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[sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net>]

EarthNSky wrote:
> Thank you for sharing that. I will bow to your knowledge of these types
> of pacifist societies and will respectfully not post any more of my
> opinions.
>
>   
Feel free to post any opinion you like :-) .  Guaranteed I've been 
subjected to worse already, so pretty impervious by now!  If you'd like 
to be on the butt end of a little discrimination try growing up as one 
of a family of 21 OODunkard (common name for our group) kids and going 
out into the world dressed 'funny', talking 'funny', and having no clue 
whatsoever you're doing, or, for more fun, try raising an autistic kid 
before the diagnosis was common, much less one with a halo and 
respirator, looking like a nonhuman for years (dog bite), and a desire 
to go into the Marine Corps (said 'kid' made it into and through the 
Marine Corps and is now on active duty as an ATC with the VA Air 
National Guard).  That'll land ya some rocks!

I've never been much swayed nor 'damaged' by what others think, and 
indeed much prefer an honest opinion to any sort of 'working around the 
issue', as it was called in eastern VA. 

One of the things I like about living where I do is that people state 
their opinions, flat out, some rudely (and I don't see any need to be 
rude) but most simply stating facts.  There are none of the sorts of 
things I had to cope with living in some other places, which were 
considered polite behavior there, but to me it's just plain ridiculous 
for someone to tiptoe all over the place trying to say something they 
think I don't want to hear. 

I don't like my facts distorted and am quick usually to correct that, 
but beyond that, if I don't want to hear it, it's my problem, not 
theirs, unless they want something from me, so when people start putzing 
around, I always wonder what they want.....If they have something to 
say, say it.  Doesn't mean I'm gonna agree.  But that shouldn't matter 
any more to them than the other way 'round.  Not saying, Bev, that I 
think you personally do that.  This is just when/where the subject came up.

I'm well aware that I'm odd man out.  I've been pummeled from one side 
and another, several times over.  So far it's not keeping me awake at 
night :-) .  So lay it out any way you see it.

SJ