Deep Conversation for Greater Connection

My guess is 80's. Just because it would be interesting if it were true.

It was a good show. I give it 3.5 out of 5 stars as far as chick flicks go.

Yeah but the ostensible star of the show got upstaged by the bit players.

I keep saying I know Steve has me on Ignore, but he read -- and replied -- to at least one of my posts elsewhere, so maybe he's actually taking a peek every now and then.

Steve, if you're going to insist on insulting people, I invite you to just get it out of your system and hurl all your insults at me. Please, leave our other highly respected and long-esteemed members like @zeroturbulence alone.

What really made me sad to see you insult Zero is that he's been here even longer than I have (over 15 years,) and he's one of the kindest, most compassionate people here (not to mention, really knowledgeable in a lot of things.)

You had said in another thread that you see most of us here as arrogant 13-year-olds trying to escape our parents' basements... If you feel a need to keep saying such things, why not leave the other good people alone and keep directing it all at me?

Like when you said that another (male) member would be "princesses at a tea party"... as if there's something wrong with that. As you can see, we've turned what you meant as an insult into a party that a lot of people seem to be not only interested in, but are having a lot of fun with in the process.

Why don't you come over and join us sometime?

Because that's what I'm going to keep doing whenever you put out another derogatory statement. I learned to start doing that years ago with antagonistic people, and it's what I'll keep on doing for as long as God has me here.

So if you have any other aggression you need to get out, I invite you to do so at full throttle -- I just ask that you spare the good people here. And no, not because I see myself as some kind of martyr -- that's just silly -- but because you're throwing out really useful ideas for other threads.

I always enjoy picking up new ideas for talks to start here, and I commend you for consistently putting out plenty of interesting ideas.

I love that people are having interesting discussions and a whole lot of hilarious bantering in the spinoff threads!

And as I said, you're welcome to come on over and check it out for yourself at any time.

I think this guy put me on ignore back in May already. All I did was asking him a question lol

He hasn’t answered mine, so I’m guessing I’m on ignore too.

I was just thinking. If a guy changes the subject, homeboy said the guy is weak. But my husband is so knowledgeable, he can talk about mostly anything. So maybe a guy isn’t weak but smart lol.

Definitely!

You are, at that. I've known it for years....

The most ironic thing is that Steve completely humiliated and harassed @zeroturbulence for absolutely no reason.

Steve himself, in the very first post, uses an example of a woman browsing through a book about the stock market.

So I (a woman, the last time I checked, although Steve said in another thread I'm like a princess at a tea party,) joked that I would be the one to bore a poor man to death with talk about the stock market, such as with stock market OPTIONS.

Zero came in and said he'd thought of doing options in the past.

So Steve comes charging in and:

1. Accuses Zero of not having the guts to talk to a woman -- Zero WAS talking to a woman -- me!

2. Accuses Zero of changing the topic, which will make the woman see him as weak -- Zero was EXACTLY on point with the topic, which was stock market options.

But Steve came in with guns blazing when he didn't even bother reading anyone else's posts, and therefore cut Zero down without seeing that Zero was doing exactly what Steve was telling men to do!!! (Talking to a woman and growing the conversation with her.)

Jiminy Crickets!!!

I suppose the next thing Steve is going to say is that Zero is weak for having a woman defend him, which is what he replied when I tried to explain another male member's stance in another thread.

Once again, if you're going to put the majority of people on Ignore, DO NOT try to keep adding to the conversation -- even if you started it -- because this is a prime example of just how foolish you're going to make yourself look.

And it could have all been avoided if Steve had just bothered to actually keep up with his own discussion.

So, Stevie-boy, are you a bot or a troll? Maybe both?

I'm still holding on to the SAP (self-appointed preacher) theory. Well meaning, looking for a congregation to guide, but completely out of touch with reality.

The occasional bouts of ridicule indicate a radical shift in mood on occasion. Possibly caused by drink. But that's just a guess.

Oh, are we discussing our own theories now? I'll join, Steve seems to be obsessed with women to a very high degree. Perhaps before he came to Christ, he was a supporter of polygamy. Unfortunately for him, Christianity supports no such thing. Now he has gave up on multiple wives and instead went the route of multiple girlfriends to fill the void. Second theory is he's just a very social person who is afraid of not being around people and thus needs a woman in his life. I prefer my first theory though.

If I remember, he mentioned somewhere that he was headed to church service and would get more lady phone numbers.

I wondered if he knew that women talk to each other and share info like this.

I did some digging and looked up "Steve E" and found this...

Shhhhh. Just sit back and watch the chaos unfold.

I can see how he gets so many numbers from church ladies. Look at those epic dance moves!

One of the things all this "date many people at once" advice has me thinking about are the people who get addicted to "The Game" rather than actually finding someone. I'm thinking of writing a thread about it but am still piecing together the framework in my mind.

I had a job in my teens in which one of the managers -- successful, good-looking guy in this 30's -- was infamous for courting, getting engaged to, and then eventually breakup up with attractive woman one after the other (this was before the days when anyone made a fuss about dating co-workers or management going after subordinates.)

I'm not quite sure how he kept it up though, as he would buy each of these girls huge diamond engagement rings -- and since at least two of the girls worked at the same place (and were best friends,) he had to buy a different ring each time so he wouldn't look cheap.

I don't know what happened to him but I don't think he married the last girl we knew about either (I worked with 2 of them and had heard there was at least one other before them.)

He just really seemed to love the whole process, along with the excitement and attention that came with it, because of course there was a huge buzz every time he moved on to another girl.

I don't know what the young folk say now days, but back then, this was called being a "player," and anyone who tried to confront them was called a "player hater" -- to which the player would say, "Don't hate me -- hate the game."

One nice thing about having people like this here is that they are an endless source of new thread ideas.

I keep a couple of notebooks about different topics to talk about on the forum, but ever since these threads popped up, I've pretty much tossed my notebooks aside and just want for the next post to pop up.

They're chock-full of far better ideas than I could ever come up with!

I've found that the best thing to do when this happens is to keep running new threads to give people a choice of other things to participate in if they wish.