Hear, Hear! Don't dial 911 if someone breaks in. Just 357.

I think they already invented that lamp in the 60's or 70's.

The fact that I can balance a sense of not putting up with crap and being quite personable.

Oh, no! I've been almost all over the country, adn there are rednecks everywhere. You don't have to be from the "Civil War South" to be one. We are everywhere!

I sometimes dream of a relationship in which he and I go out to do fun and interesting stuff, you know, real, old-fashioned dating. (Bars don't count. You don't have to be dating anyone to watch people get stupid-drunk, or to get that way yourself.) But I've dreamt this for so long without seeing it as reality, I guess that I have started perceiving it as a delusional pipe dream.

I think longhairbiker has everyone beat.

Understood. Yeah, venting is good. True friends can vent about me and they will still be there when the chips are down. And , usually, if there is something that I really need to know about myself, a true friend will discuss it with me, tactfully and with good intentions, after he or she vents. I just hope that I will always have the good grace to know how to accept constructive critisism.

It seems like when you get tired of it, you may not be in love anymore. My problem is, how to break it off without hurting him when it becomes obvious that we're not really as compatible as we originally thought.

Gee, thanks. By then, I may not want anyone to see my wrinkly parts.

I recently read a series of books inwhich there was a magical object that, when used, showed only the truth. About everything, including the user. It could drive a person insane if they had so many delusions about themselves and the world around them that they couldn't handle the truth. I think that friends, both real and fake, can be like that object. Sometimes the truth hurts. I don't think I would want to know what they think. If they are real friends, they will last. If they are fake friends, you will find out without listening in on their back-stabbing.

I'm talking with people on two different sites. And more than one in each. One guy started off with what nearly sounded like a marriage proposal.

In theory, age is nothing but a number. However, a young friend of mine recently made a joke about wrinkly (private) body parts when a man about 65-70 was flirting with me at work. It painted pictures in my mind that weren't very pleasant.

It helps to look for someone who lives close to me, within 100 miles, but that's not neccessary. Mostly, I want honesty. I think I'm looking for someone to date (logically), but lately I've started feeling like an intimate encounter would be fun, too. In any case, someone who won't take an "ownership" attitude toward me and the relationship is highly important.

Hello and welcome,Kedge.

Howdy, all. I've been with mingle2 for a while, but I have only just started coming into the community part of the site. If I pick up an old thread and persue it, then I just forgot to look at the date when it was last discussed. Please forgive my lacking observation skills.

OK. Thanks for the reading suggestions. I'll look it all up.

Rabbit Medicine

OK, I know that this is an old thread, but I dohave a comment, if anyone is interested. I have an animal deck that is based on (broadly and loosely) Native American views of the animals of North America. (It is a divination-type deck, but NOT a Tarot deck, as it doesn't have the Major and Minor Arcana, and the suits.) The Rabbit card in this deck, when reversed, is likened to rabbit saying something like," Hawk, go away." Even if Hawk isn't there. Rabbit then says," Hawk, leave me alone," a bit louder. This goes on, louder each time, until Hawk comes along and makes Rabbit his lunch. Conversely, in the upright position, the Rabbit card represents a sense of humor. Maybe, like Rabbit calling bad things to him, when we are negative in our views that's what we get back. But when we view our world, and the universe, with positivity and humor, that is what we get back.

You have read "The Secret" haven't you? I only just heard about it a couple of weeks ago, but I plan to get it.