm ...

    Crazy board!

    Sylvia

  • mrsjones5
    mrsjones5

    We're caught in a trap...

    Why can't you see
    What you're doing to me
    When you don't believe a word I say?

    We can't go on together
    With suspicious minds
    And we can't build our dreams
    On suspicious minds

    So, if an old friend I know
    Drops by to say hello
    Would I still see suspicion in your eyes?

    "But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

    The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

    We cannot walk alone."

  • Spike Tassel
    Spike Tassel

    wonderful words, jonesy, are they all your own?, or have you borrowed them from others? it is good to give credit, where credit is due, even as it is

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Excerpt from Tom Sawyer, chapter 8:

    TOM dodged hither and thither through lanes until he was well out of the track of returning scholars, and then fell into a moody jog. He crossed a small "branch" two or three times, because of a prevailing juvenile superstition that to cross water baffled pursuit. Half an hour later he was disappearing behind the Douglas mansion on the summit of Cardiff Hill, and the school-house was hardly distinguishable away off in the valley behind him. He entered a dense wood, picked his pathless way to the centre of it, and sat down on a mossy spot under a spreading oak. There was not even a zephyr stirring; the dead noonday heat had even stilled the songs of the birds; nature lay in a trance that was broken by no sound but the occasional far-off hammering of a woodpecker, and this seemed to render the pervading silence and sense of loneliness the more profound. The boy's soul was steeped in melancholy; his feelings were in happy accord with his surroundings. He sat long with his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands, meditating... What had he done? Nothing. He had meant the best in the world, and been treated like a dog -- like a very dog.

    I am sorry, John Doe.

    Can we be friends again?

    It's not worth logging on to JWN if you and I can't exchange insults!

    I promise I won't even say anything about your ugly green bird, Squiggy.

    Please?

    Sylvia

  • Spike Tassel
    Spike Tassel

    so, even birds are racist about other birds?

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