Eclectic Evenings: I have a topic....

So, this is going to be a fairly vague post but I decided that I wanted to hear what intelligent people think about the topic of forgiveness: How do you do it?  What does it take for you to forgive somebody?  How hard is it for you to trust them again?  What about varying degrees of forgiveness?  This question is interesting to me because there definitely are degrees of forgiveness and there are certainly people I am more willing to forgive than others.  I was thinking about this at length tonight and came to the conclusion that I don't even need an apology or a sense that the person is apologetic in order to forgive them.  For me it's more a matter of whether or not they understand why I was upset or even if they acknowlege my feelings that's generally good enough.  I find apologies make me feel awkward and almost forced into forgiveness because that's what you're supposed to do.  The problem with an apology is that it is often just empty words.  I don't believe in doing things because they are what you are supposed to do.  I believe in doing something because you believe it is right.


There is my blurb. :)  I may have done this wrong but I posted it because somebody has been too busy slicing their fingers off to get this underway.....

Snozzberry

But wait... There's more!

Good day gentlemen and lady folks!

You're probably asking yourself, "Why am I here? What lame link have I been sent to?"

Graciously allow me a moment of your indulgence. This blog/e-zine was set up out of pure boredom and random thought process by myself. I figured that while I loved writing random thought processes, generally when I focused, there was a good deal of interest as to what I was writing. And then I took note of the fact that I had quite a few friends with as much or more on their minds than I did.

So... Why not do something that took advantage of those different perspectives and subject matter? Even better, why not take advantage of those different audiences that we all could give each other? And really, why not take advantage of the fact that this gives us the opportunity to speak to what we're passionate about, and to see the responses from new people that don't really care as much about who we are, but what we are putting out there?

And thus we have this. Our monument to the eclectic lifestyles that we find ourselves in.

So come on in. Enjoy. Take a seat. Grab a beer. Or a smoke. Or whatever floats your boat.

Oh. And by the way. We love feedback, discussion, and debate. One of the great advantages of an electronic medium.

-JWJacobs

Pardon our mess.

I am working at a breakneck pace (i.e. I'm procrastinating) to bring everything up and running, while hopefully making this all look prettier. Please indulge me :)

Actually, what I'm doing is something similar to cutting my finger off because I was busy daydreaming about the most amazing person in the world while cutting carrots.