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Topic: Thank you rainbow
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SAWSAN Hammouda
Knowflake Posts: 64
From: Alexandria, Egypt
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted January 02, 2005 02:57 PM
 
Thank you Rainbow, for your warm wellcome. Do you know that you were the first one to make me feel I may be accepted among you (cancerian fear of inadequacy). I was welcomed by everybody, but your words reassured me.
I visited the photoshop, and met you face to face. I left photos of myself too, and my girls.
p.s Sawsan is my real name, it is like Suzan in English.
This is a taoteqing wisdom, just for you;
The best are like water
Water benefits all things and does not compete with them
It flows to the lower level
In this it comes near to the Way.
In their dwellings, they love the earth
In their hearts, they love what is profound
In their friendship they love humanity.
In their words they love sincerity
In government they love peace
In business, they love ability
In their actions, they love timeliness
It is because they do not compete, that they hold no resentment.
Rainbow, thank youIP: Logged |
SAWSAN Hammouda
Knowflake Posts: 64
From: Alexandria, Egypt
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted January 02, 2005 03:06 PM
And Rainbow, Alexandria library is rebuilt, opened for public last year in a huge ceremony,attended by many kings, queens and presidents, among which; President Mitteran of France, Queen Sophia, who had her education in Alex, and you wont believe in my school, E.G.C. English Girls College.
I'll give you the website later. can't remember it now.IP: Logged |
Rainbow~
Knowflake Posts: 5927
From: The Little River Indian Reservation
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted January 02, 2005 06:05 PM
Sawson.....I am so happy that I made you feel accepted here...  It makes up for my inexcusable behavior a few years ago, when I didn't make someone here feel accepted...*sigh*..  . In my paranoia at the time, I assumed that they were someone else coming in under a false identity....( long story...part of the history of this website......) I was quite determined that I was right and the other person was really who I thought they were, for a long time (having stubborn Scorpio Rising), but when I finally came to realize that I had made a grave mistake and was oh so wrong, I apologized with much embarrassment and a very red face...for having been such a blind fool.  In fact there were three people whom I thought were all the same one....and praise be to God/Goddess they have all forgiven me...and because of their forgiving nature, we are on good terms today...*sigh* (I hope I deserve their forgiveness) I truly hope that I have grown enough to never be so unkindly again....  It was not a pleasant episode and I would not bring it up, but only to let you know that Rainbow has made some mistakes in the past, but as I move forward, I hope the weaknesses of that old Rainbow have fallen away.... I'm truly hoping that 2005 will bring great positive changes to not only me, but the whole world. We certanly need them...there is so much wrong... Thank you for the taotequing wisdom....and I am so happy to hear about the new library in Alexandria.... ....and I am happy that you've felt welcomed here..... Everyone here is great....and oh by the way, we're called "knowflakes." Love,
Rainbow
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pixelpixie
Knowflake Posts: 5301
From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted January 02, 2005 06:13 PM
Rainbow, you have spoken about this before, though with not as much detail.
I know how it feels to be embarassed and have a hard time forgetting.. and usually we beat ourselves over it long after the other party has forgotten or forgiven. I make such mild things tall by amplifying them in the front of my mind, with shame and the wish to change my reactions. I see that you are such a wonderful person here every time you post. The stories you share, the care you take in telling others special things just for them.. the wonderful things you have done for others in your life.
Surely these much grander things are the first thing WE see when we see you, and the lessons learnt through mistakes we've all made are unifying as opposed to segregating. Oh look, this awesome person here did an embarrassing thing once.. maybe this embarrassing thing I did makes me human and good too.
Thank you for doing something which made you ashamed ( although I am sure it isn't all that bad). It makes me feel empathy and pride in my own learnings... and mis steps.
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26taurus
Knowflake Posts: 13411
From: *
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted January 02, 2005 06:18 PM
Very well put pix. I  Rainbow too. We all make mistakes. But both of your beautiful souls shine right through any mistake you could ever make. What's a mistake anyway? Just something to learn from and a chance to forgive yourself. IP: Logged |
SAWSAN Hammouda
Knowflake Posts: 64
From: Alexandria, Egypt
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted January 03, 2005 12:51 AM
Imagin a group of people traveling together on an unbeaten path. They will loose their way at times, thinking theyre going correctly. But once they know they're on the wrong direction, their courage makes them turn back and correct their direction. Some of them will put a sign on the wrong turn, to help others not to take that turn. Some other people from the same group will hide their embarracment, as if they never took a wrong track, they don't care if others will do the same mistake. There are also mischivious ones in the group, who will love to put a wrong sign to enjoy the feeling that someone will fall in the same pit, "no one's better than me" they think. Rainbow, now you know what kind of people you are. You're the helper, not the negative and not the bad, and not a GOD who never makes mistakes. We have a saying that you may enjoy;
GOD designed us to make mistakes. If we do not make mistakes, He would get others who make them and ask for forgivness and be forgiven. Mistakes are the tool for knowledge. IP: Logged |
Rainbow~
Knowflake Posts: 5927
From: The Little River Indian Reservation
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted January 03, 2005 03:31 AM
Pixlepixie.....26Taurus.....Sawson......You guys are wonderful....  So that you might understand what was going on with me (at that time) a little better ...I'll go into more detail...not that I'm looking for exoneration, for I was downright "in your face" nasty! eeeeeee  You see....once upon a time, there was a person who used to post both here and at Greg's site, who was mentally unstable (and has since been banned from both sites)....He chose me as well as some other ladies to "cyber stalk" with explicite lewd and offensive bahavior. . He managed to get back onto both sites several times by using other identities (and was caught and kicked off again)... Well it just so happened that I was sure that these three "new" people who had come here was the culprit....acting not as ONE.....but THREE different people...and was quite chiding and accusatory toward them...(My Scorpio Ascendant had not yet been tamed! oh...how I hate to think of it! ) Anyway, it's in the past, and I will never be so quick to jump to such erroneous conclusions again...*sigh*. In hindsight, I realize I should have been more compassionate toward the "stalker," as he was actually ill..... Thank you all for understanding...*Sigh* and I hope to put this behind me finally..... Amber...Snowwhite...Bernadette....love you gals.... Love,
Rainbow
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