hephzibah wrote:mesquite wrote:Momma Angel wrote:echi,
Well, I for one believe America is in moral decline and quite honestly cannot understand how someone would think we aren't.
Mass murders, school shootings, paedophiles, serial killers, etc. Kids killing their parents. Everyone wanting to do what they want to do. The, "it's right for me" mentality is destroying this world IMO.
It looks like MA is spouting the same old sky is falling scenerio with once again no stats to back it up. She makes it seem as though greed, mass murders and paedophiles are a new phenomonen.
What is worth noting though is that 50 years ago a large portion of the U.S. was segregated. 50 years before that, women were thought too stupid to be allowed to vote. 50 years before that, blacks were bought and sold and treated like cattle.
Once again there's a vulture circling overhead, looking for some easy prey...
I guess they saw the jackal lurking in the bushes...
hmmm...
Perfect prose, I must say.
Me, gay? Hail no.
Seriously, I was having breakfast in a restaurant with a male friend the other morning. As we got up to leave, I said I have make a rest room stop. He said he did too. As we two men walked toward the restroom, he asked me in earshot of a bunch of elderly people, "Have you seen Brokeback Mountain?" My answer was a macho-intoned "Hail no."
G'night again.
PoetSeductress wrote:hephzibah wrote:Me too echi. There was a certain innocence about that time of our lives. I miss it too sometimes.
Hephzibah, I refuse to lose my inner innocence. Even though I've been around quite a bit, I've never lost the inner "me". I made a promise to myself early on, that I would never allow it to happen, no matter how much hardship and heartache happened. It was a CONSCIOUS, determined decision.
I have to admit there were times that the world almost zapped it down. It was hanging by a very worn and thin thread. But at what seemed to be at my lowest point, I pulled myself up, mustered all the inner strenth I could, and carefully wove that string with other strings, until I had a strong cloth of inner support, again. It took about 10 years to do it, and I'm almost back as my true self, again. Give me about 4-6 more months, and I will be.
I refuse to let negativity steal my soul.
I'm watching my threads snap...
one...
by...
one...
Wondering exactly where I'm going to fall to. I've already been to hell a few times in my life. I still have some of the scars to prove it. I'm not thrilled about the concept of going back to be honest... however some days I feel powerless to do anything but watch what I was disappear into the unknown...
).
