homeless people are people too

well it gives you something to do I suppose. Can't you watch Corner Gas instead?

 

I'm going to attempt to sidestep the mudslinging for once. Unfortunately I participated to a considerable degree here and accomplished nothing of consequence... I'm going to do something I haven't seen very much of... I'm going to respond to the original post by anonymousgurl21.

First, I haven't said this directly, though I've alluded to it in a more venomous missive that I do admire that you've been able to begin getting your life together- congratulations on being clean and sober. I know about alcoholism. It takes a certain strength of character to be able to first acknowledge that there is a problem and second, to deal with that issue. I also know of dysfunctional families- kinda related to the above in my case. It absolutely sucks that your folks did what they did to you- that they held their religious fundamentalism higher than their responsibility to support their daughter in a time of crisis.

I don't know homelessness as intimately as you and am very glad of that. I'm not 100% confident that I'd be able to pull through it as well as you. I can see where the issue of homelessness would register higher on your priority scale than other folks. Considering what you've been through- and perhaps still going through, it's perfectly understandable where you would have a short fuse in dealing with folks who aren't very sensitive to the issue. Perhaps a few people here, myself included, would do well to be a bit more sensitive instead of engaging in the verbal slugfest that has taken place.

I am curious about where you might have taken this thread in the absence of the hostility? Do you believe that we need to be more aware of homelessness? Do you think we need to take a more aggressive role in dealing the issue or would it be better just to spend a bit of time and converse with a homeless person when we encounter them? Do we help every homeless individual or do we differentiate between those who chose to be homeless and those who ended up that way because of circumstances? I'd love to be able to help but I would want my efforts to make a tangible difference in someone's llife rather than enable them to more conveniently take a self-destructive life path. In many cases it has been an individual's own choices that landed them in the gutter- whos responsibility is it to help an addict or alcoholic?

As I wrote before, it's great that you've been able to get your life together; your actions were not something that should have landed you homeless; it's great that a giving soul (orientation does not matter) who saw you as someone worthy to offer a helping hand. What constructive thing can we come away from this thread with? Is it government's responsibility to set aside resources to shelter those who are without? Should regular folks give money? Food? Time? Is it enough for some folks to spend time talking with someone less fortunate- just for the sake of conversation- a simple act calculated to make a connection with a soul to reassure him (or her) that he (she) indeed is a worthy human being and not someone to be marginalized- that folks pretend is not there? Is the offering of a shred of dignity charity enough?

 

Bump...

I desire a thought out reply from anonymousgurl21 on this one.

 

See? Can't we all just get along?

We all care...

 

Do you know her personally?

I mean it almost seems like she screwed you over somehow. I don't understand the hostility this thread has spawned.

I really just wish the personal attacks would be conducted via PM in private, but that's just me.

I'll butt out now.

 

By all means continue.

 

thank you, kind sir. you are totally right. i would never stoop so low as to associate (in real life) with somebody like cooloner. but he has been stalking my thread, since the very start. as far as PM's go: he is too much of a weak exhibitionist for that. why insult me in private, when he can do so in public? a total class act, huh? he reminds me of ted bundy. *shudders* and he will keep coming back. because he is in love with me? even though he knows i think he should go crawl back under the rock he slithered out of. anyway, i thank you for your insight and concern. it was very sweet of you to defend me.

jenny

 

Um...

Fuck it dude, let's go bowling.

 

Is that you in your sig pic cause it looks like Nicole Kidman?

 

You noticed that too...

 

Birthday was over 27 minutes ago.

 

sounds like an awesome idea. and i'm not so bad at it. but you live more than 1,000 miles away from me. lol.

jenny

ps. plus i'm getting sleepy. i think i'll join my pussy cat on the couch. she actually nibbled on some of the fancy feast (tuna flavor) i gave her a few minutes ago. see, there's always hope for a better future. lol.

 

Oh for fucks sakes. Her pic looks like Nicole Kidamn.

 

let it go .... breathe ..... relax.

 

it was taken just a week or so ago. i did it on a dare. the water was freezing. and nicole kidman is not 21. even though i do think she is an awesome actress. her only mistake was hooking up w/tom (mr. scientology) cruise. luckily, she soon came to her senses. lol.

jenny

 

Oh cooloner and I agree that we hate tom cruise right brian?

 

SWEET!!!

That's my new name for Nicole Kidman...

Nicole Ki... DAMN!!!!!

 

ha ha ha ha oh this thread is a hoot!

 

seems like hatred is a way of life for some folks. it's so much harder to love.

jenny

 

hey this thread was getting fun .... where's hacker?