Posted by Happyflower on April 21, 2007, at 7:54:16
In reply to ((((((Happyflower)))))), posted by LlurpsieNoodle on April 20, 2007, at 22:25:33
> I'm so sorry about what has happened. I know there's nothing *I* can do to make things better for you.
Actually *you* have helped by responding to me in support, thank you.
> Will you stay, though? I like you lots and I would miss you so much if you left.I just don't know if I can stay in a place that allows animals abuse jokes. I speak out against it, and I become an *ss ,the problem, instead of what I am speaking out against in the first place. Kinda like the saying "don't kill the messenger".
Yeah, but I am okay, in fact maybe staying here when I am fine, may be causing me more harm than what is good. Maybe I need to put my energies into some real causes in the real world, where my efforts would be appreciated. Maybe staying here, keeps me stuck, because I am unable to really help anyone or to help make this site better because the threat of change(even for the better), creates too much resistance. Well it is becoming a waste of my time to persue. I care about babble very much, but I think I am not needed here. I think "I" don't need babble much anymore.
In real life the jokes we tell others, are a representive of who we are, and what we believe.
We may think it is harmless, but it will make an impact on what others think of us.For example telling racist jokes may seem harmless. But it in reality helps keep racism alive by making it "okay" to put ourselves above a certain race.
Telling animal cruelity jokes allows those who do abuse animals (which is a higher number than one might think) to continue to do so, because it is "funny" or accepted.
Do we want Babble to represent this? That is all I ask.
Sorry for the long post, but it is one of the many things I am passionate about.
Peace to all, animals too.Happyflower
poster:Happyflower
thread:751611
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20070304/msgs/751876.html