Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread Dana
Bible belt. Need I say more. I worked at the community college and really felt like I was on the front lines of the war against ignorance. Dana On 7/29/05, S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahh... "a new source of child porn" right? Yeah, my ex and I lived in > Jacksonville in 99/2K .

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Ahh... "a new source of child porn" right? Yeah, my ex and I lived in Jacksonville in 99/2K ... not a liberal or terribly well-informed town... the UU church there is awesome tho... > They investigated don't you know that the internet is > the devil's > work? That was Jacksonville Florida. Um

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
"It" being single mothers... took me a minute... > Ahem. I think it *can* be a good situation, but the > requirements for > this are such that it doesn't happen much. Obviously, the > more > caregivers, the more care a child gets. > Dana > On 7/29/05, Deanna Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread Dana
Ahem. I think it *can* be a good situation, but the requirements for this are such that it doesn't happen much. Obviously, the more caregivers, the more care a child gets. Dana On 7/29/05, Deanna Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wasn't trying to say that a single mother is a _good_ situat

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread Dana
already answered, I think. They did close the case once they came out. But merely being investigated is somewhat stressful. Quick, do you have a clean pillow-case? Milk in the fridge? Dana On 7/29/05, Ian Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > once for owning a computer... > > Dana > > That

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread Dana
They investigated don't you know that the internet is the devil's work? That was Jacksonville Florida. U around 1997. Dana On 7/28/05, S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > let's not forget being reported to child > > protective service half a dozen times... > > once for owning a

RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
>> -Original Message- >> From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 1:14 PM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety >> >> I had the "pleasure" of seeing him live >> last year

RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 1:14 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety > > I had the "pleasure" of seeing him live last year here in Boston > protesting t

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread Jerry Johnson
I had the "pleasure" of seeing him live last year here in Boston protesting the evil gay people. What a twit. On 7/29/05, William Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Saw a Phelps supporter throw an 11 year old child in front of a car at > a clinic once. ~~~

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread William Bowen
Saw a Phelps supporter throw an 11 year old child in front of a car at a clinic once. The car stopped. The kid looked at what I can only assume was his parent and then lay down on the driveway in front of the car. These people are real pieces o'work... Cripes. > > That would be the Rev. Fred Ph

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> That would be the Rev. Fred Phelpswhom I detest to > say, is a fellow Kansan. Yep, that's the one... Somehow I didn't expect "Kansan" ... I'd have thought Kansasite or maybe Kansite. s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread G
> Sorry I snapped... Yeah, it happens... like that anti-gay preacher in > the midwest... don't remember his name offhand, the "god hates fags" > guy... but I remember reading an article about him that said his > congregation mostly consisted of his own family... and of course, they > all contribute

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> That wasn't the community I was thinking of > - there's TONS of coops in Madison. In fact, > there's one right across the street from > my office. But, I wouldn't say that they're > necessarily intentional communities, by my > understanding of them. The coops tend to be > a group of folks that li

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> Stop trying to argue against a specific example > with a generality. (Or not.) > I just thought it was an interesting story that > happened to come about during this thread about > nuclear families vs communal groups. > Didn't mean to imply that you generality was > wrong, just that here was an

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread Deanna Schneider
That wasn't the community I was thinking of - there's TONS of coops in Madison. In fact, there's one right across the street from my office. But, I wouldn't say that they're necessarily intentional communities, by my understanding of them. The coops tend to be a group of folks that live in the same

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread Jerry Johnson
Stop trying to argue against a specific example with a generality. (Or not.) I just thought it was an interesting story that happened to come about during this thread about nuclear families vs communal groups. Didn't mean to imply that you generality was wrong, just that here was an example of no

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> Unless you watched Primetime last night, which > highlighted a community in Colorado (Colorado > Springs?) that embraces multiple marriages to > underage girls. It also highlighted a family > (of four wives and 56 kids) where the father > was a (known) child molester. > The behavior is not only

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread Jerry Johnson
Unless you watched Primetime last night, which highlighted a community in Colorado (Colorado Springs?) that embraces multiple marriages to underage girls. It also highlighted a family (of four wives and 56 kids) where the father was a (known) child molester. The behavior is not only tolerated, but

RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread Ian Skinner
once for owning a computer... Dana That sounds like it could be an interesting story... What was dangerous about owning a computer that had enough credit to require CPS' attention? -- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA "C code. C code

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> I wasn't trying to say that a single mother is a > _good_ situation - just that family dynamics are > complicated, and that in larger families > things can be even more complicated. Granted... But speaking in generalities, I suspect that it's easier for an abuse cycle to exist, continue and grow

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread Deanna Schneider
I wasn't trying to say that a single mother is a _good_ situation - just that family dynamics are complicated, and that in larger families things can be even more complicated. My mom used to work for child protective services. The court's party-line was that removing kids from homes should be a la

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-29 Thread Deanna Schneider
Yep - that's pretty much how our neighborhood functioned, too. Even if my parents were gone for the weekend, I knew damn well that I couldn't get away with anything, because all the neighbors would be watching. In our neighborhood of toddlers, the big thing is using the neighbor's potty. It's grea

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> let's not forget being reported to child > protective service half a dozen times... > once for owning a computer... Someone reported you to CPS for owning a computer? ... and CPS took it seriously? s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Dana
er... are not receiving an education. Gotta go. Dana On 7/28/05, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am going into a test but let's start with the idea that all > grandparents are sure their grandchildren are to receiving an > education, and go on from there... let's not forget being reported to

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Dana
I am going into a test but let's start with the idea that all grandparents are sure their grandchildren are to receiving an education, and go on from there... let's not forget being reported to child protective service half a dozen times... once for owning a computer... Dana On 7/28/05, S. Isaac

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> Sometimes it really sucks that this list has the public > web archives > and is search engine indexed and all that. Yeah, like whenever I open my big mouth. :) s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source fram

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> You need cheap land and a way to make a living there. > But you're wrong if you think homeschooling is an > easy-to-make and widely accepted choice. If I had a > nickel for every time I've heard about Andea Yates > or the alleged socialization issue, well, I might > not be rich, but I'd definite

RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> My wife and I are essentially doing hospice work > for her grandmother at this point. Her aunt is > morbidly obese, and we have to do pretty much > everything for her. My wife works nights and > I work days so that one of us can almost always > be here for the boys, especially with Finn's > pro

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> On 7/28/05, loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My wife's Aunt and Grandmother both live with >> us, and we have our two little boys. While >> there are times that it is nice, I personally >> would have to say that it makes things much >> more chaotic and difficult to manage. >> >> I mean if it

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> OK, I am humbled. You're right. This is a > friend of mine, and I am probably sounding > pretty unsympathetic. Isaac, please be in > touch if I can help. No you don't sound unsympathetic... if anything you sound unsurprisingly under-educated on the subject... that's not an insult at all, I'm ju

RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
>> Hell isn't other people... Hell is growing >> up with someone who believed it. >> >> Sorry... I'll stop now... > Shit man, It's a combination casette player and colostomy bag! I got a lot o' good ideas! Touble is most of 'em suck. > Don't stop. I know what it means to get > it out, and I re

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Dana
yes, there are definitely times that I bite my tongue because there are things I dont want to see show up on GOogle. Dana On 7/28/05, Kevin Graeme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes it really sucks that this list has the public web archives > and is search engine indexed and all that. > > On

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Kevin Graeme
Sometimes it really sucks that this list has the public web archives and is search engine indexed and all that. On 7/28/05, loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That wasn't my intention at all, and wasn't supposed to go to the list. > > Sorry, > > Tim

RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread loathe
rsday, July 28, 2005 3:37 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety > > > yeah but Isaac, children are stuck with the parents they are born to. > Sometimes better is all there is. > > But maybe I missed something. What are you advocating exactly? > S

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Dana
You need cheap land and a way to make a living there. But you're wrong if you think homeschooling is an easy-to-make and widely accepted choice. If I had a nickel for every time I've heard about Andea Yates or the alleged socialization issue, well, I might not be rich, but I'd definitely have mor

RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
No worries on this end... granted... now your phone number is googleable... :-/ > That wasn't my intention at all, and wasn't supposed to go > to the list. > Sorry, > Tim s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open

RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread loathe
/me calls verison real phone number, no never :) Tim > -Original Message- > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 5:56 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety > > > Good think you didn't i

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Dana
ROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 5:49 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety > > > > > > OK, I am humbled. You're right. This is a friend of mine, and I am > > probably sounding pretty unsympathetic. Is

RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread loathe
rsday, July 28, 2005 5:53 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety > > > yeah, but look at it this way, you've never had to figure out how to > buy a stamp while carry a sleeping six year old plus a sleeping four > year old. > > Maybe it

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Jerry Johnson
Good think you didn't include your REAL phone number in that reply to the list, huh? On 7/28/05, loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > doh, > > that umm.. > > nm ~| Purchase Captivate from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Au

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Dana
to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 3:37 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety > > > > > > yeah but Isaac, children are stuck with the parents they are born to. > > Sometimes better is all there is. > >

RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread loathe
That wasn't my intention at all, and wasn't supposed to go to the list. Sorry, Tim > -Original Message- > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 5:49 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety > > &

RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread loathe
doh, that umm.. nm Tim > -Original Message- > From: loathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 5:43 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety > > > > Hell isn't other people... Hell is growing up

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Dana
OK, I am humbled. You're right. This is a friend of mine, and I am probably sounding pretty unsympathetic. Isaac, please be in touch if I can help. Dana On 7/28/05, loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hell isn't other people... Hell is growing up with someone who > > believed it. > > > > Sor

RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread loathe
> Hell isn't other people... Hell is growing up with someone who > believed it. > > Sorry... I'll stop now... Shit man, Don't stop. I know what it means to get it out, and I really know where you're coming from. I don't want to say too much in return, just be here to listen this time. Like I s

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> hehe you're right about the shrinking of the > average bedroom. And about the limits on the > number of people living in a dwelling. One > of my favorite rants is about the law they > passed in Montgomry County mandating > three-bedroom apartments for every family. > This was for our own good, yo

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Dana
hehe you're right about the shrinking of the average bedroom. And about the limits on the number of people living in a dwelling. One of my favorite rants is about the law they passed in Montgomry County mandating three-bedroom apartments for every family. This was for our own good, you understand.

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Jerry Johnson
Sure, as an _adult_ I think it is great (unless I get stuck with kid duty for all the neighbors, then it gets a little much.) As a kid you ended up with 30 parents, and were always under someone's eye/thumb. (Of course, you also got 30 or so grandparents, which balanced out nicely. All the grandpa

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> Just a typical Connecticut neighborhood. Wish I'd grown up in connecticut. s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
>> Most people when you say "intentional communitie" or even "commune" ARGH! I do actually know how to spell "community"... I was in the process of changing "communities" to "community" and apparently accidentally hit the hotkey for "send". s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> children being raised by a community of adults. > I believe that the kibbutz is an example of > this. I am not aware of any particular > demonization of the form in the US, but I > haven't gone much beyond a room-mate or two. There are a few exceptions, hence the "intentional communities movemen

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Dana
hmm. I find the idea rather appealing, personally. Dana On 7/28/05, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Holy cow. I WISH I had less of an extended "family" growing up. > > Any of the neighbors had spanking privaliges for all the other kids. > As did any of my parents friends. > We never,

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Jerry Johnson
Holy cow. I WISH I had less of an extended "family" growing up. Any of the neighbors had spanking privaliges for all the other kids. As did any of my parents friends. We never, ever locked out doors. You could go into anyone's house and get a drink or a snack if you were playing in that area and n

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Dana
children being raised by a community of adults. I believe that the kibbutz is an example of this. I am not aware of any particular demonization of the form in the US, but I haven't gone much beyond a room-mate or two. Dana On 7/28/05, S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yeah but Isaac,

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> yeah but Isaac, children are stuck with the > parents they are born to. Sometimes better > is all there is. > But maybe I missed something. What are > you advocating exactly? Something like > the kibbutz model? By kibbutz do you mean this? http://www.kibbutzprogramcenter.org/ No... well... no

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Dana
yeah but Isaac, children are stuck with the parents they are born to. Sometimes better is all there is. But maybe I missed something. What are you advocating exactly? Something like the kibbutz model? Dana On 7/28/05, S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, if someone was going arou

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> Well, if someone was going around cleaning up your > father's landfill instead of say, kicking his ass > out of the house, said someone would be just another > member of a rather dysfunctional family, playing > the typical role of caretaker. > No offense intended - but I'm just trying to point >

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Deanna Schneider
Well, if someone was going around cleaning up your father's landfill instead of say, kicking his ass out of the house, said someone would be just another member of a rather dysfunctional family, playing the typical role of caretaker. No offense intended - but I'm just trying to point out that mayb

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> Hm, I'm not sure the that monogamy = disneyism. > I mean, I'm monogamous, but I have lots of > friends, each of whom fulfill a different role > for me. The only way in which I'm monogamous > is that only one tab A gets inserted into slot > B, so to speak. I'd agree that becoming insular > as a nu

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Deanna Schneider
Hm, I'm not sure the that monogamy = disneyism. I mean, I'm monogamous, but I have lots of friends, each of whom fulfill a different role for me. The only way in which I'm monogamous is that only one tab A gets inserted into slot B, so to speak. I'd agree that becoming insular as a nuclear family i

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
>> identify as bisexual), but I'm not going to tell >> them that it will be easy or that they will ever >> find that one person who fulfills them completely >> (which I think is a Disneyism anyway). >> >> I think monogamy might work a lot better in a >> culture in which families / communities were

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Jerry Johnson
Isn't that the whole thrust of this thread? On 7/28/05, Ben Doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The best relationship I ever had included her going out with the > girls regularly, and me geeking out with the boys. :-) ~| Find out h

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Ben Doom
> identify as bisexual), but I'm not going to tell them that it will be > easy or that they will ever find that one person who fulfills them > completely (which I think is a Disneyism anyway). > > I think monogamy might work a lot better in a culture in which > families / communities were more inv

RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
You should read this article, it's a riot! http://www.nerve.com/regulars/lifeswork/bonobo/ Okay, I think primates (with the exception of humans) are ugly as sin, but we should have more bonobo politicians! :) We can have orgies instead of filibusters. Put congress on pay-per-view to replace the I

RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Food fetish? :) > OMG > /me falls over in a faint from the inuendos > ##| -Original Message- > ##| From: Marlon Moyer > ##| > ##| Yeah, bad analogy because I love to eat > ##| icing straight from the bowl. s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add feat

RE: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Erika L Walker-Arnold
OMG /me falls over in a faint from the inuendos ##| -Original Message- ##| From: Marlon Moyer ##| ##| Yeah, bad analogy because I love to eat icing straight from ##| the bowl. # ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading Co

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Marlon Moyer
Yeah, bad analogy because I love to eat icing straight from the bowl. On 7/28/05, Ben Doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I dated a bisexual woman for a while. She didn't (that I remember) tell > me who she preferred, but based on the relationships I know about > (preceeding and following me) I'm

Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: bi-anxiety

2005-07-28 Thread Ben Doom
I dated a bisexual woman for a while. She didn't (that I remember) tell me who she preferred, but based on the relationships I know about (preceeding and following me) I'm pretty sure it's men. Anyway, I looked at it this way: For me, relationships aren't about sex. Sex is like icing on the cak