Blessed release

[st789]

George, I support you in your efforts to reach enlightenment despite many obstacles ahead.  We live in such a capitalist society that possessions and attachments are the foundation.  I am not saying it is evil or anything.  In fact, I am very grateful to live here; however, sometimes we treat each others based on the financial success of that person.

Attachment is something I constantly work on myself to free myself of unneeded stresses and to keep my life as simplicity as possible.

[glitter]

most of the people I know, who have real lives and families and jobs, do not spend much time on the internet. Its how I know I am the freak. Which gives me a good idea about the rest of you.LOL I think the anonymity of the internet can bring out the worst- like face to face brings out the best.

Another way to look at it is that some people like me for instance have families and other interests but like to be on the internet.  I like to read the news, to surf, to read other opinions, read blogs, get medical information, play games.
The internet opens up a whole other world for me where I can play Scrabble with someone at 3AM.  I don't thnk I'm a freak for doing this. I have a real life and I choose to spend some time on the internet when I'm not busy.  When I developed ESRD I truthfully lost a lot of friends who couldn't handle my illness.  Oh well.  Life goes on.

Donna

 my post was taken out of context- I was merely joking around, LL seemed kinda down, so I was just goofing around.   Obviously I have a life, and I spend 8 hours a day online at least. I also play games ,and blog, and do all sorts of things online. I am sorry if you people took my post as a personal judgement and as far as being a freak- that was laughing at myself, and all of you-guess I should have wrote 'haha'...thats it...
makes me look at his first post in a different light.

[Jannie]

I love the internet. All the knowledge and support in the world is out there. When I lost a pet cat, I found support at Rainbow Bridge. After I started dialysis, I typed in "I hate dialysis" and did a search. That's how I found you guys. I always wanted to be a librarian. Sounds like a boring job, but you get to know everything and how to look up the information about anything and everything. Now I consider myself a Google addict. Nothing can escape me. Hah!r

[BigSteve]

LL: As I said in our discussion on another topic a real "discussion" is
sometimes difficult by writing text messages to each other on this
or any forum. It is hard to get a "give and take" dialog in this medium
we are in. The "flame" wars I see on some other forums are not
communication, just people yelling at each other. Are you increasing your
knowledge or compassion when reading the posts of these "brain dead
sheep"? Especially if it depresses you enough that you have thoughts
of death. We kidney patients have those death thoughts anyway without
reasons for more.