Yevad Doobie

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

By Dalai Lama XIV

"If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen."
— Loretta Girzaitis

"Sometimes we have to stumble so when we stand back up, we are able to look at things in a new way."

-Shari Alyse

"What you have to say with the words you use isn’t that important; it is always the intentions behind your words that really matter."

-Themis Eagleson

You're welcome.

Try RLetc.com. I think you'll find the tone more to your liking...calm and gentle and focused on virtual world topics. Possibly SLO too, though RLetc is gentler than SLO. gV, SC MKII and the others are, uh, more frisky, feisty and scrappy, like SLU. Ask Vito.

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I have decided to become an occasional visitor to this site rather than a regular one. When I began coming regularly I was yearning for a new forum home. I had been missing another forum and thought that SLU might be right for me, but it isn't. There is just too much nastiness here for my tastes. It is like a text version of the Jerry Springer Show most of the time. Not all the time, and there are some great people here, but how those great people live with the nasty ones is a mystery to me. I can't cope with it at the moment and I just keep making a fool of myself, so there is no point trying to become part of the "family".

"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."

-Dalai Lama

Today I learned it is wrong to care about peoples health and future if it means making presumptions about them wanting a healthy and fruitful future. Each person must decide their own path. If they choose a path that brings pain and unhappiness, so be it. Better for them to decide than to be guided and become bitter at the guide. If they ask for help, do not deny it, but never offer it because their feelings of persecution could lead to suspicion and hatred, regardless of the motive.

"Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone."

~Siddhārtha Gautama