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Originally Posted by ribbons
I'm not a frequent poster, but there are many many people here I've observed to be so knowledgeable and gifted and colorful personalities too. My hat's off to all of you, as you are all worthy of praise.
There is one special person I've gotten to know, someone I admire a great deal and always will....
With (((love))), and thanks for your friendship,
Liz
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Aww, thank you, Liz.
That means a lot to me, because I admire *you* and value your opinion!
I'm always excited when I see you are logged on, or have been recently, because it means I can go "hang out" with you online a bit, let my guard down, and just have fun and enjoy the comradery. I hope you had a good trip, by the way!
I agree there are many wonderfully fun people we interact with here...and you are one of the people where I think if we could actually meet, we'd get on *very* well, not just because of our similar situation in life, but also because of our general disposition and outlook that I think would pull us together even though we have some differences.
I wonder though, reading your lovely description of me, if maybe you haven't read my...er...raunchy posts?
Or the posts where I'm feeling cantankerous and a bit pugnacious. And sometimes I worry some of the things I've said about religion, or the way I've said it, will hurt you...and I want to apologize if that is true.
I think sometimes I react negatively to religions because they have so often been used as a weapon to divide and hurt people (including me). I tend to feel some resentment against religions that are judgemental when to me there is little logical basis for the judgements, such as the idea of a god sending some people to hell and some to heaven. If I believed in a god like that, I would form a labor union and go on strike to try to get the god to change its ways! And if I
were a god, all my children would go to heaven, of course.
That being said, I have friends in the non-computer world who are of all different religious beliefs (or lack thereof). What matters to me most is whether a person is willing to be open about talking and sharing her views, even if they are different from mine. I will talk about and discuss anything...and being able to have that level of openness with someone who also enjoys it is more important to me than whether we agree on everything. So, I am very happy I can include you among my friends! Thanks for *your* friendship, (((Liz)))!