Re: Yusuf

ohmygosh Mary, I'm sorry you've misunderstood my meaning, as well as my
own convoluted typing made me sound like I was speaking about your post,
BUT THAT'S NOT THE CASE.  Ohmygoodness, I'm sorry for making you feel
like I was commenting on your posts, but NO, I was referring to my time
spent on "youtube.com", and the evil postings that I keep reading there.
 Not your post about Yusef, or for that matter, any Sibling posts.  I've
not experienced the 'evil' I referred to with the Siblings, but rather
on youtube.com.  People log on there simply to watch someone else's
video posts, then make horrid and evil comments, when it would make more
sense to just not watch the vids that you know you'll dislike!

Please know that I never meant anything about your posts, in fact, I
meant to be positive about the list 'coming alive' periodically.  And
also, please don't let me or any other mush-mouth out there cause you to
not post or respond to others.  No one is worth keeping you quiet!  I
truly hope you understand that I never meant to speak out against
anything anyone here posts.  

Ben(needs to compose his mail better!)Thomas

>>> <[email protected]> 11/16/2006 10:37 AM >>>
In a message dated 11/16/2006 11:10:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:
Girl, can you feel my love?  I too did a butt-load of reading once I
got
the first post, and I'm so glad that folks are not jumping my or
anyone
else's crap about posts.  We get to have opinions, and it's been
wonderful to get so many different points of view.  We're a diverse
little group I believe, but there's so much universal about us, I'm
glad
there's not been anything divisive enough to make us be mean to each
other.  I check out youtube.com pretty regularly, and it never ceases
to
amaze me just how many people out there in cyberland simply log on to
be
evil to other people.  Now, don't get me wrong, I put the EEEE! in
Evil,
but only to those loved ones of mine that are SO derserving.  I
couldn't
imagine even posting anonymous ugliness about people I don't even
know!

Anyway, I love it when out little list comes alive, and generally,
it's
due to someone posting something a bit controversial or topically
energized, then it's off to the races!  Truly, I read every post and
like you all...I really really do!

Thanks!
BenThomas
I don't know what made you start talking about people logging in to be
evil 
to others. I made a point to say at the end of my post that I was not
attacking 
anyone, just listing my thoughts from reviewing the website of Cat
Stevens 
and trying to have some humor. I had liked his a music a lot as a
teenager. 
There's a lot I remember about that time period and reading about
eastern 
religions including Hinduism, and some of my friends were reading
Siddhartha, and Cat 
Stevens was on the radio. It is a bit of a downer to me that after that

open-minded period, he went down the path of strict fundamentalism,
including that 
of how women should dress, but I also think he is in a position to help
a lot 
of people by virtue of this path he chose. So I'm sure he's in the
right place 
and path. I can tease a little about burkhas but I think he's probably
a 
pretty good guy all in all and he is definitely working for peace now
since 9/11. 
Whether I would enjoy the new cd or not, I have no idea till I check it
out. I 
hope I have a right to have a sense of humor about Cat Stevens; I'm shy
enough 
as it is and almost never post, please don't ascribe motivations to my
post 
that I specifically pointed out I did not have.

Mary