Originally posted by DrMattMaddix
I absolutely agree with amatrine. I almost posted just a quick note... "What she said" you sounded so sad... Man it passes.
What she said. Reread it. In fact one more... Hit the button on the post that shows it as a single post. Then print it out.
Then reread it a few more times... then grab your balls and squeeze really hard... Does it hurt? Good then you are a man. Stand up like one using your
spine. Get some more backbone. Reread her post again. Don't be a coward.
If you can write dark and very expressively as you had originally, then you can write light stuff too. Don't go looking for sympathy anymore.
Be a man read the news everywhere and trust yourself and God. Have no fear.
If you're a woman...
Edit to add : Yes this is all real. You only get one chance. God provides protection AND discernment. Scoffers can eat # and die.
[edit on 5·1·09 by DrMattMaddix]
At first your post sounded appropriately supportive. Then you went left and it was unhelpful and unproductive. I'd say even mean since I generally
consider it unkind to go around invalidating people's feelings and shaming them for showing them. However, I'd expect treatment like that if I was
actually in a survival situation and there was no time for all this feelings stuff (think Dawn of the Dead).
I don't feel bad for expressing myself. It's healthy. I wrote what I felt. I am quite capable of writing light stuff (actually I show a happy face a
lot in person lately just to not spread my sadness or freak people out), but I will not do it because someone tells me to buck up and stop being
honest. I will do it when I feel like it. Millions of people are about to possibly die; I'm gonna grieve, whether now or later or both, and nothing
can truly change that. I can use palliative measures to calm myself down, but the truth is as it is. Anyway, fully feeling the dark feelings can be a
valuable step on the path to sunniness. And sharing them with other humans can be healing for *all* involved. Keeping all this inside isn't healthy
for anyone. There will be plenty of time for that when things get worse.
And here's the main thing: I wasn't looking for sympathy, so to speak. I don't even come on this forum anymore, but I have no one to talk to out
here who understands the gravity of the situation. So what I was possibly looking for was support (there *is* a difference between that and sympathy),
but mainly to relate to others who are going through the same thing - by that I primarily mean others who have premonition- and intuition-type
experiences to the point where these events, in our minds, are clearly going to pass. I'm not talking about just info from the news/internet/ATS
making us think it might pass, not really.
Plus, if you're making me out to be some kind of leech, that's wrong too. With my original name, I actively gave support and information on here for
a while.
So, I appreciate the initial attempt at empathy and being supportive. You seem to have some good intentions, I guess. Messages of strength can be
helpful, depending on how you present them. You assumed I'm not strong because I turned to others, yet I am handling this in my daily life pretty
much on my own. I'm handing it the best I can and in ways a stranger on the internet can't see.
And maybe I also wrote my dark post as a warning. I'm not sure you considered that. I didn't want to get on a bullhorn like Alex Jones (I'll leave
that to him because he does it well
), but I was putting it out there.
By the way, careful assuming you know people's gender online.
In any case, I have never felt so connected to my fellow humans as I am feeling right now (that I can remember), but I'm not going to bother coming
on here if people are just gonna be like this. Usually I would deal with the usual ATS negativity here and there, but there are more pressing things
out here and true light to be found in the all-too-real darkness.
[edit on 2-5-2009 by heavyhearte]