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Originally Posted by floydpink
Kegan,
Distance sometimes makes the heart grow fonder, but it never works in a relationship.
Move on.
PS. I'm so much cooler online.
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Naturally you are cooler online for Pete's sake lol; Florida's hotter than the place RevSmoke talks about
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Originally Posted by RevSmoke
Keegan,
I appreciate your laudable goals. You want advice? Get out and meet someone. Yeah, it is risky. Yes, rejection hurts. it is so much easier to hide behind a keyboard.
Yes, there are those who have made it work.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but, I gotta ask. In regard to dating, what are you hiding while behind your keyboard? What is she hiding behind her keyboard?
As for you statistics about suicide and those who clean up the mess, that's malarky.
Get off the keyboard and get out and meet some people.
God's blessings to you.
Peace of the Lord be with you.
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Reverend, all I know is I read them somewhere, or maybe learned them in school. Info has changed through the years I know; I'm just quoting what I recall.
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Originally Posted by kzm007
I'll have to second Rock's agreement; I understand what you're both trying to tell me, and I can use it, but at the moment, I can't change any possible paradigm without the doctor using the scalpel and easing that pain first.
A man wouldn't ride a canyon on a dying horse, looking for greener pastures (well, today he might, with animal rights) he would put the fellow down and get a new horse. And hopefully that's what this little dissection will do is to re-route some trails so travel's a little smoother when I sober up and find the keys to my double-parked white Arabian.
My problem is not that I'm too trusting - I didn't like a group of people one time, but I acted like they did and blended in - my problem is that my heart's too big and too soft for my own good. When I become a hard-hearted bastage with a heart the size of a pebble like the wise FOGs here  then I'll be better suited to do what I set out to do. |
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Originally Posted by icehog3
I think everyone here has been pretty supportive, Kegan, and I hope that is just the pain talking and that you really don't think that the FOGs are callous just because some may have more life experience than you do.
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Sir, I meant that solely as a joke; I basically just mean that those with life experience have indeed weathered storms of life, and they have learned to build their castles on a bed of rock instead of on the sand - some indeed are castles themselves.
(Luke 6:47 - 49; Matthew 7:twenty-four - 27)
I suppose I could break it down if religion were my course of action;
"Let thy heart be not solely chiseled of stone, nor constructed as a child's castle of sand." Both of these items, rock and sand, can be seen as artistic elements that can help convey the God-given beauty of life through their proper usage, be it a sand castle or a marble/stone statue.
In secular terms, put grains sand on one end of a brass balance scale, and rocks on the other. When you have a perfect balance, you should feel better and all will be well.
Callouses are a good thing, shows determination and being thick-skinned and all, but people
do need to be open as well, I understand this. And again, no, I meant no harm in my words; I use the word callous as 'hard,' not in a negative sense of the term.
-shrugs- I don't know, just thought it worked
and again, no harm intended in my words
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