I'm not asking you to wash it. I'm asking you to drape it over your heater and use it as potpourri

The Buddha said, "Be a light unto yourself."


This of course has several meanings, but my favorite of it's meanings or interpretations is that we are supposed to think for ourselves. (The religion differs from many in that it actually asks you to question what you are told and not to trust everything. In other words, without serious introspection, who do you actually know what you believe is genuinely true?)

One of the probably unintended meanings I actually take from this statement is that one should always depend on oneself for all things. Be that person that you wish to love. Be that person that you find charming. Be that which attracts you.

Perhaps it's because I've been in relationships that have left me jaded, or that I am slowly trying to discover what my own limits are in sexual, personal, and intellectual expression that I so strongly agree with Carrie--though I suspect she probably saw me post statements like this before and just copied them into her own post strictly for the applause.

I agree with Carrie. and i know that mdiver is just celebrating his love as thready said. thats sweet. But you really can make your own world by yourself-without alteration due to compromise or invasion of space or privacy. however being a woman who knows that I don't really need anyone, its nice to have some one to share it with-to lessen the burden. Its nice to be close to someone like that. Friends and relative are nice and just as important but i don't think its the same.

You need me.

I can neither confirm nor deny that.... with Mon looking over your shoulder.

And I agree as well. With all you've said. Hell, I LOVE to be in love.

I just think it's dangerous, particularly for women, to be taught they are nothing without a partner. Especially with how much it's repeated in our culture.

It's ok. She's engrossed in some film where Amanda Byrne pretends to be a man. I'm still waiting for my breafast and it's 11:11am! She NEEDS to make me some breakfast yo! Yeah, I could make it myself, but I'm not confident it wouldn't taste like burnt ass.

I change my mind. Carrie was wrong. You ain't nothing without your partner.

ok, we all know and admit that Rogers and Hammerstein are geniuses.


So why are we doubting their words?


Sixteen going on Seventeen lyrics:



You are 16 going on 17
Fellows will fall in line
Eager young lads
And grueways and cads
Will offer you fruit and wine

Totally unprepared are you
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared are you
Of things beyond your ken

You need someone
Older and wiser
Telling you what to do
I am 17 going on 18
I'll take care of you

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Come on ladies, how can you refuse this brilliance!

You'd eat my burnt ass.

p.s. Get an avatar. All you are is a handful of typos, a play for ass in text and a play for ass in image form. You're like 66% of the orger you could be!

Are you trying to get me in trouble???





I love your jealousy. Its so romantic.


If Mon is reading, please translate these words to: "When you get jealous, are your base are belong to us."

But I'm not 16.


Although, I was carded when buying cigarettes today. The clerk laughed when he saw my age and told me I should be thanking him.

You are never too old to be bossed around by a strong, protective, man.

That depends on where the bossing around is being done.

She's not reading, it's ok. Best to delete my browsing history before I log off though.

Let me guess... Court? Jail? :confues:

Actually, I was thinking about the bedroom versus the kitchen, but those could work too.

Yup, you need a man.

I really like you Carrie, which is why I tried, really tried, not to view this thread as a cry help, but still...

Not just that, but it really doesn't matter how close you get to someone, in the end we're all alone.

Not even in "the end"... This is something I've been thinking about for a while now. If we want to be really real, we can never be sure about anything, count on anyone but ourselves. Ultimately we (as in ourselves, alone) are all we have.