Eddie Bennett

That is not all you care about, J_m! You can't fool me!

That is so good to hear, D...R! Just because we think people knows how we feel about their demeanor, doesn't mean that we should not tell them point blank. The feeling is mutual, D...R! I know some things about your demeanor. Enough to know that I love you, BUT DON'T tell D...H what I said!

But, I love-em, D...R! Let me add that I don't want to cause anyone to leave. I don't want to control anyone. I like to think that people will come in to see see us, because we are a good family; not a dysfunctional one. If we can't communicate then we can learn to communicate. If people get mad and leave, without trying to communicate, then their communication probably isn't all that good.

You are right, LPPT, because you are a wonderful philosopher of the third kind. That's my opinion, of course! I think you are a most beautiful individual. Your husband is most certainly a smart man for having such a wonderful spouse. But, I don't want to put too much personal bearing on my replies to you, because I don't want people to think that I am anywhere close to a moderator. I just love this website, and wouldn't want to decide who gets bullets, or even mayberries. I like my freedom of speech, which PUBBY allows everyone to have, unless they are start personally attacking some

"I have a little Robot that goes around with me; I tell it what I’m thinking - I tell it what I see. I tell my little robot all my hopes and fears; It listens and remembers everything it hears. At first my little robot followed my command, But after many years of training, it’s gotten out of hand. It doesn’t care what’s right or wrong - or what is false or true It doesn’t matter what I ‘try;’ NOW it tells me what to do." --Source Unknown It has been difficult to control my little robot, with good moderation like LPPT provides, on this board. But, no matter what my little robot tell

I loved that reply, LPPT! Of course, you knew I would! To keep such a brilliant maxim to one's self would be to deprive people, like me, of such real understanding of life. I want try to add anything to that, but just to dwell on it for a while. Thank you!

Who dat do dat, but Steve Urkel says,"Did I do that."

Reciprocal actions are important to social psychology as they can help explain the maintenance of social norms. If a sufficient proportion of the population interprets the breaking of a social norm by another as a hostile action and if these people are willing to take (potentially costly) action to punish the rule-breaker then this can maintain the norm in the absence of formal sanctions. The punishing action may range from negative words to complete social ostracism. It is possible that a person can be ganged up on, even if his/her belief's are more principled than the norm in the group.

"The principle of reciprocity simply says that you get what you give. The manner, style, and level you use to engage people will determine how they respond to you." ~ Phillip C. McGraw I think of social reciprocity as the understanding of things in a mutual sense. I am a firm believer in standing up, speaking out, and talking back. This can be pretty disturbing to other people, who are used to getting their way. But, I figure that if they can't take what they dish out they need to be a little disturbed. In fact I feel that they may have been disturbed before they talked to me. Some people

Thanks e_s! I liked old Hank, and Jr. too! But, my hair an't curley and my eyes an't blue no more. My hair's almost white, and my glasses are so think you can't see my eyes. My spelling an't worth a sheeze either.

Carrying on an old family tradition is, indeed, the answer to that. But, to be successful in anything we must carry on better old family traditions, unless we want to live as few years as Old Hank. 29 is just not long in this old world. I was 29 when my first wife died, at 27. Boy, did I miss her. Children needs a mother, not just any mother but their mother. I was only a mf, with two kids. I had to learn to do things that I had never done, real fast. That's one reason that I say, "I don't care what you've heard, what you believe, what you learned in school, or even how you think thi

allllllrightythen, Laura!

Relativity throws me every time I try to relate to it. How are you, this fine 2011 that is going on around us, CeeJay?

Time is both BC and AD. Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls.

When I had cancer, I found that I had been depending on external sources of support; the kindness of other people to make me feel better, while I was ignoring a lot of what I could do for myself. I have sense discovered that a man with character falls back on himself when he faces a crisis, a lot more than I did. "Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself." ~ Charles De Gaulle I was depending on the wind to blow, and was not rowing. But, now I know to row. "If there is no wind, row." ~ Latin Proverb I thought that the only thing I could depend on was

You're right! I was reading about a tribe of people that had been dying in their younger years, and researchers had discovered that the early deaths of these people was due to something in the ground. They told these people that if they moved they could start expecting to live at least 30 or 40 more years. But, only a small number of the tribe took the advise and moved. The researchers asked why the ones who wouldn't move had rather die young than to live many more years by moving to another place. They said that they had rather stay where they were, because it was familiar to them.

I have found that I think and feel things, which I have never allowed to come out, and that I have never acted on. I fill like a new 'ME'. I understand gay people for wanting to come out of the closet. It's a shame to fear the judgment of other people, so much, that you have to hide like you're some kind of criminal. Well, got to got, again!

My grandfather was healthy, even though he smoked two pack of Camels a day. I used to here him talk about how healthy he was, and his fool doctor wanting him to stop smoking. But, he died of lung cancer at 54 years old. It's been so long ago I can laugh about it now!

I'm back for a minute, I am finished getting ready for my appointment. Allow me to add that I have been sitting on the side line in constant fear of failing to please those who forever seem to stand in judgment of 'ME'. Well; got to go!

So, all of our doctors are wrong. They must be working for the government when they tell us the truth (what they call the truth)about the food we eat??????

I have been reading a book called "SELF MATTER." It has inspired me to think a little different than traditionalists would have me to think. I have discovered that there is a 'ME' that has never even seen the light of day. There are parts of 'ME' that I have never met. I will talk more about this, later, but for now I must get ready for an appointment. I just wanted to get it started.

Very good information, and as Tony the Tiger would say: "GRRRRRRRRRREAT!" This is GREAT information for anyone who wants awareness of the facts surrounding how the FDA really works. We tend to blame the government, but we actually voted into public offices the people representing us. What the people, who are supposed to representing us, do is to actually represent Corporate interests. I use the oppression of Native Americans, and slaves, to explain how our government works. The difference is that we voted the oppressors into public office on a belief that they would be represent

One side of government just says NO, however, to every U.S. citizen but the rich corporations. This side of government knew that people making $200,000 or less, a year, would still get the Bush tax cuts, but they were willing to hold that back until the rich corporations were able to keep their tax cut too. They spent another $900 billion for the rich to be able to keep heir bush tax cut.

I stand by my signature!

He was bored, and had a large bored audience. But, I was bored right along with everyone else. I have been eating 100% Whole Wheat Bread for over 40 years.