jleiwig
Member
I've decided that I'm going to stop posting on this forum, so this will be my last post.
I may still read posts, but I'm pretty sure I'm done posting.
My reasoning is simple really:
People around here have simply become too emotionally stupid.
We shouldn't have to change our vocabulary because some find it offensive. Retarded, midget, fat, thin, tall, guys, dork, dude. Those are all in the dictionary, and they work fine as descriptors. I shouldn't have to make myself "politically correct" to please someone else. Two of the above words, and probably some would say three or more of them are very accurate descriptions of me, and I'm fine with "being labeled" with them. I know who and what I am, and I am no way defined or limited by any label anyone can put on me.
We shouldn't worry about another's choices because it is their choice and not yours or mine. Sometimes people need to make mistakes to learn. We're not any one of us perfect, or so the bible tells me.
Not everyone needs to be picked for the team, and not everyone on the team needs to play. Some people are better or more talented at certain things than others. It's ok. Deal with it. Life will go on.
Watching the devestation in Haiti just makes me wonder in a life and times like this, why do people fixate on the petty little crap that at the end of the day, or the end of your life for that matter, doesn't matter?
Be who you know you are. Don't hide behind a fad, a label, a religion, or whatever your using as your shield to protect you from the big bad world out there.
I just checked my birth certificate. No where on it does it say that life is fair. It doesn't say that life comes with getting your way all the time either. Entitlement is not a birthright.
Nope, not on the constitution either. The Magna Carta maybe? Nope..not there either. Well then certainly the bible...right? Ephesians maybe? Nope. Job? Nope. New Testament? Nope Old Testament? Nope.
The fact of the matter is that life is what you make of it. If you choose to live in fear of labels or stigmas or whatever issue you have with life, then you will never really live.
Thanks for the fun times GUYS, but it's time to bow out. I hope I've helped a little bit, and if not at least provoked some to actually think for themselves every once in a while. I've always called a spade a spade (oops...sorry..insensitive old me again not being PC. I just insulted a whole suit of cards), and if you don't like me that's fine too.
I may still read posts, but I'm pretty sure I'm done posting.
My reasoning is simple really:
People around here have simply become too emotionally stupid.
We shouldn't have to change our vocabulary because some find it offensive. Retarded, midget, fat, thin, tall, guys, dork, dude. Those are all in the dictionary, and they work fine as descriptors. I shouldn't have to make myself "politically correct" to please someone else. Two of the above words, and probably some would say three or more of them are very accurate descriptions of me, and I'm fine with "being labeled" with them. I know who and what I am, and I am no way defined or limited by any label anyone can put on me.
We shouldn't worry about another's choices because it is their choice and not yours or mine. Sometimes people need to make mistakes to learn. We're not any one of us perfect, or so the bible tells me.
Not everyone needs to be picked for the team, and not everyone on the team needs to play. Some people are better or more talented at certain things than others. It's ok. Deal with it. Life will go on.
Watching the devestation in Haiti just makes me wonder in a life and times like this, why do people fixate on the petty little crap that at the end of the day, or the end of your life for that matter, doesn't matter?
Be who you know you are. Don't hide behind a fad, a label, a religion, or whatever your using as your shield to protect you from the big bad world out there.
I just checked my birth certificate. No where on it does it say that life is fair. It doesn't say that life comes with getting your way all the time either. Entitlement is not a birthright.
Nope, not on the constitution either. The Magna Carta maybe? Nope..not there either. Well then certainly the bible...right? Ephesians maybe? Nope. Job? Nope. New Testament? Nope Old Testament? Nope.
The fact of the matter is that life is what you make of it. If you choose to live in fear of labels or stigmas or whatever issue you have with life, then you will never really live.
Thanks for the fun times GUYS, but it's time to bow out. I hope I've helped a little bit, and if not at least provoked some to actually think for themselves every once in a while. I've always called a spade a spade (oops...sorry..insensitive old me again not being PC. I just insulted a whole suit of cards), and if you don't like me that's fine too.