Re: Need some advice on love, guys...

When I tuned to 179kHz, I received thehawk:
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>> Good (so how close do you think I think it is?).  I just mean sometimes
>> it's hard to know what people consider their friendship level is.  Well,
>> you don't use my friendship scale, so you don't know it's like a
>> bureaucracy with many levels, so don't feel bad.
> 
> So kind of like the Chinese Celestial Bureaucracy?  I have always 
> thought that a cool way to run a pantheon.  Have never really thought 
> about friends being arranged that way, but it makes sense to me.  
> 
> My own "friendship organization" is similar, but laid out like a fantasy 
> occidental castle.  There is the surrounding area, where most of the 
> people in the world live.  The people that I know and get along with 
> gather in designated areas outside the main gates.
> 
> Then there are the outer walls that protect a courtyard type area, where 
> people that I know and get along with well are allowed to go.  Then 
> there is the inner wall that protects a smaller courtyard type area 
> where a relatively few number of people that I REALLY like are allowed.
> 
> Beyond that is the Keep, to which very few are allowed in, and rare is 
> the occasion that someone is allowed beyond the Main Hall.

You are weird....

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> Sometimes the words I use do indeed sound rather prickly as you say, but 
> that is not always how I intend them.  In this environment it is 
> especially difficult to convey these things because there is no body 
> language to read, no facial expressions, and it is difficult to properly 
> convey intonation, inflections, and stresses in the words used.

It's hard to tell, but I sensed some sarcasm....  I don't like my ideology
being made fun of.  I respect liberal people.  I don't agree with them, but
I can understand, and I expect the same from them.

> I write very close to the way that I speak (well, usually without the 
> misspellings and typographical errors), so all of the problems with 
> grammar, sentence structure, and choice of words are the same as they 
> would be as if you were talking to me in person.  Additionally, I tend 
> to speak literally, tho I am guilty of using phrases which are fine when 
> taken literally, but can also be taken another way.  Usually the 
> "another way" is laced with innuendo, and because of how people's minds 
> work, they take the second way first, even knowing that I usually speak 
> (and think, for that matter) in literals.

I also type the way I speak, but you are much weirder....

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>> clue about, or just what only I consider to be bad attributes, and hold you
>> accountable for it...), I may or may not have told you for some good
>> reasons (like you reminds me of bad stuff from my past).
> 
> Maybe the Universe thought you were not done with these bad things from 
> the past, so it figured out a way to put the two of us into the same 
> space so that you can finish dealing with it?  *Shrugs* The Universe 
> works in odd ways sometimes..

(*groans in disgust*)  I really don't know I should laugh or cry....

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>> such conversation with him).  A buffer time between talks allow me to think
>> through the nature of the relationship.  I guess I am a little wary of the
>> unknown.  So give me some time and space.
> 
> No worries, Ashikaga, no worries.  The unknown seems to be the single 
> biggest thing that humans in general do not deal so well with.  Take all 
> the time you want|need.

Don't worry about that one....

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>> Thank.  :-)  I hope you do the same.
> 
> *Smile*  And thank you Ashikaga.  With any luck...

Thanks.

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