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I'm kinda lonely.

Ever thought about joining something?

A church or volunteer group? Scouting? Birdwatching group? A Sherlock Holmes society?

They are out there, but (Sherlock sobs) millennials never join anything!

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Have people forgotten how to respectfully disagree?

I have seen some groups vilify and utterly demonize another group, and then they wonder why that other group tunes them out.

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If you want to befriend someone of the opposite gender and don't want to seem "interested", how?

Ha--risky business! ;-)

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Anxiety to the point of getting sick.

My dear Sil, anyone can become destitute overnight through no fault of his or her own.

This is a principle of Masonry. It is why we shรฒuld always be ready to help others We may need help someday ourselves.

Simple formula: do all you can--let God worry about the rest.

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Feeling emotional.

Suicidal thoughts are junk thoughts. We all have them. Right now older white males have the highest suicide rate. That's probably because white families are not as close-knit as those of other cultures. We are all missing the nurturing of the extended family.

Ted Kaczynski, the "Unibomber," was right about what the Industrial Revolution has done to the human family structure. No, he was wrong to bomb people, but he was right about the IR. Now instead of that big, extended family to help us get through life, we find ourselves in isolated pockets of nuclear families--and even they are disintegrating across the landscape.

Here we reach out to each other--because in a very big way, THIS is our extended family!

Never forget that!

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Are Meyers-Briggs types supposed to be permanent?

Hmmmm . . . now HOW would you design an IQ test for someone much, much smarter than yourself?

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We should make this a secular site.

The tools that our religious faith gives us are a part of us. To say to never invoke the name of God when trying to help someone is like telling a mechanic to take all the wrenches out of his tool box when asking him to fix your car.

Christians, Muslims and atheists can all overdo the proselytizing.

But it all comes down to this: we are all on the Road to Damascus. We will all have an encounter with God before we die. We can heed God's message to us or we can ignore it.

We are all going to receive a message, however.

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I've just rescued an owl

Really sorry, kid!

You did your best!

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Post closed.

Pepper, you will have to get the right people involved. You cannot do it by yourself.

She can be saved. She just needs the right people to help her!

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Feeling emotional.

Here is Life Lesson No. 26, Never:

26. Feelings are not necessarily a reliable indicator of what you should do. If your heart says one thing, but your head says another, go with your head.

Your logical self will never tell you to hurt yourself. But emotions are not reliable.

Listen to your logical self. If your emotional self comes up with a suicide ideation, boot it from your psyche and don't allow it back in!

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