Male and Female Imponderables - Everybody's Fool
POSTED BY: magdalena
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 20:27
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About the money... A friend gave me advice once that has served me well. Don't follow your heart because it can be swayed by emotions and fooled, don't go with you head because your mind can play tricks on you, go with your gut.
I have never been involved with an online community. This is my first and only serious involvement. I post at a couple of other sites but there is not the sense of family that there is here. I have made several wonderful friends here that are as important to me as my "real life" friends. There is something about this site and the Browncoats that come here that is special.
"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." http://whimsicalnbrainpan.blogspot.com/
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The advise that your friend gave you is very sound. Your gut reaction will usually give you a clear choice of what to do. Is your gut telling you what to do? Talking with friends does help to clarify things. Do you have to make the decision right away, or do you have time to ponder it?
I made a web site to introduce my friends to the 'Verse.
http://web.mac.com/arcadianlc
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I read something very interesting regarding the 'gut' feeling a bit ago. Apparently, the group of nerves in our solar plexus is a large enough tangle that it almost makes a second brain, and it really does react to things in a very basic way. I thought that was pretty cool.
As for what you should do, darling copilot, I have no idea. Listen to your gut, but also consider the possible consequences of all your courses of action, decide what you can live with, and go forward.
http://www.bigdamnthankyou.com - show 'Versal your gratitude!
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. - Gautama Siddharta
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PhoenixRose wrote:
I read something very interesting regarding the 'gut' feeling a bit ago. Apparently, the group of nerves in our solar plexus is a large enough tangle that it almost makes a second brain, and it really does react to things in a very basic way. I thought that was pretty cool.
Very interesting! It's reassuring to me when they find physical things that can explain the bases of our intuitive nature.
I made a web site to introduce my friends to the 'Verse.
http://web.mac.com/arcadianlc
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Hmmm... good question. I don't know if I would call myself a regular yet, but I spend enough time here because all of the people seem pretty cool. I was big into computers when I was a kid and kind of lost interest when "everybody" started using them. I'm just like that. I hated Seinfeld when everyone watched it, but I watch it on reruns now all the time and I love it. I don't think I'd know what to do if I just went with the flow and rode the tide. I know what it would take, and it comes in an orange pill bottle and it's made in a Pfizer lab, deep in the core of the Earth.
I kinda suprise myself with how much I stop by here. As much as a computer nerd I was back in the day, I really began to loathe the internet when it became popular and corporations started to figure out that there was tons of money to be made on it, thus ruining it with pop-up ads and spyware and adware and whateverware they'll think up next. (Thanks for no ads on the site whoever!)
I like how this site isn't cramped with a bunch of annoying fanboys who know everything about the show and talk to you like you're stupid if you don't. Admitedly, I've only watched the show and movie one time (not a single time since I've posted here), but I think it's the greatest show around because it's so true to real life aruond us on a metaphorical level. I really like the idea that the show centered on that good and evil aren't always clear cut as Hollywood or the Media or Big Government may lead you to believe. I like the idea that the "Good Guys" might not exactly live by society's definition of good and evil all the time but,in the end, there is no doubt that they are good people... (even Jayne)
Which I guess would be a perfect segway for a little of friendly advice for Copilot. (Whatever the advice of a lunatic like me is worth) I'm not going to say something stupid like "Cool! He's a pot grower. Free pot man and a place to stay". Who knows, the guy might be an axe murderer? (I'm sure he's not)
But maybe, just maybe, he's your Wash and you would be doing yourselves a great injustice by not taking a little leap of faith. Sure, you may have to consider things like, because the law has the power to interfere, how do I set ground rules just to make sure that I'm protected in the worst possible scenario.... but don't let society's definitions of what is right and wrong decide this for you. Most of the people that would tell you that he is wrong are either high up to the gills on prozac or ritalin or gamble their savings away or eat until they can't walk without breathing heavy, etc., etc., etc.... Everyone does something that others would disagree with. (It just so happens that some are more visible than others, particularly things like my cigarette smoking habit which the bunghole Surgeon General has come out and says causes SIDS, thus labeling me a secondhand baby killer, making mothers around the world voice their distain for me smoking with guttural loathing).
Maybe he's a good guy and he's smart enough to stay under the radar and make a little bread without Big Brother stickin' his nose in. If you care about him and he care's about you and you really think he's a safe and smart person, I say go for it. I don't know if I'd just get into it because he's cute or something trivial like that without seriously weighing the pros and cons, although I might test the waters before I packed up and left.
As a bit of a disclaimer for me here, I should probably add that I'm not exactly known for my excellent life decisions myself. This is due in part though to my hesitations and the things I may have lost out on due to them. It's a tough choice you have ahead of yourself. Hope you make the right one. Just make sure you do what is right for you and not what other people might think is right for you. Either way you go... things usually have a way of sorting themselves out.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstrin
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I happened upon this site in '03, but my fanaticism hadn't firmly taken hold by that point, so I filed it and forgot it. In fact, it wasn't until two years later that my interest was piqued once more, that was after finally getting the box-set for a long awaited birthday present.
I've mostly been using this site, since the release of the Big Damn Movie, as a depository of my fiction, and I've only come onto the forums within the last five months.
And I cannot advise Copilot in her situation. I just don't have anything to say which wasn't better said by somebody else.
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I ain't lookin' for help from on high. That's a damn long wait for a train don't come.
98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature.
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Just on biological setups - did you know that you get 'butterflies' in your stomach because all the blood rushes out of there and into, well, more sexually important organs.
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Good Morning, Everyone!
Coffee's brewing, sun is shining...it's gonna be a good day.
I come to this site to talk and listen to both like minded, and the non like minded folks out there. People with a common interest with me (Firefly) who lead very different lives. People who live very far away (waves at Magda!). People who are just around the corner ( hey Pagan Paul )
- I like this site because the folks are friendly to new comers and old timers alike. Our family keeps growing, and we just roll with it. I like that. A lot.
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Good morning Forsaken!
Bring me some Coca-Cola!
King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa
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Good morning dear Penguin! ...*adopts her stern nanny look and voice* what do you say...? Please!
Hi Mavourneen! *waves to Mav* I love this ever growing family too!
Hello Mei Mei! Wow! - every time I find out something like that I think how cool it is that science keeps trying to prove things like gut instinct has no basis in fact... but they end up giving us reason to believe in it!
James - that is so cool - that you bookmarked FFF.net and when you were "at one with the 'verse" you returned to your 'family'... we're certainly glad you did!
Hey Jack - it doesn't matter if you've seen Firefly once or 100 times - we love you coz you love our 'verse!! That's part of the charm of the folk here at FFF.net too!
Got to go to bed though - I am sooooo tired! Will try to stay on later tomorrow! Love you all! - Magda x x x
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