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jiminycricket1 73M
5404 posts
5/22/2018 11:08 am
Sayonara..


I'm getting ready to go.... It's not going to be with a bang, but a whimpers... Almost everybody here is looking for agreement or disagreement.. I look for neither.
I do challenge people... everyone equally....and within an instant ..can tell if they accept my challenge or refuse it.
There were two people here who I KNEW accepted it... Leaf and TX....They didn't have to tell me.. I knew.
TX is best one..because he can even deny it... but my last poem...he gave a two word response "Stop that"...My gosh, I have never been more grateful for a response...It said it all.......All that I wanted and All I needed....
Leaf said.. I was one of the reason he was still here.. Most of you don't get it, because you won't think about it.....I don't close doors. I try to open them..leaf understood it.
Leaf departure.. is a challenge to me also...there's more to life than dealing with this.. so for the time being "Sayonara"....
I never challenged Leaf about it... That's not me...I don't do that... If i can't say it to your face. I won't say it behind your back..
So ET...under your breathe you can say "good riddens"....And have a chance to develop your own "little minions".. like maisie does......you see, LIZ doesn't understand jealousy he thinks it's about him.... but I do.....I've seen it for the last 15 years.. in you... I've seen how you operate....underhanded...You'll NEVER live down "elgible" and before that.. all your "little minions".. You were maisie before there even was a maisie.. You were an Adolpho, before than even was an Adolpho....And you are a Liz, before ...Liz even knows what a LIZ is.


jiminycricket1 73M
13732 posts
5/22/2018 11:16 am

So you see......I'm giving up.. here.......
Certainly I'm confused....What can you do.. When people Choose to believe lies.
Tell the truth.. good luck with that....because people who choose to believe lies.. don't have a clue what the meaning of the truth is.

Signed... Confused and Pretentious


jiminycricket1 73M
13732 posts
5/22/2018 11:26 am

So you see.. believe it...... if you must..
That ET ran me off... exposed me for what i am.....Did you all a favor...

She's a psychiatrist you know? She has a lot of insight..
I'm leaving ...you all in good hands. The psychiatrist and the professor.. what more could you ask for.. maybe a little truth?


bijou624

5/22/2018 11:29 am

Maybe it's time we all took a break if this group is upsetting us. The insults in this group are so heartless. Lisst just called me a 'loser' for believing something I saw on the news. You will never convince me that Earthy is herself, Elgible, Lisst, Massie and Don.


jiminycricket1 73M
13732 posts
5/22/2018 12:05 pm

    Quoting bijou624:
    Maybe it's time we all took a break if this group is upsetting us. The insults in this group are so heartless. Lisst just called me a 'loser' for believing something I saw on the news. You will never convince me that Earthy is herself, Elgible, Lisst, Massie and Don.
I'm not trying to convince you of anything... just like I'm not trying to convince any body Trump is EVIL..believe what you want... But the deal. but don't let let agreement or disagreement get in the way of the truth....Don't let what you want to believe.... make it true..

I DON'T WANT TO BELIEVE... ANYTHING I BELIEVE..
It's just the truth ways too heavy, on what I want to believe.
So I don't want to believe what ET is ....or Lizst or maisie , or Adolpho.. I don't want to believe it.. I get no pleasure from believing it..
And I'd keep it to myself...If they won't believe.... what they want to believe... about me.
I tell them.. I explain to them.. i'm not disagreeing or agreeing.. that 's an affront to them...That 's not what they want to hear...that's not what they want to believe..So I must be lying.. Sorry .. I DON"T LIE.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
5/22/2018 1:25 pm

I feel for you......your frustration of failing to communicate......This site is limited.....It is what it is and demanding something else is futile......I also have the experience on this site of being tangential to the norm and my intent being misunderstood. When Maisie labels me and places me according to her narrow understanding, like a Bridezilla with a seating-chart, and states that only those on the "Left" are offended, for instace.... I used my life experience to illustrate instances where I observed and experienced Conservatives being offended to the point of demanding my work and that of others be removed from public view. Both she and Liszt interpreted my comment as me bragging that I was a World-Class artist and patting myself on the back.....no acknowledgement whatsoever that it was illustrative of Conservatives being offended...

Now, was their response an unconscious or conscious attempt to refute my point? Was it a deliberate ploy to steer their supporters from a reality that has been reported in the media as long as there has been controversial art?........Who knows, and I don't care. What their response does is re enforce their deep need to dominate....to be right, to deliberately distract from their bigotry. To them, this little, insignificant site is their only arena and they are partners in a contest they are creating, defending and re enforcing.........Small frogs and all that.....kinda sad eh?


lilium6 74F
4498 posts
5/22/2018 4:45 pm

Even though my input (blogs) minimal, I find your blogs/contributions refreshing because they challenge thought as well as being highly entertaining at times (your quirky humour/sense of fun). Thank you, enjoy the break, take care


Rocketship 79F
18528 posts
5/22/2018 5:53 pm

I don't always comment on your blogs, but I agree with Lilium!!


looklook 84M
3925 posts
5/22/2018 7:58 pm

Jiminy. I shall miss your poems! Stay happy and cheerful always.


jiminycricket1 73M
13732 posts
5/23/2018 2:18 am

    Quoting sparkleflit:
    I feel for you......your frustration of failing to communicate......This site is limited.....It is what it is and demanding something else is futile......I also have the experience on this site of being tangential to the norm and my intent being misunderstood. When Maisie labels me and places me according to her narrow understanding, like a Bridezilla with a seating-chart, and states that only those on the "Left" are offended, for instace.... I used my life experience to illustrate instances where I observed and experienced Conservatives being offended to the point of demanding my work and that of others be removed from public view. Both she and Liszt interpreted my comment as me bragging that I was a World-Class artist and patting myself on the back.....no acknowledgement whatsoever that it was illustrative of Conservatives being offended...

    Now, was their response an unconscious or conscious attempt to refute my point? Was it a deliberate ploy to steer their supporters from a reality that has been reported in the media as long as there has been controversial art?........Who knows, and I don't care. What their response does is re enforce their deep need to dominate....to be right, to deliberately distract from their bigotry. To them, this little, insignificant site is their only arena and they are partners in a contest they are creating, defending and re enforcing.........Small frogs and all that.....kinda sad eh?
We talk to same to same people and we listen to the same people....everybody communicates equally in their way..... But people don't listen, that's the problem .
I talk to myself a lot.. and invite people to listen into that conversation. That's my way of communicating here.. I have my PREFERENCES of how people communicate.. I think Katie is pretty damn near perfect, Skariff is very logical, very truthful...but maybe a little too dry... although..I like it when he gets ornery..
Tx.. is a lot smarter than he lets on.. Rentier may be a little too smart for his britches... leaf is serious and funny, all at the same time. For Everyone I have mentioned it's not one blog or one blog response..... it's overall.. and it's my listening and understanding and their consistency.. that is rarely thwarted by hypocrisy, or untruths...
therse are people I prefer, but everyone communicates with me.. I listen to Lizst, maisie, You and ET..... Everyone communicates TO Me... No matter HOW they communicate it......For me it's simply a one way street..they talk... i listen

Communication FROM me...that's a different story. when you don't understand.. that's my fault... I lack communication skills..I don't dismiss that .. but I surely dismiss the idea that it's NOT a two way street..

so I ask.. what's the point in challenging someone's communication skills?.. WTF does that mean?.....if they don't have them.. then what 's the point of telling them....that the rub....., because you'er not telling them you're telling everyone.. In that sense ..not having commutation skills mean your lying or hiding something....anybody who would read, just the comment.. would think I speak in some foreign language.. Jumbled words that don't make sense Confused and confusing..simply not being able to put words together to communicate at all.

In my final analysis... If I got to have communication skills that FIT people listening skills.. I can't do it
I can agree I don't HAVE very good typing skills, grammars skills and structure skills. and for sure.. I don't plan ahead.. I use metaphors, double word meanings , and humor to make it easier and less in your face.... but still... it's not your ability to listen... it's my communications skills.... I shoot from the hip and NEVER take aim... It is what it is....if that doesn't fit your communication style .. so be it.
But the accusation alone, says far more... than what you are accusing.
Especially when you jump on the bandwagon, with someone who can't put two true sentences together.,, and more importantly has done the same thing to YOU.
Please don't empathize with me... empathize with yourself..


jiminycricket1 73M
13732 posts
5/23/2018 12:52 pm

    Quoting bijou624:
    Maybe it's time we all took a break if this group is upsetting us. The insults in this group are so heartless. Lisst just called me a 'loser' for believing something I saw on the news. You will never convince me that Earthy is herself, Elgible, Lisst, Massie and Don.
Well.. I do lack some communication skills....Don't know how to say things without saying them.. My beliefs are assumption.. I don't say.. don't think I need to,, but there are times I do
ET is NOT maisie, elgible, Lizst, o Adolpho.. she's her own person.. It's hard to describe character attributes to people, without labeling them in the entirety....
So.. ET is.....but then again she isn't.... For Me.. that goes without saying, Somebody is nobody else, and Nobody can't be somebody else...
But In the world here of labels, personifications, sides, and agendas.. It needs to be said....

It's the "Deep State" and "Trumpsters"... It's so pernicious.. to believe in that cookie cutter mentality.. that "those people" are all alike... big minions in a little minions world..... Sharing attributes... that make them nothing more than the attributes they share.
A Robotic absurdity....in a human world...
It's the basis of our problems.. our problem with racism, partisanship, the inability to communicate, to compromise, and the NEED to be Right... US against them.. where "them" are but Robots not People.. And no matter who they are.. YOU have nothing IN COMMON with them..


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
5/23/2018 1:05 pm

    Quoting jiminycricket1:
    We talk to same to same people and we listen to the same people....everybody communicates equally in their way..... But people don't listen, that's the problem .
    I talk to myself a lot.. and invite people to listen into that conversation. That's my way of communicating here.. I have my PREFERENCES of how people communicate.. I think Katie is pretty damn near perfect, Skariff is very logical, very truthful...but maybe a little too dry... although..I like it when he gets ornery..
    Tx.. is a lot smarter than he lets on.. Rentier may be a little too smart for his britches... leaf is serious and funny, all at the same time. For Everyone I have mentioned it's not one blog or one blog response..... it's overall.. and it's my listening and understanding and their consistency.. that is rarely thwarted by hypocrisy, or untruths...
    therse are people I prefer, but everyone communicates with me.. I listen to Lizst, maisie, You and ET..... Everyone communicates TO Me... No matter HOW they communicate it......For me it's simply a one way street..they talk... i listen

    Communication FROM me...that's a different story. when you don't understand.. that's my fault... I lack communication skills..I don't dismiss that .. but I surely dismiss the idea that it's NOT a two way street..

    so I ask.. what's the point in challenging someone's communication skills?.. WTF does that mean?.....if they don't have them.. then what 's the point of telling them....that the rub....., because you'er not telling them you're telling everyone.. In that sense ..not having commutation skills mean your lying or hiding something....anybody who would read, just the comment.. would think I speak in some foreign language.. Jumbled words that don't make sense Confused and confusing..simply not being able to put words together to communicate at all.

    In my final analysis... If I got to have communication skills that FIT people listening skills.. I can't do it
    I can agree I don't HAVE very good typing skills, grammars skills and structure skills. and for sure.. I don't plan ahead.. I use metaphors, double word meanings , and humor to make it easier and less in your face.... but still... it's not your ability to listen... it's my communications skills.... I shoot from the hip and NEVER take aim... It is what it is....if that doesn't fit your communication style .. so be it.
    But the accusation alone, says far more... than what you are accusing.
    Especially when you jump on the bandwagon, with someone who can't put two true sentences together.,, and more importantly has done the same thing to YOU.
    Please don't empathize with me... empathize with yourself..
Jiminy.....when I use the word "communicate", I'm assuming the meaning to be "to transmit information, thought, or feeling so that it is satisfactorily received or understood."......The transmission or the reception on it's own is not communication. I have struggled with this all my life......I lived for many years in a place where there was often a weather phenomena caused by a strong outflow wind from a nearby inlet, called Bute Inlet.....the unique phenomena was known micro-locally by boaters as a "Bute"....Only 20 miles away, I stood up in front of a group of land-lubbers and read/perfomed a poem....an ode to the Bute........and the only perceptible response was blank stares.........I asked how many knew what a Bute was.......nothing.....so that was a flat bust.........local boaters love that poem........


jiminycricket1 73M
13732 posts
5/24/2018 1:39 am

I see things a little different.. when I write poetry..Knowing or not the meaning of A word.. should make only a minor difference.... When i write... specifically knowing the "word" doesn't matter the poetry creates the word not the word creating the poetry.... I love using words with double meaning...where the poetry tells the meaning of the word, instead of the word telling the meaning of the poetry.


bijou624

5/24/2018 6:47 am

Jiminy, please don't think you have to leave or take a break from the group just because you wrote this blog. You have many friends here and if you think about it there are only a few people who have insulted you. I know that logging in and getting insulted can really hurt, and that's the reason not many even participate in our blogs. Take a break if you have to but hurry back.


jiminycricket1 73M
13732 posts
5/24/2018 11:19 am

    Quoting sparkleflit:
    Jiminy.....when I use the word "communicate", I'm assuming the meaning to be "to transmit information, thought, or feeling so that it is satisfactorily received or understood."......The transmission or the reception on it's own is not communication. I have struggled with this all my life......I lived for many years in a place where there was often a weather phenomena caused by a strong outflow wind from a nearby inlet, called Bute Inlet.....the unique phenomena was known micro-locally by boaters as a "Bute"....Only 20 miles away, I stood up in front of a group of land-lubbers and read/perfomed a poem....an ode to the Bute........and the only perceptible response was blank stares.........I asked how many knew what a Bute was.......nothing.....so that was a flat bust.........local boaters love that poem........

There's a "lighter" side to "Bute".. that is if you need a "lighter"...

She a "bute", He's a "bute" or it's a "bute".... even a 'bute" could be a "bute"
that is.. if one thinks facetiously, and genderless

The meaning of "butte" could be.. "one if by land and two if by sea."
that is is you "revere" words.. that is... if you listen to words and not read into them..

I think horses should take "bute" far more seriously than humans.

"By the "bute"... by the "bute".. by the beautiful sea
You and me....You and me .. OH how happy we'd be"

The question is... am I communicating?....Is he or is he not...or is it just Memorex..
Is it just too confusing? ...or Is a "bute" just pointless?....


jiminycricket1 73M
13732 posts
5/24/2018 12:38 pm

    Quoting bijou624:
    Jiminy, please don't think you have to leave or take a break from the group just because you wrote this blog. You have many friends here and if you think about it there are only a few people who have insulted you. I know that logging in and getting insulted can really hurt, and that's the reason not many even participate in our blogs. Take a break if you have to but hurry back.
Thank you.. what I'm going to say is not specifically about YOU.. It's about me..and ALL of US

I'm going to San Diego , for my 50th reunion.. In June..

The irony of getting old.... is one has to force themselves to get out of "bad" habits

So they can created new "bad' habits.

You got to realize stuff about yourself.. Like Me... I got an incurable compulsive disorder....
I have noticed that ruts only seems to get bigger?
and the Only way to fill a rut.. Is to start a new rut....

I wish I could "blame" you folks.. but I can't...... It's never really been about "you folks".. It's always been about me.. I talk to myself..... Now that could be bad thing.. talking to yourself.. but it's not..... if you "listen"!
The lesson: You can't change me.. I can't change you.. I got to "change" myself.
Now, if I haven't already shat in my diaper...I'm sure you can find some... If that's what you're looking for.... For me.. It always "in sight"... if that's what you're looking for .


jiminycricket1 73M
13732 posts
5/25/2018 10:13 am

Reigns of Expectation

Took the reigns of expectation
to ride the bi-ways of life
Roadblocks to my destination
that were unyielding and strife

Then abandoned the reins
And lost the will
Escaped the stress
by just standing still....

Again to take up the reins
Emancipated without regret
Found a horse I could ride
and rode into the sunset


sewg1941 82F

5/26/2018 2:58 pm

Chill for a bit Jiminy ... this place is relatively painless in small doses with a good break in between! This place is too sick for a steady diet! I always read you... rarely comment on anything.