I had to think about that for a second.
Good rule.

Hey Therese – You’re making us think too hard when our brains (I’ll speak for myself)my brains are already fried from this ho-ho-holiday season! However,like Larry, I got it after I thought about it for a second!

I’n sitting here feeling pretty dumb, because even after pondering, I don’t think I get it! I’m usually not obtuse, but right now I guess I am! Anybody willing to translate and write a “Therese for Dummies” book? i’d sure appreciate it! Thanks, guys and have a “Merry, Merry” or a “Holly Jolly” if you prefer!)

Re – Margaret Balyeat | December 21, 2007 3:17 PM
Hi Margaret, this is just for me, but maybe it may work for you also. To live a Life in moderation, requires a lot of self discipline (which of course most of us don’t have, otherwise we wouldn’t be here … not dis-counting the great relationships) In fact I think my generation is what screwed up all suceeding generations. I am, was and still is, part of Generation F … That is the Free Love Generation. Now there is nothing wrong with that, the Bible’s core is all about loving everybody. The problem with my generation, is it was mis-interpreted as “Free Sex Generation” … There is no such thing as free SEX, there is alWays a price to pay, and we are ALL now paying that price! (God help us!)And even today, there are many people who don’t know the difference between Love and sex … and intercourse! In fact they refer to sexual intercourse as “Love making” … Now you kow that is not true, is it ! (well maybe not all the time!) AnyWay, enough about sex, with moderation, there are indeed times that you just have to kick off your shoes and run bearfoot out in the snow !… Snow ? … What am I crazy ! (forget that !) There are times that you have to bundle up and run out in the snow, fall down on the ground and make snow butterflies and snow-women with big boobs and snowmen with big… uhhh … never mind (if you catch my drift !)
LUV 2 U / LUV 2 ALL
Wisdum

Wisdum:
Thanks for the tutorial…it DID help(I THINK!:-D) I’m becoming more and more convinced that you and I are contemporaries; I. too came of age during the “sexual revolution” (Sicties/seventies, right?)It was a crazy era!Regardless, it took me until I turned twenty-one to join the “revolution; my prudish midwestern upbringing and the fact that guilt was the motivator which my (non-catholic, incidentally) parents tended to utilize most frequently kept my vityue intact until then. Oddly enough, My doctor put me on birth control pills during my senior year in high school in an attempt to correct a “fenale problem i’d been having. Many of my friends would have WELCOMED such a development, but I hated it, fearing it would undermine my chastity! I DID take them, though and they solved the problem I was experiencing w/o pushing me into the revolution for another four and a half years, by which time I was a senior in college. Had I been a little more entreprenurial(sp? back then, it might have occured to me to sell those babies to the highest bidder, but it’s only now that the thought even popped into my mind. Of course, then I would have continued to suffer from the medical problem they corrected! When I ponder those years, it is with a mixture of nostalgia and thankfulness. somehow I managed to miss the sexual revolution AND the drug scene (for the most part, anyway…and YES, I inhaled!) I do remember one time taking some speed in an attempt to pull an all-nighter before exams to cram; once was all it took! I was awake for three straight days! I remember lying in my bed and bargaining with God that if he’d just let me get some sleep, i’d never again take speedand would stay away from hallucinogenics(sp ahain?) as well. When i finally WAS able to catch some shut-eye, it was a troubled, nightmare-infested sleep, but I DID pass all my finals and kept my promise as well! Even in D.C. in ’70 for the peace march when drugs were being openly hawked and used, I stayed clean!I think that’s probably the closest I’ve ever come to experiencing a manic episode, but since it was drug-indiced, I don’t count it as such. Anyway, it’s nice to encounter someone else from the old “Kent State days”! Am i right? that’s you?

Dear All…..i too loved the moderation saying….had to think about it too before i understood it..although i have to say your explanations helped alot.
now to something that has nothing to do with moderation. I know that here we talk about depression mostly which i have found very comforting. BUT do any of you suffer from panic attacks as well? If so i would love to learn of your coping strategies. As frankly they are limiting my life too much and keeping me home. My panic and anxiety mounts to extreme terror of I dont know what sometimes and its difficult to cope alone as i am alone most of the time. Do write if you can.

You guys rock.
I’ve been reading/watching silently for awhile and someone always makes me smile, and think, and smile some more.
Have a great holiday everyone–but not too great! : )

chatter:
I think that’s the part where Therese means you can skip the moderation
Happy Holidays, all!

Re – Posted by: | December 22, 2007 2:37 AM
Anyway, it’s nice to encounter someone else from the old “Kent State days”! Am i right? that’s you?
** That’s me for sure, I’m one of the few left that remember what happened then (the Grateful Dead!) with Kennedy and Kent State and all that Jaz.Kennedy was shot because he blocked run away profits from big business. He said that if the public utilities(oil,gas,and electric) made more that 10%profit, he would take away all their Government contracts … BAMB! Then after the Kent State Massacre, all of the young revolutionaries crawled back under the rug, and came to the realization that they could never overthrow the powers that be, from the outside, only from the inside.All of this crap in the Arab nations was started by the Shaw of Iran and the Ayatollah Khomeini, way back then. It took then over twenty years to take control of the government, but they too became corrupt in the process. Bill & Hillary made no bones about being Socialists, and it looks like that is where this country is heading, unfortunately the rest of the world is turning Capitalist, and they are Way better at it (the key is cheap labor, all we got now is the Mexicans, and we are fighting to eliminate that!) The handwriting is on the wall (and in the Bible!)
LUV 2 ALL
Wisdum