Posted by Phil on February 18, 2004, at 10:33:42
I'm sure many have heard this story but here goes.
In wintertime, a man walking through the woods comes upon a frozen snake. Being a man of compassion, he takes the snake home and puts it in front of the fireplace and leaves food for it in hopes the snake will be alive and hungry after thawing out.
Later, the man sees the snake has eaten but the poisonous snake crawls out from under the sofa and bites the man. As the man is dying he asks the snake how he could do that after he just saved the snake from dying.
The snake said, "I'm a snake, it's my nature."Let me paraphrase my only authority, Jesus Christ.
(The real one, not the religious rights)
If any of you, as my followers, go into a village to spread the good news and you are shunned or ridiculed, dust yourself off and continue your journey to spread the gospel.In other words, don't look back; don't let it get you down.
Almost simultaneously, on 2000, I was graciously thanked by an old babble friend for being of help when hope had all but gone. I come here and bob tries to explain what a troll is and PBC's me for trying to express anger(OH, MY GOD!). I said how I saw the sick anti-Semite and bob, for the umpteenth time, in the name of nobody arguing or breathing fresh air into the subject of evil tries to bury the subject and talks down to me as if I just hit town riding on a truckload of turnips.
If you want to talk, contact an expatriot, of which I am one.
If you think doctors are smart because they are doctors, let me tell you about my history. After 20 years and 5 pdocs and me asking if I might be bipolar to them all including my current one, my doc prescribed Zyprexa yesterday saying I might be bipolar.
Go with your gut here people but never blindly follow someone, especially if hundreds have begged for change here and were either given long vacations or left in utter frustration. Never say, but he tries, he tries. Try to stand up from your chair. You stood up, right? Silly question, maybe.
The only evidence of real trying is change that is obvious, real, and visible. You'll wait forever here for real and positive change. Dr. Bob when just offered help, is already subtlely saying he doesn't want it. (Don't want anyone to be burdened.)
If your gut tells you I'm wrong, it's none of my business what you think of me.
To my friends and enemies here over the past however many years, thank you.
___________________________________Pity me not because the light of day
At close of day no longer walks the sky;
Pity me not for beauties passed away
From field and thicket as the year goes by
Pity me not for the waning of the moon,
Nor that the ebbing tide goes out to sea,
Nor that a man's desire is hushed so soon,
And you no longer look with love on me.
This I have known always: Love is no more
Than the wide blossom which the wind assails,
Than the great tide that treads the shifting shore,
Strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales:
Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turnEdna St Vincent Millay
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