Why are you here? (Page 2): Perhaps, there needs to be a topic that asks for "one" thing each one of us feels IS right. I sometimes think back to the topic at Christmas -- what we feel...

Searching Loc: Rural Southwest VA

Floyd Brown wrote:

That is right. I find myself comfortable with your views & ideas.

That has been going on here but there seems to be a lack of progress.

It is better if we first look for what we can agree on before we tackle the opposing ideas.

Perhaps, there needs to be a topic that asks for "one" thing each one of us feels IS right. I sometimes think back to the topic at Christmas -- what we feel blessed for that moment in time. I think perhaps we have all been so engrossed with WHAT is wrong that we have lost sight of what IS right. It's a thought.

Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

Searching wrote:

Perhaps, there needs to be a topic that asks for "one" thing each one of us feels IS right. I sometimes think back to the topic at Christmas -- what we feel blessed for that moment in time. I think perhaps we have all been so engrossed with WHAT is wrong that we have lost sight of what IS right. It's a thought.

I think perhaps we have all been so engrossed with WHAT is wrong that we have lost sight of what IS right. It's a thought.

That is much more than just a though it is key to what is really happening.

jay-are

Searching wrote:

Ahhh, jay-are, "staying 'your' course" I see. It might not hurt if you came "on over" and joined us. You never know until you try. I would rather be in a boat with others, attempting to paddle in unison, trying to accomplish a common goal, than paddling myself into a circle, knowing the end result will have accomplished "nothing" and just end up being exhausted by it all.

If you all are paddling toward a cliff, I am definitely not going to join you. First I have to agree with the direction we are paddling before I will join you.

cesspool jones Loc: atlanta

Floyd Brown wrote:

If you are here looking for the t***h You are not ... (show quote)

with that being said...can you see an internal war brewing in the future because itz now time for one party to become dominent and the other to go extinct. compromise iz now a 4-letter word. myself, i bat right handed.

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jay-are wrote:

If you all are paddling toward a cliff, I am definitely not going to join you. First I have to agree with the direction we are paddling before I will join you.

Well, that goes without saying, donchaknow!! :roll: Just curious, who on OPP would you want to stand at the bow of the boat, to let us know if that "proverbial cliff/waterfall" was visible on the horizon or for that matter "rapids" Undercurrents, those nasty undertoads, (yes, undertoads), most deceptive. I think we can both agree that the waters are indeed fraught with invisible as well as visible dangers.

jay-are

Searching wrote:

Well, that goes without saying, donchaknow!! :roll: Just curious, who on OPP would you want to stand at the bow of the boat, to let us know if that "proverbial cliff/waterfall" was visible on the horizon or for that matter "rapids" Undercurrents, those nasty undertoads, (yes, undertoads), most deceptive. I think we can both agree that the waters are indeed fraught with invisible as well as visible dangers.

Tea party Conservatives.

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cesspool jones wrote:

with that being said...can you see an internal war brewing in the future because itz now time for one party to become dominent and the other to go extinct. compromise iz now a 4-letter word. myself, i bat right handed.

I'm finding that while I used to say I'm ambidextrous, of late I "seem" to have a tendency towards being a "righty" as opposed to a "lefty". Some of y'all, it would appear, have rubbed off on me. :roll: :lol:

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jay-are wrote:

Tea party Conservatives.

Interesting. Gonna have to ponder on that one. Must confess, that when you say Tea Party Conservatives, I immediately think of Mr. Cruz, and he's not my cup of tea. I find some "T" Party folks on OPP much more user friendly than Mr. Cruz. Just so you know. 8-)

jay-are

Searching wrote:

Interesting. Gonna have to ponder on that one. Must confess, that when you say Tea Party Conservatives, I immediately think of Mr. Cruz, and he's not my cup of tea. I find some "T" Party folks on OPP much more user friendly than Mr. Cruz. Just so you know. 8-)

I strongly support Mr. Cruz.

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jay-are wrote:

I strongly support Mr. Cruz.

Yep. I know you do. Just thought I should be totally t***sparent here. Nice having a conversation, isn't it.

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Searching wrote:

Yep. I know you do. Just thought I should be totally t***sparent here. Nice having a conversation, isn't it.

Think maybe my view of him "might" be somewhat colored by my feeling, at the time of the shutdown, it felt like "for me" he was attempting to take us right over that waterfall, and I was downright scared. Just an observation.

jay-are

Searching wrote:

I'm finding that while I used to say I'm ambidextrous, of late I "seem" to have a tendency towards being a "righty" as opposed to a "lefty". Some of y'all, it would appear, have rubbed off on me. :roll: :lol:

It is easy to criticize free actions as long as you are free to be free, but you wouldn't be so critical of our free system if you were trapped in a facist state.

We on the right recognize the value of our freedom. The left recognizes the power freedom gives them to manipulate people by convincing them they are less free than some others.

jay-are

Searching wrote:

Think maybe my view of him "might" be somewhat colored by my feeling, at the time of the shutdown, it felt like "for me" he was attempting to take us right over that waterfall, and I was downright scared. Just an observation.

You were scared he was taking us over the waterfall, and I was scared he was going to back down and give in, and by giving in we would flow right over the waterfall of Obamacare. You didn't realize he was paddling against the flow toward Obamacare.

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jay-are wrote:

It is easy to criticize free actions as long as you are free to be free, but you wouldn't be so critical of our free system if you were trapped in a facist state.

We on the right recognize the value of our freedom. The left recognizes the power freedom gives them to manipulate people by convincing them they are less free than some others.

jay-are, isn't that's what grand about this country, that we have the freedom to criticize? If we all sat back on our laurels, so to speak, and got lulled into a false sense of security, there we would all go, over that waterfall in that boat, the smiles wiped totally off our faces.

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Searching wrote:

jay-are, isn't that's what grand about this country, that we have the freedom to criticize? If we all sat back on our laurels, so to speak, and got lulled into a false sense of security, there we would all go, over that waterfall in that boat, the smiles wiped totally off our faces.

I wasn't aware I was being critical.