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N801BH said:
define "Gem" :dunno::dunno::rolleyes:.
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In this case gem equals 'silly thread with ironic title'. Gave me a chuckle when I wrote it and again when I stumbled over it yesterday.
 
Captain said:
In this case gem equals 'silly thread with ironic title'. Gave me a chuckle when I wrote it and again when I stumbled over it yesterday.
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What I find ironic about the title is the plural private part... Punctuation counts my friend.;)
 
I was born in Springfield Massachusetts on January 4th 1972. My father was a newly minted mechanical engineer recently wed to a woman I never got to know...my mother. I do have memories of her but the only one that stands out is a visit I had post split of her and my father. it was of her and her boyfriend taking me to a store and buying me a plastic model airplane with a propeller that spun. For some reason I can't see her face in that or any other memory.

My father married again and had another son four years my junior. My step mother was a contriving woman, manipulating events to suit her. She was and is bipolar with massive mood swings. As a kid growing up I never knew when she would flip her switch and explode or act with extreme kindness. Walking home from school was the worst feeling I have ever known. Knowing she was most likely home I had no idea what I'd find on the other side of the door. It was a true mystery, would there be milk and snacks laid out or a tyrannical woman on the edge of her nerve waiting for me to come home to pounce over the slightest infraction? A glass left out, a toy not picked up. I was most happy to find she was simply not home, however, that seldom was the case. The true crux of this was that the exact same scenario played out every day of every week of every year that I can remember growing up.

Beatings were pretty common. But I have to admit this; The starting of mature recollection happens, for me at least, around junior high. It wasn't much longer after that that I was her superior in size and strength. True, there is an emotional barrier to overcome...but by age 15 I had become big enough both in size and intellectual capacity to take no more. I remember the day vividly. She was on a tear about something I no longer remember, nor could she I'm sure. She worked herself into the familiar rage and when she came at me to hit me I simply pushed her back.

I'll never forget the scene. The spittle forming at her mouth as she drew near me arms ready to hit...me standing my ground for the first time...and finally pushing her back by her shoulders as she drew near. Her recoil...and there it was,...her utter shock at what just happened. Jaw slack and eyes bewildered. She tried to compose herself but it was too late. We both knew that was the last time she was ever going to try to hit me.
 
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Very open. Hard to say that stuff. My extended family had drunks who were violent. Lots of forks in the family tree and plenty of stepparent and stepchild stuff. Freakin' hippies couldn't stay married and loved to drink.

I had my moments with my stepdad too, but we've long since reconciled and would do anything for each other.

Those of us now of-age are pretty much a family posse because of all of it. At the first sign of anything abusive we're standing on the doorstep of the house ready to beat some ass, and pulling the family member out of there. We simply won't tolerate it ever again.

I was seconds from booking an airline flight the next day to Texas to go get my stepsister away from her second abusive husband, when my mom called and said my stepdad would be there the next afternoon, Colorado to Texas, driving. Later I heard my half-sister was doing the exact same thing. Mom was calling off all of us as fast as she could.
 
Sac Arrow said:
He might not necessarily be writing about himself.
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Doesn't really matter. I figured someone with religious ties would factor more highly in his personal story considering his hate for it. But whatever. It's his thread after all. ;)
 
Rethought?


Actually, I had a great post here. Nice long thing highlighting my thoughts on all things positive with the universe and how to reinstate balance and order creating utopia for mankind.

Then I realised this thread is not in the SZ so I deleted it being of no use.
 
Captain said:
Rethought?


Actually, I had a great post here. Nice long thing highlighting my thoughts on all things positive with the universe and how to reinstate balance and order creating utopia for mankind.

Then I realised this thread is not in the SZ so I deleted it being of no use.
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Wouldn't that suck? Where would the inspiration for violent video games come from after that?
 
Sac Arrow said:
Wouldn't that suck? Where would the inspiration for violent video games come from after that?
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Wow, I hadn't thought it through that far. I do love me some CoD. Okay, forget it. War is good.
 
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Richard said:
If it's too good to be true....

In the 1990s I was looking at some place named Eagle Jet or something like that. Some years later it was Key Lime. Reading the fine print was what clinched it for me. They didn't get a dime from me. That these kind of operations are still active leads me to believe they don't teach business law anymore.

But I would cross a line in a heartbeat. I would gladly do it for a variety of reasons but the biggest reason would be to stick it you, the union lackeys. That's right, I have been, and will be again, a scab. And I laugh my ass off.
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Note to self...
 
Maybe I'm too anti union. I cheer scabs on. Modern unions rely too much on raw intimidation in my quite personal experience in Detroit's auto industry.
 
Henning said:
Mental illness is an interesting thing...
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Undiagnosed is the real wild card.

I say it in jest, but not really. We can have a laugh but unless personally exposed to such a person it doesn't register in the immediate world.

I've know several bi-polars, some before they were clinically diagnosed. But we all knew. Even after diagnosis, by what means to ensure they abide by prescription? The story gets longer from here on so I won't bore with those details of several individual cases. It ain't pretty.
 
Richard said:
Undiagnosed is the real wild card.

I say it in jest, but not really. We can have a laugh but unless personally exposed to such a person it doesn't register in the immediate world.

I've know several bi-polars, some before they were clinically diagnosed. But we all knew. Even after diagnosis, by what means to ensure they abide by prescription? The story gets longer from here on so I won't bore with those details of several individual cases. It ain't pretty.
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No it's not pretty, nor is it funny. You can usually see a few in crisis among homeless populations. Unfortunately part of the problem with these illnesses is the belief that they are not sick so they stop the meds when they begin to feel better. It is devastating to the patient and their family.
 
Ahem, notice the title??

You guys go sully up your own threads.
 
N801BH said:
Yup.....

Captain is for sure a clear cut case of Bi Polar...And throw in a paranoid skitzo too..:goofy::goofy::goofy:
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Please provide PayPal info so I can pay you for your psychological services. And over the web too! ...on a forum! Boy, your good.

Wait, those diagnosis's are impossible over the Internet. Maybe you're a narcissist? Are you even trained in psychology?
 
Captain said:
Please provide PayPal info so I can pay you for your psychological services. And over the web too! ...on a forum! Boy, your good.

Wait, those diagnosis's are impossible over the Internet. Maybe you're a narcissist? Are you even trained in psychology?
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It don't take much training to diagnose you.....:no::no:....:nonod:.......:rolleyes:
 
N801BH said:
It don't take much training to diagnose you.....:no::no:....:nonod:.......:rolleyes:
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Living in Wyoming is training enough...gotta deal with nut jobs all the time. Of course Ben lives in Jackson which isn't really Wyoming...
 
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PaulS said:
No it's not pretty, nor is it funny. You can usually see a few in crisis among homeless populations. Unfortunately part of the problem with these illnesses is the belief that they are not sick so they stop the meds when they begin to feel better. It is devastating to the patient and their family.
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It's worse than they don't believe they are not sick, they feel pressured by society to not be sick because the mentally ill are shunned from society. We think it is wrong of the Amish to shun those that leave the community, but we shun the mentally ill without them leaving. They deny they are I'll to everyone including themselves so they will be accepted by society.
 
Henning said:
It's worse than they don't believe they are not sick, they feel pressured by society to not be sick because the mentally ill are shunned from society. We think it is wrong of the Amish to shun those that leave the community, but we shun the mentally ill without them leaving. They deny they are I'll to everyone including themselves so they will be accepted by society.
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Yeah, who knows why they are the way they are, it's just unfortunate. I don't think they are shunned, but you need certain skills and to be able to process information correctly to function in society. These people either don't have those skills when they are in crisis or are unable to interact in expected ways. In most states you can go through the courts and have them committed if they are danger to themselves, but it is not an easy process and rightly so to prevent abuse. Unfortunately some are so sick they can't function in society, those are very tough situations.
 
Henning said:
Committed to where? Every hospital bed is already taken, prison is where they end up.
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That's not true around here, they have sections in the hospitals reserved specifically for this and there are several dedicated mental health hospitals. The violent mentally ill end up in prison, which is fine as far as I'm concerned. They actually work to train cops around here to recognize the symptoms and have a little compassion versus some drunk acting out.
 
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