homeless people are people too

even though one would never guess that from all the abusive comments to follow....

 

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!

*Hugs & Kisses*

 

ummmm, thanks? lol. i take it this has something to do w/the fact that i said your turtle (in your gallery) is way cute (you never told me what it likes to eat?). lol.

jenny

 

you've learnt more about life in twenty one years than most of us go through in a lifetime and along the way you have developed skills that you will be able to put to good use, for others that have ended up in your situation- I hope your life continues to go from strengh to strengh
blessings
S

 

one of my bestest friends is homeless right now. nothing i can do to help him

 

i get ya. but don't go and glorify being homeless now.

 

thank you! i do feel way lucky to be alive. the streets are so violent. and there are so many ways to self-destruct. i don't blame the ones that jumped off of bridges, or overdosed on drugs. because it is a really hard way to live. i just wish there were more social programs for runaways. but GWB took away most of the funding. yet continues to give tax breaks to the rich? he's such a nice christian fellow, huh? i wonder how long he would last on the streets? maybe a week (at most)? thank you again! for all your kind words. and compassion.

jenny

 

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highly debatable. the first time was a choice. how can you be addicted to something before you even try it. you saying drug abuse is hereditary?

 

some drug abuse is hreditary.. thats why people fear for others when they know their family was alcoholics and they go off drinking... yea.. everything at first is a choice... but hell sooner or later if you believe in that choice it can be hurtful and thus become an addiction or disease... just like eating disorders.. people start out thinking that its gonna help them.. thats a choice.. but soon it consumes you.. and becomes a disease

 

the voice of reason, at last! you're my hero! anybody that thinks somebody would "choose" to be an addict, is either a major GWB supporter (sure don't want to have to pay higher taxes to help low life scum drug addicts get healthy, and live productive lives), or else they get some kind of warped sense of superiority by deluding themselves into thinking that only "weak" people get hooked to drugs.

so was Betty Ford weak? she managed to turn her life around, and is helping thousands of other addicts to live more healthy and sane lives. addiction is not a weakness. it is an illness. and it tends to run in families. alot like mental illness. but I guess it is so much easier to feel superior, and play the blame game. plus save a few bucks on taxes. shame on anybody that would place more value on money than on human lives. that's my two cents. and i am grateful that not everybody here is so selfish and judging. you are one of the rare compassionate ones. thank you for saying what i have been trying to say. only you said it so much better.

much peace and love to you,

jenny

 

I didn't read any of that, but they are homeless.

 

Welcome to the forums little sister.

 

Complete rubbish. Besides heresay, where's the evidence? for every person you come up with that fell into the trap that their parents did, i can come up with people who did the opposite because they didn't want to fall into the same trap.

Classic. who mentioned that? having fun putting words in peoples mouths? only "weak" people can't get off them. you have no idea what i battled with so if i were you i'd step with caution with your next reply

perhaps you shouldn't worry about who feels superior, but rather you should be worried about your inferiority complex. stop playing victim.

 

Yeah, it's been a long running debate.

Scientists tend to think a propensity for addiction is hereditary.

recovering addicts disagree with this because in the back of their minds they're hoping someday they'll be able to use with impunity.

 

she's not playing victim, she's talking about a time in her life that was very difficult and that she managed to get through, just because you have battled with something?? drugs, doesn't mean that people can't have an opinon that differs to yours.
Anonymousgurl21 is obvousily very concerned about drug abuse and victims of being homless, she has some strong views, which could be idealistic, but hey at least she isn't putting people down.
in an open discussion board, people can't step with caution, if they don't have any idea of what you have been through, why so much anger towards a person, who is trying to promote some understanding?
its one thing disagreeing, but seeing as you've taken to attack, without any background imformation on yourself, its leaves me completly baffled about what you are argueing about.
also why did you shorten her name to gurl in the quotes, that isn't her name
S

 

I know alot of veitnam vets. If I ever said to them "Ok, here's what
I would have done if I were in the bush" I'd get slapped, and rightly so.

 

Well good. It's a hell of an education. If you make it through you'll learn the only things you have a right to feel when you look at the other people there are respect or pity.

(then again you may learn to be a sanctomonous asshole like me but that takes a special talent )

 

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I'll trip someone.