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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: "Baby It's Cold Outside" (LSC)
Date: Sunday, December 09, 2018
Time: 11:59:21 AM
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Message ID: 318971
Parent ID: 318968
Thread ID: 318963
You're 100% right JJ! Why should we get upset over things that deep down don't matter - or that we can't control? We all have faults, but the kind of person you really are is what counts most.
For the most part I'm an easy to get along with person in the real world, but you might not know that by reading some of what I've written here. I mean, in my last reply, how many times did I use negative words to describe a person I disagree with? 4 or 5 times at least? Why do I do that? I don't talk in that way in the real world at all, so why write that way here? Okay, Trump does get me going - even in the real world - but he's the exception when it comes to stuff like that off line. I don't let the other stuff like that bug me, but you won't know it by reading what I write here sometimes. Yet why does that only come out in me here? I never once in all of my years writing for the newspapers, did that. Yet here I lose my cool? Plus yes, I know it isn't just me, remember about 8 to 10 weeks ago after that one Fox news post pissed me off? So afterwards I realized while I don't ever wish to read such total lies at a board that I'm in control of, I should never lose control myself over such lies... So I posted an apology since I felt I over reacted to the post, since that's the way I am. But what did that lead to? A now banned poster who blasted me for - issuing an apology! That one post made by that person (and several spam posts he also made after that) I think said everything about the problems with message boards and public media in general.
With me, while just about everybody who ever met me in the real world likes me, on this internet board I run, that hasn't always been the case. So when I say I'm sorry - I get blasted by yet another person who more than likely is just like me in the real world and whom I would more than likely get along fine with.... So that's a big reason why I won't miss this place once it closes. I really don't know how I even lasted 20 years running this joint!
But yes, I also made a lot of friends here too, and I mean a lot of friends - and a ton more friends than enemies. But then again, I didn't start Gasland to make any enemies at all. The only enemies I might have in the real world come directly from this joint only. Plus are they really true enemies? Well I can't get into their minds, so I don't know for sure. I hope not. I am sure that one guy from outside of Pittsburgh hates me (and I know he's reading this, too), as does that one other guy who lives overseas in Europe. Yet the one overseas I never did anything to (we were actually email friends if anything, and I don't know what set him off). Yet the one from Pittsburgh got banned here several times - since he was using several different handles while signing up under different names (be it years ago), and it took me a long while to figure all of that out. But if after 20 years, if only 2 people out there who I'll never meet, hates me, that isn't really so bad. But still, many others dislike me because of what I have posted in the past, too, and that sucks (and maybe my own fault?). Yet I also realize that most Stones fans are just like me - not only music wise, but when it comes to politics. We just shouldn't put others down because we disagree with them - and that's my main fault here. Well no, not towards any fellow Gasser have I done that, I'm talking in general, about people I never had contact with. But is somebody really a "moron" because they don't know that pagans started the use of Xmas trees as a holiday tree? No, they aren't (that doesn't mean they can't still be morons, it just means they aren't a moron for that one reason). Yet in my last post I called them morons. But what I found out here a few weeks ago, is if I say I'm sorry for stating something like that, well somebody else will get upset with me for saying "I'm sorry"! Is that crazy? Yes, but so goes life. One thing I know for sure, is that after next month, I won't be making such mistakes ever again here - or anywhere.
In closing, the bottom line for me is my sick daughter. Having cancer sucks, and I think maybe that's why I get upset over stupid things here sometimes and say what I say. It's a way of releasing anger I guess. Gasland is 20 years old and my kid has had her blood cancer for more than 15 years now. Before she got cancer, her mother had lung cancer that in time killed her. So since the late '90s I've been dealing with two family members who I love, dealing with that disease, and when a loved one has cancer, it's like you have it too. One can't apologize for that, and I already know I'm not the only Gasser here who has had to deal with that and has also lost a loved one to the big C. Plus we all have lost a few of our fellow Gassers here to cancer as it is. But that's how life goes, and everybody knows somebody who has died of it. Still, I've had to deal with it since the late '90s, and that's too long a time. I don't wish that on anybody, but when your kid has had a rare from of blood cancer for as many years as my kid has had it, it does fuck with you as a parent, too - and maybe that makes me a bit mean in what I write here sometimes? But I really am sorry after the fact... I really don't think deep down that most people are morons or jerks... So I should say "sorry", even if saying that alone will upset somebody else. But yeah, the bottom line is that it would be better if I just didn't write that somebody is a moron in the first place, and after next month that won't be a issue with me any longer. I promise!
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