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marc
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Why is it that at this so called "place of safety" so many feel the need to talk around the issues....
I have never seen so much sidestepping.....
Why can't you all just say what you mean without covering it up in epic length posts crammed with cliché and round robin paragraphs.
If you want to tell someone something... then TELL THEM..... Why must we have to endure running the gauntlet of ultraverbosity.
I was just wondering?
Marc
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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talk too much and take up too much space i know.
i'll shutup now.
sorry everyone. never meant to bore or annoy, don't be mad at me. sorrysorry. :(:(
ok, bye.
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timmy
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So direct, so near, yet so far.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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... but trying to write it down helps.
If this message board helps people to understand themselves, then that's good isn't it?
Better to "talk around the issues" than not talk at all.
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Bye
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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This is one of the reasons I prefer to just read. I worry I might say too much of one thing, not enough of another, offend someone or say something stupid. And yes, sometimes it's not so easy to put into words how you feel, or you worse -- you try to say what you mean and it comes out all backwards
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marc
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By being clear in your wants, desires, fears, and so on we the readers on the MB are better apt to correctly understand....
It is the vagueness in so many posts that cause the true meaning to be lost....
And I didn't point any finngers.... Don't take it personally....
OK?????
Oh and one more thing, Knowing, realizing that you are scared is the first step to finding your inner strength.
You, I think have more strength than you realize.
Marc
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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Saying too much of a thing isnt in and of itself a bad thing...
It is not the measure of the number words.... it is the measure of the meaning....
One of the beautiful things about a message board is that you can proof read what you have to say before you post it.
A wise man once said: "The only truely foolish question is the question left unasked."
Don't ever feel that your words are unwanted....
Marc
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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timmy
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Do I have your attention?
OK. What the fuck is going on here?
Marc made an interesting point. Maybe it was phrased bluntly, but we have rather gotten a bit flowery over the past few days! Now "flowery" can be good or poor depoending in your viewpoint.
Let's have a crack at plain english for a bit  Only let's use it to play nice
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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marc
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No Message Body
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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tim...of usa
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GGGGGRRRRRRRRRRR "dont ever feel that your words are unwanted.....
kewl by me but who are you to decide how many words are ACCEPTABLE?
well i am wiating for your answer?
good grief man i thought this was a place where censorship was not going to be tollerated.
silly me i got on the wrong train and ended up in MOSCOW!!!!
marc your words hurt me ...who give a shit if it takes me 1000000000 words to say what it would take some one as intelagant as you only 2 to say.
sorry bro you done pissed me off here.
peace
tim..of USA
(or is my screen name to wordy too
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When I read the first 2 messages on this thread, it was early in the morning over here in asia. I was on my way to church, so didn't have time to post anything. But my immediate response to Marc's post was that whatever well-meaning intention he might have had was lost on me, and that "scared" wasn't going to be the only one to read it negatively.
One man's "blunt" is another man's "flowery". It will always be that way. Like the freedom we all have to read or not read a story, please feel free to carefully read and study or merely rapidly scan and pass over any messages posted on the MB. What's interesting to one will be as boring as crap to another.
I have always figured that people will say what they need in whatever manner they need to.
Perhaps being "flowery" is a symptom of anxiety or not wanting to offend? Simply telling somebody to be less "flowery" doesn't seem all that helpful to me.
From my point of view, flowery is fine.
So is blunt and plain speaking, as long as the positive intention and the good will of the writer are crystal clear.
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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My posts were long because I may have had alot to say and I don't want to be misunderstood. Some seem vague because parts were aimed at a particular person, hope they know who they are. If not, no harm, no foul right?
I will stand by my previous post in this thread till after this is thrashed out. Then, maybe things will be OK, maybe not.
Can't we all just get along ..... hehe
My best to all of you.
Kevin
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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marc
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when a writer fills his post with all sorts of impressions left to interpretation how can anything be crystal clear???
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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No Message Body
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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tim...of usa
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Location: buffalo, new york...USA
Registered: July 2002
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life is full of gray....not very much is black and white.
peace
tim...of USA
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yeah, you're right marc, i do talk too much. sorry. 
Ok,who is to say what? 
Not everyone finds it easy to describe how they feel... 
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