Quo Vado? - Comments

E:) comments on The Word Means Something Damn It!

Yeah. "Friendship" and the definition shades inherently surrounding it are a bitch. That is all.

Lucy comments on The Word Means Something Damn It!

You are not alone in this. There are still those of us out there for whom friend evokes powerful images of loyalty and companionship and love. We may not give our friendship easily or freely, but when we do, we are friends forever.

And I think that's a good thing.

Tifyfostaft comments on Having Something to Say

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JPB comments on The Word Means Something Damn It!

Words are a problem. Our language is full of them, we use them all the time, they have definitions, but the definitions never really capture everything they mean to us. Ironically, words are not very good at defining other words.

So you say "friend" and it means something to you, but it means something else to someone else. This isn't so bad when you say "cup" and I'm thinking of a coffee mug while you're thinking of a small glass. We can generalize and figure each other out. But when you say "friend" and we don't mean the same thing, it's deeper than that. You are using the word to describe an emotional relationship.

Like any word describing an internal state ("love," "sadness," "content"), words just aren't enough.

Melissa comments on The Word Means Something Damn It!

This "friend" business haunts me all the time.

I think being midwestern also has something to do with it.

Also- you are my friend and I am yours. I'm just re-iterating the OBVIOUS.

E:) comments on A Definition of Sorts

See, this is exactly why I think we both "grew" into be introverts. We basically had to be. No kids to play with in "da hood," and the units were always working like hell and too tired to pay attention to us. I make it a point to not bring my home work with me as much as possible, because I HATED the dinner experience.

So, I think you feel invisible and not heard because especially after hatching, and medical issues, you were likely pushed aside. But, even after that sorat stabilized, we were still largely on our own, no?

kmsqrd comments on People Too...

You're right! I just couldn't fit those into pithy questions. :)

Melissa comments on People Too...

One other important thing to realize about healthcare to "non citizens" is that SOMETIMES it is actually investing in our own national health. If people get massive amounts of tuberculosis or other preventable contagious diseases they can easily spread them to us.

The other important thing to realize about non-citizens is that even illegally, they support our economy by 1) doing cheap dirty labor that we don't want and 2) using our infrastructure and paying taxes. They buy groceries, goods, services, ride transportation, and put money INTO our communities and generally never receive public services, social security, retirement, healthcare etc FROM IT. So it's a one way giving street from them to us. We seem to forget this and use them as a scapegoat for all our social problems that don't stem from them.

The end.
xx

kmsqrd comments on People Too...

Greed = hoarding of money, things, power, etc.

Greed is then a form of US (those with money, things, power) verses THEM (those with substantially less money, things, power).

And yes, I skipped pep sessions. They never bothered to watch the door between B and C halls which the fire marshal wouldn't let them chain. Most of the time I just walked home. Or 'borrowed' Linc's key to the room behind the elevator.

E:) comments on People Too...

Hmmmm...pay not attention to my Yankee-hating. I think some US vs THEM is good, but clearly in this country, things have gotten a bit out of control. I still think it goes back more to greed, but this may be a symptom of the larger problem you are discussing.

Side note: You skipped out on prep sessions? Lucky stiff. Hated those stupid things.