Lizzy

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I agree with all you wrote. "Seems the topic has a life of its own." Sometimes when someone can't defend and prove what they stated they move the topic to one they believe they can debate better. I believe that is what has happened here.

"Was vpw a good man?" No he was not a good man. What he did was evil. Making excuses for him is wrong and evil. He knew better. He knew right from wrong. Shame on you for making excuses for him. BTW you could give me a million examples of evil and that still will not make me think vpw less evil.

You made a difference in more lives than you will ever know. Thank you Paw.

LOL

I am sorry to hear this. He was the the first one to contact me when I was new here. RumRunner was always kind to me and helpful. My condolences to those who loved him.

Funny!

No not a spoof. :) http://www.starbucksstore.com/

Hi Caleb! I want to welcome you. I am Lizzy and I mostly read here. It is an interesting place. I learn a lot here by reading. I laugh too. There are intelligent people here with great sense of humor. You don't seem to me to be the type that would quit posting here just because someone disagreed with you or misunderstood you. I don't think "oversensitive" would describe you. I like that you encourage debate. Maybe it is those that disagree with you that you want to hear the most? Nothing wrong with that. How can we learn if we always agree? You said you wanted discussion and you got it! I look forward to reading what you have to say.

This is good the main site will not close. Maybe you need a holiday from all of this for a short time? Have the forums read only for a week , three weeks , six weeks or whatever is best for you. Have a date posted when the forums will be open to post in again. A short break might actually be good for everyone? Maybe you can make a final decision what is to be done after the short break? No matter what pawtucket do what is best for you.

"The Helper" was my highest score . My second highest "The Generalist " and then "the Peacemaker". I don't disagree with this :)

Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday!

Bumpy/grumpy is your friend? He is real? You have talked to him? You really know him? I thought he was a made up character. Really I did. I thought he was created by a Troll. A manipulative troll. I hardly ever post here. I read a lot though I don't read everything. So I am sure it is me that should mind my own business. I don't even know why I posted today. To me it seemed as though you are being used by a manipulative troll. I don't even know why I cared about such things earlier today. I am going back to being just a reader.

Why is this any of your business? If Bumpy needs answers why is he using you to get them? He doesn't know how to contact Paw? I think he does. I think he is using you to do what he likes. What do you think?

yes!

Thank you, Paw.

Pond thank you. And I want to thank rhino and OKLAHOMA CITY WOW 78 too. I am learning so much!

I am a newbie. Not real new I have been here almost a year. I mostly read. I am so grateful that there is a GreaseSpot Cafe. I won't go into details but I will say that reading here has helped so very much. I like the people here. The ones I agree with and even the ones I don't. Funny some of you are. I didn't expect to laugh so much when I first found here. :) Someone you don't think you know you may or they may know someone you do know or once knew. It is a small world.

Bumpy, Are the replies what you expected? What were your expectations when you wrote this?

Happy Birthday!

Living With the Passive-Aggressive Man By Scott Wetzler a snippet Under certain conditions, passive-aggression can be a healthy, highly adaptive response. Call it subtlety, tact, humor, restraint, altruism or even courage it is also passive-aggression. Humor or diplomacy, for example, can defuse a highly volatile situation and prevent the dropping of bombs, real or metaphorical. More dramatic cases of passive-aggression are the "nonviolent" protests led by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. For anyone who is oppressed, truly deprived of power and with no other means of resistance, nonviolent protest is one way to get feelings and demands known: the lone Chinese student stalwartly defying a tank moving on him in Tiananmen Square is now a universal symbol of such defiance. To assert oneself, without showing inflammatory anger, is, in this case, healthy. There is a clear distinction between healthy and neurotically played-out passive-aggression. It's the difference between tact and avoidance, humor and obnoxiousness, civil disobedience and plain obstructionism. You know it when you see it in action. A healthy person uses passive-aggression to help him achieve his goals. Neurotic passive-aggression clouds issues and gets you nowhere. To some degree, passive-aggression describes everyone, normal as well as dysfunctional men and women. Its universality may be compared to a commonly understood feeling like anxiety. It may be an unpleasant emotion, but anxiety serves a psychological function necessary for survival: it signals us to take action when faced with impending danger, motivating us, hopefully, to perform at our best to get us out of the scrape and to a better state.... http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?...4304&agid=2

Thank you!

No Look what happens when we do.

Yes, this is true as do Catholic, Baptists, and all Protestants. I wonder why that is?