i am writing this first to explain that i took out the thread about a kokomo man dying. my reasons...
1. it was a thread to just mention a strange occurence. not about gun control.
2. the conversation had begun to degrade into another one of the wonderful threads about something sucky happening. i.e. gun control and america.
3. most importantly.... i am tired of the damn negative nature on here.
yes i know that is a bit of an oxymoron. but let me explain.
the world has had its share of problems over the past 6 billioin years. a huge comet, destruction of dinosaurs, the pre-cambrian explosion, birth of man, industrial age, world wars, global warming and the birth of the supermodel.
during this time we have had our bad share of things happen and many good things. i have enjoyed my fair share of controversial topics on here, from gun control, abortion, bush (not the female anatomy, although i would be fine with this too) hehe. lately many people have been discussing problems they are seeing on here and more than usual i might add.... this is where i might come off sounding a bit pissed so bear with me.
chill the hell out....for crying out loud.... i am tired of coming on here and seeing people talking about the travesties of the world and explaining \"if only\" or its \"so and so\'s\" fault. well get off the high horse and get in there and do something about it and stop complainging. a wise man once told me, \"if you cant say anything nice then dont say anything at all.\" that was my grandpa. he also was a firm believer that if you see a problem and all you are going to do is talk about it and not try to be proactive then stop talkign about things and keep your opinions to yourselves and let others try and do something.
what happened to us having some fun on this site? discussing silly things, (which i admit is still on here) what happened to us doing things for the world, like the hurricane relieft project which i commend you gentlemen and ladies for doing a few years ago.
what happened to people being happy. seriously, this world has got itself into a huge and i mean HUGE mess of late and i dont know about you but i feel the whole world tensing up. i for one am tired of it, i have been seriously thinking about stopping going on these forums as a whole of late due to the feeling of so many people being so damn negative about everything. and this leads to my challenge to you all, lets bring some happy on in, lets do something proactive... help out others, go out and help an old lady or man cross the street, like dragonsreach....lord knows he could use a hand. lol.... seriously though go out make the world better, pay it forward, do something and put it on here. not what you have done in the past, what you have done today or whenever you read this.
for example i will start this out: my neighbor owns an old painted lady victorian home that has literally 5,000 square feet, and has suffered storm damage, today i got myself and three other neighbors over there and we fixed up most of the storm damage, and are planning on finishing the rest tommorrow. we just showed up and told her we werent taking no for an answer. do this and help, go to a soup kitchen, give someone a hand, but for the love of pete, stop complaining so much and listening to the sound of your voice as you wax all intellectual and try to sound high and mighty when all you need to do is do something instead of just saying something.
if i have offended anyone, i am sorry...but as i have said i am done with this nonsense of complaing about stuff and just move on.... if you want to change gun control, then write your local politician, if you want to change abortion laws then do something about it, but do something nice along the way and maybe this old world will stop getting us all down and we will be able to overcome things in the end. but we cant do it if we dont start somewhere. so lets get off our arses and do soemthing.
*steps off soapbox*
1. it was a thread to just mention a strange occurence. not about gun control.
2. the conversation had begun to degrade into another one of the wonderful threads about something sucky happening. i.e. gun control and america.
3. most importantly.... i am tired of the damn negative nature on here.
yes i know that is a bit of an oxymoron. but let me explain.
the world has had its share of problems over the past 6 billioin years. a huge comet, destruction of dinosaurs, the pre-cambrian explosion, birth of man, industrial age, world wars, global warming and the birth of the supermodel.
during this time we have had our bad share of things happen and many good things. i have enjoyed my fair share of controversial topics on here, from gun control, abortion, bush (not the female anatomy, although i would be fine with this too) hehe. lately many people have been discussing problems they are seeing on here and more than usual i might add.... this is where i might come off sounding a bit pissed so bear with me.
chill the hell out....for crying out loud.... i am tired of coming on here and seeing people talking about the travesties of the world and explaining \"if only\" or its \"so and so\'s\" fault. well get off the high horse and get in there and do something about it and stop complainging. a wise man once told me, \"if you cant say anything nice then dont say anything at all.\" that was my grandpa. he also was a firm believer that if you see a problem and all you are going to do is talk about it and not try to be proactive then stop talkign about things and keep your opinions to yourselves and let others try and do something.
what happened to us having some fun on this site? discussing silly things, (which i admit is still on here) what happened to us doing things for the world, like the hurricane relieft project which i commend you gentlemen and ladies for doing a few years ago.
what happened to people being happy. seriously, this world has got itself into a huge and i mean HUGE mess of late and i dont know about you but i feel the whole world tensing up. i for one am tired of it, i have been seriously thinking about stopping going on these forums as a whole of late due to the feeling of so many people being so damn negative about everything. and this leads to my challenge to you all, lets bring some happy on in, lets do something proactive... help out others, go out and help an old lady or man cross the street, like dragonsreach....lord knows he could use a hand. lol.... seriously though go out make the world better, pay it forward, do something and put it on here. not what you have done in the past, what you have done today or whenever you read this.
for example i will start this out: my neighbor owns an old painted lady victorian home that has literally 5,000 square feet, and has suffered storm damage, today i got myself and three other neighbors over there and we fixed up most of the storm damage, and are planning on finishing the rest tommorrow. we just showed up and told her we werent taking no for an answer. do this and help, go to a soup kitchen, give someone a hand, but for the love of pete, stop complaining so much and listening to the sound of your voice as you wax all intellectual and try to sound high and mighty when all you need to do is do something instead of just saying something.
if i have offended anyone, i am sorry...but as i have said i am done with this nonsense of complaing about stuff and just move on.... if you want to change gun control, then write your local politician, if you want to change abortion laws then do something about it, but do something nice along the way and maybe this old world will stop getting us all down and we will be able to overcome things in the end. but we cant do it if we dont start somewhere. so lets get off our arses and do soemthing.
*steps off soapbox*
And that I didn\'t get to see Evil Dave\'s come-back to my insult 
