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To Whom it May Concern

I was waiting for someone else to say it but it does not look like anyone else had.

Maybe they did not think they should but I felt it important for my other friends to know this as well. All fences are mended between Texastar (chi wah wah lover{I write it like this because I cannot spell it}) Elkhound and I.

All of this happened because of stupid debates. While the debates themselves were not stupid everyone involved, including the people not mentioned here are all guilty of taking things way to personally and I am not exempt from that.

Remember folks you can say to someone, “That is the stupidest thing I ever heard.” And not say you are the,”stupidest person I ever met.”

Likewise the phrase does not mean they think you are stupid just whatever you said was.

Everyone has something valuable to offer not matter what their beliefs, biases, affiliations, orientation, profession etc.

So far here at mybloggers the only time I have seen anyone attack someone was me and I apologized for it immediately. I believe it was justmyopinion. I am still sorry for that.

Remember even when you disagree with someone you can still state your case without name calling or personal attacks. In fact, say you are a Christian (I am just using this as an example no one person is in this thought) and you want someone who is gay to find Christ. You will never get that outcome if you focus on him or her being gay but instead introduce him to Christ and leave his sexuality between he and God. You can insert any thing there instead of gay….pagan….Muslim….transvestite…conspiracy nut :p amerigobard) what have you. You can still debate with him with out calling names and when you feel the word faggot or “why would you care you are gay” ready to slide off your tongue. Take 24 hours to wait before you reply. Then you have had time to rationalize and you hot blood time to cool. This is a lesson I learned long ago but often times I ignore because those foolish things I have said seem so much more important at the time then you wake up having lost a friend or maybe more.

Sometimes people will disagree with you and there is nothing you will ever be able to say to change their mind and that is when you have to decide to I accept this one thing about him to still have all the things I love? Or is this one thing so bad that I cannot enjoy the things that make him wonderful. Keeping in mind acceptance does not mean approval.


The bickering that was going on between we three was never worth a very good friendship being torn apart.

posted on May 3, 2008 9:01 AM ()

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Who knew?
comment by kristilyn3 on May 14, 2008 11:05 AM ()
we can all learn a lesson or two from what has been going on between ya'll. I'm happy that the tides are turning and everyone is being adult enough to step back and take a breath and realize what is really important in life!
As for me, I take the acronym "QTip" to heart....it stands for Quit Taking It Personally!
Hugs to ya'll!
comment by dakmom on May 13, 2008 6:18 AM ()
This is great Holly, boy am I out of the loop!
comment by teacherwoman on May 7, 2008 5:47 AM ()
Way to go, Holly. I hope there will never be any nasty debates here on MyBloggers as there sometimes were on Blogster. When I was a philosophy major we called such nonsense "ad hominem" arguments, and they were considered fallacious. I'm glad the fences have been mended.
comment by beedith on May 4, 2008 10:13 PM ()
comment by mellowdee on May 4, 2008 12:20 PM ()
It is very easy to resort to personalized name calling and defamation in this blogland format, always and ever sight unseen; but fortunately, very few people are doing so on purpose and with any real malice of forethought. The best remedy is to just laugh and chuckle it away, knowing that your words had a deep affect upon someone - for good, or bad!!!!!
comment by oldfatguy on May 3, 2008 5:19 PM ()
Chi wah wah. Hard to type, so I write it: el quiero Taco Bell dog.
comment by jondude on May 3, 2008 3:36 PM ()
Happy to see that bridges are mending.
comment by redimpala on May 3, 2008 3:03 PM ()
Thank you for chatting with me in the chat room and being open to me. I went in there last night wanting to be able to talk with both of you. This is a wonderful post Holly and major kudos to you!! I too am guilty of things I have said and done that were hurtful to you, to Mary, and too others and I am truly sorry and I mean that in the sincerest way. Again, I can't thank you enough and again, I am sorry for hurting you!!

Oh chi wah wah is hard to spell. We had one when I was a kid too and the way I taught myself to spell it was to sound it out like it is spelled. It goes chi hua hua = chihuahua.
comment by texastar on May 3, 2008 2:48 PM ()
I was honored to be there with you ladies. I hate that I had to leave but the weather here was bad. We sat in the dark for about 2 hours. Holly I've always said this, but I'll say it again for all of those who read this...Your an amazing lady. *hugs*
comment by elfie33 on May 3, 2008 1:57 PM ()
You are a much more forgiving person than I am--I do not suffer fools lightly or those who try to defame me, falsely accuse me, call me names, try to put me down, etc., on a constant basis.
comment by greatmartin on May 3, 2008 10:25 AM ()
thank you for being the bigger person and mending all of the bridges. there was alot of hurt feelings that were released last night. I am a very emotional person and yes I do take things way too personally. I also have frequent bouts of foot in mouth syndrome.
comment by elkhound on May 3, 2008 9:52 AM ()
Good points, it seems like those steadfast in their beliefs sometimes let emotions drive the exchange, and we all know that at a high level of emotions, logic sometimes does not prevail. When I coached woman's basketball and we played a team that had a good player that was emotional and had a tendency to lose her temper, I told my players to play her physical until she did just that, lost her temper. It always worked, we took her head completely out of the game.
comment by strider333 on May 3, 2008 9:12 AM ()
Very well said.
comment by gapeach on May 3, 2008 9:09 AM ()

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