Hi:
When I joined for this forum, I mentioned that I have not done Internet social networking, and my jury was out for some time on responding to “friendship” requests. Well, today, I got this message, from somebody who sent me a friendship request that I had yet to respond to:
“Neither xxx or yyy felt a need to refuse a hand extended in friendship. To me, I will always remember what a snob you were.”
I am from a different generation, and “friendship” requests in an Internet setting strike me as somewhat foolish. My father told me when I was a young man that if I made two true friends in my life, I would be doing well. Many years later, I see the wisdom in that statement. I will no longer be receiving or responding to friendship requests at Avalon or any future forums that I participate in. I think I turned off the feature on my profile, but we will see if it worked.
I think it was at Facebook, about the only time I ever visited it a few years ago, that I looked up Quincy Jones and he had about 250,000 “friends.” How ridiculous. Social networking on the Internet is seen by my generation as kind of strange. I suppose that all younger generations see the older ones as stuck and behind the times, and that is their right. Because I have been on the front lines, I have a lot of respect for what Bill has done and he would be welcome in my home, but I have not “friended” him, nor has he done so with me.
I have a soft spot in my heart for quite a few of the posters in this forum, and together we may be able to start something that can make a difference. We will see where this all leads us.
Right now, I am in daily agony about what is happening in Japan. I would like to wave my wand and shut all of those reactors down. Humanity might be getting the message about how crazy nuclear energy is, and I would like to think that we do not need any more displays of its dangers. However, I still see talking heads, even in “alternative” radio, saying that whatever the outcome of the Japanese crisis is, we should still keep pursuing nuclear energy because we have no choice. Statements like that tell me how far we have to go. I am looking for all the level 12s that I can find, or those who can get there with a little help:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#chart
Best wishes,
Wade