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Can you imagine what it must feel like . . .

Can you imagine what it must feel like . . .

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. . . to be a gay man approaching 66, and to be hounded, scolded, and vilified by a vicious younger activist?


@Arkturos said
. . . to be a gay man approaching 66, and to be hounded, scolded, and vilified by a vicious younger activist?
No, no I cant


@Arkturos said
. . . to be a gay man approaching 66, and to be hounded, scolded, and vilified by a vicious younger activist?
Since this doesn't happen, no, I can't imagine it.


@Suzianne said
Since this doesn't happen, no, I can't imagine it.
I hope Ghost has had a private word with you about obsessive replying.


@Arkturos said
I hope Ghost has had a private word with you about obsessive replying.
Like you're doing now?

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@Suzianne said
Like you're doing now?
Well, not many people come to this forum, so I guess in a way I am also having a private word about that with you, yes.


@Mott-The-Hoople said
No, no I cant
It has been difficult and incomprehensible, I tell you what.


@Suzianne said
Like you're doing now?
Given our relatively small community here, I'll just write this publicly:

Maybe I'm not the only one who has noticed that you generally reply with short, sarcastic quips of a few words.

Maybe you see this as a kind of efficiency, but I and others might see this as a kind of insufficiency.

Where I'm heading is: Please don't let alcohol (and surprising manners!) get in the way of where you want to go, how you want to help, and how you want to cultivate yourself.


@Arkturos said
It has been difficult and incomprehensible, I tell you what.
The future is more important than the past. If you cannot evolve past your trauma, it has you in a chokehold where recovery is too rare. To fulfill your destiny, you must rise above it. You have to decide the future you want. Don't dream it, be it.


@Arkturos said
I hope Ghost has had a private word with you about obsessive replying.
Do you think Ghost could change what she had to say???

If you do you don't know her at all.

-VR


@Arkturos said
Well, not many people come to this forum, so I guess in a way I am also having a private word about that with you, yes.
A private word would be in a P.M., not the Public forum. 😉

-VR


@Arkturos said
Given our relatively small community here, I'll just write this publicly:

Maybe I'm not the only one who has noticed that you generally reply with short, sarcastic quips of a few words.

Maybe you see this as a kind of efficiency, but I and others might see this as a kind of insufficiency.

Where I'm heading is: Please don't let alcohol (and surprising manners!) get in the way of where you want to go, how you want to help, and how you want to cultivate yourself.
I think it is hilarious you of all people trying to correct Suzi!!! 😛 😉

-VR


@Suzianne said
The future is more important than the past. If you cannot evolve past your trauma, it has you in a chokehold where recovery is too rare. To fulfill your destiny, you must rise above it. You have to decide the future you want. Don't dream it, be it.
Is that from the trailer for "Mortal Kombat II" ?

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@Very-Rusty said
I think it is hilarious you of all people trying to correct Suzi!!! 😛 😉

-VR
"Uncle", are you trying to say that I am incorrigible, and that my evolution has looked more like a devolution? 🤔

And on a relevant side-topic, haven't you often said that your past behavio(u)r was much worse than mine ever was? In that case, why don't you let me live my own life and find my own level? 😉

(especially as people seem to allow Suzi and some of the denizens of Debates quite a large amount of leeway)

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@Very-Rusty said
Do you think Ghost could change what she had to say???

If you do you don't know her at all.

-VR
She does seem to be a hardy sprout, resistant to external influences.

One observation I could make is that she loves to defend various groups of people in the abstract*, but one-on-one she likes to attack.
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* which comes off as rather superior, as if other people cannot stand up for themselves and need her unrequested paladinism.