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i always go bonkers around the winter solstice, (the rest of the year i'm merely insane...)

the big difference from other winter solstices, and this last one, is i went bonkers online...

so my belated apologies to those whom i may have thoughtlessly (or thoughtfully) offended.

you're a great bunch for putting up with me at all, and i thankyou, especially mig, who does so much to keep this blog the honey-filled mind-hive it is.

far from 'scrambling lieutenants' mired in 'groupthink', you all are an amazing set of individuals, whose whole is much more even than the sum of its parts.

i iearned my lesson, i think, time will tell. i certainly feel a lot more thick-skinned than then. and a lot less prickly...

i think back to how out of it i was, and it's mystifying and mortifying...what an asshole...

ET is fine as it is, a welcome port in this concatenation of global storms we are facing.

simply the funniest and most concerned blog i've found on the toobs.

long may she run...

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 10:50:43 AM EST
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melo-dyman: my belated apologies too for my excessive remarks to you. I was offended, I felt those of us who are not believers in a spiritual plane were getting a bum rap in your own comments, and in fact I felt personally hurt by your reference to your father's death because it reminded me of my own father's death. I should have tried to talk about that, but an Internet forum during a big battle is not an ideal setting for complex personal feelings. Perhaps I should just have shut up.

Just to say that my remarks were personal, from one member to another, not "editorial", and there was no notion even at the back of my mind of wanting to push you out of ET. Long may you post here, melo.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 11:46:27 AM EST
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group hug?

i couldn't agree more about the internet being an inappropriate medium for 'elaborating' (in the italian sense) some of life's trickier conundrums....

shutting up is the finest of remedies!

so is letting a provocative poke-y comment drop into nothingness, rather than taking the bait and washing out one's own personal neurosis in public.

boundaries are important, even in cyberspace.

i think i have a better measure of detachment these days...so do others here...it's much nicer to come here without conflict, there's too damn much of that in the world already.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 03:40:36 PM EST
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I'm sorry we pushed each other's buttons the way we did.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 01:48:49 PM EST
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yeah, me too.

aqua passata

all the best

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 03:41:55 PM EST
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The internet  is always a place where things like that happen. you have to remember that you lose the majority of communication cues in typed messages, it's easy to perceive emotional content in another persons posts that doesn't  exist and react to the tone of voice or facial expression you imagine the poster to have rather than the actual content of their words. if you're ever reading a posting and its winding you up, reread it with a broad grin and see its content change.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 07:25:17 AM EST
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