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New SOS Social Chat
As requested by an SOS forum member, we've created this social chat forum for those interested in a lighter discussion within the SOS community...
Enjoy, DocJohn |
Wonders to myself...so does this mean any non-suicide chat should go in here including wonder threads?????
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Yep. All OT threads go here.
So who has the champange to toast to the party room? :D |
Oh..BTW...I can move threads from there to here and leave a trail of crumbs so it can be found. :)
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What's "OT", Curious?
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OT means off topic, so any subject not related to suicide would be regarded here as OT. |
Off Topic.
The Social chat forum will be a place where everyone can post about whatever. The weather...what's going on in their lives. Jokes. :D The main forum would be for the Survivors of Suicide type of posts. That type of support and information. |
hehehe..as long as you have fur.....:p
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Thank you both!!
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Just to kinda clarify.
The deep emotional support type of threads, even if they don't deal or mention suicide, should still be posted on the main SOS forum. Threads that could be triggering also. Wonder threads can be there too. It's whatever everyone wants on those. Just pick on place. :) |
I like to voice an unpopular opnion and say that I myself think this is a good idea.
There have been so many debates over the years about what a forum entails... Suicide IS a serious subject, but then it gets serious'ed out quickly. I can remember the times that "I", myself, get out of topic many times and would get myself into trouble...:p that's my personality, that's me. I cannot change it but I have tried very hard to curtail it. And I did try to leave a few times because I just feel like I am not sure what else to do. Do I compromise who I am and worry about every single Harry and **** and Tom that I would/am going offend or do I keep on being who I am? as in life, I am not perfect and I HAVE to respect others and strive to be the best that I can to be a part of a community. But at the same time, I need to have an individual voice. Truth is, everyone will say something that will offend someone somewhere sometimes. talk about bacterias and someone who loves bacterias will shot back at you. TRUST ME, it's happened.... I have tried to leave because I can remember the times in the years that my joking around was taken the bad way, or people would feel like that I am NOT being serious enough. I get a bit bummed because ALL my serious efforts were overlooked....since we're being honest, I'll just be bloody honest. I try to show support as much as I joke around, but it is always my joking around that gets the "attention" of those that wants to be serious.... when I look at some 10 threads could go at one time and 5 people are asking for help. I like to think that I have answer all those 5 people that need help as well as the other 5 that are posting, maybe light heartedly but that's HOW they would open up. I know for me, that's how I open up sometimes...I've had a bad day today, from the time I woke up to now...and I am not sure I can come in here and gripe and vent and talk about my day. If some wants to, that would be perfectly fine. But right now, I feel like I would like to talk about how mosquitos make me itch... is that off topic? Yes, is that how I vent off my pain? YES... yet, as I would view the forum a a whole, talking about it seriously would just halt the forum eventually... that's the key, for me, AS A WHOLE... the whole forum as a whole...is to accept and understand all that comes here....some will open up slowly, some will open up immediately, some will feel offended if they are not being paid attention to even if the attention IS being paid to, some will take forever to even hit the thanks button... I lurked at NT for close to a few months before I even decided to join...that's how shy I actually am... I have learned to become a NEWBIE and trying to look in and see what would have happened... I wondered how many folks I offended with my flying rat or my post about mosquitos? I wonder that those off topic even though I wrote: OFF TOPIC would still fend off others...yet, I consider the SOS forum my home. It is because of the dynamics of years of friendship building...it makes it hard to leave but I have a built in personality that I have tried very hard to tone down... and I have to believe deep inside my heart that people WILL see my heart and how MUCH I care...that they will overlook that and see that I,myself, try very hard to be compassionate and understanding because I TRULY do care...as MANY of us here that care.. but, just like politics, ALL of us that care will share different opinions, all of us that care will share different views...it IS a melting pot, it IS supposed to be... I am not trying to fault anybody as it IS what it is.... but I think a separate forum is NOT going to hurt this forum. I have discussed this in private with some and I, myself think it is a good idea. It probably won't be a POPULAR one...but I think it'll bring comfort to some of us that just really don't feel comfortable enough venturing else where... it is like a house. I hang out at the kitchen a lot because I like to eat....but moss isn't as gluttonous as I am, so she hangs out somewhere else...but still,we're in the SAME house, together.... in a time when a lot of us are asking for changes in our gov't....and wanting to give it a chance. I wonder that we should give this place a shot before we say yay or nay to it... please know that I am not offended at anyone else's opinion and I HOPE that no one else is offended at mine. But for me...I have been feeling uncomfortable talking about rats and mosquitos and I feel that this would be safe place for me to discuss those things. If anyone have found those offensive, I sincerely apologize...I have worked very hard at being serious. And as I've said, I have tried very hard to curtail myself...but being me is being me...without that part of me. I just cannot see myself anywhere anymore.... *bigsigh... thanks for listening and I THANK you, Doc, for creating this...but this is a democracy and if most feel that it is NOT good for the forum, then, let the majority vote for it... my cast is YES, and it is NOT against anybody's opnion, just my own.. We need both, life is yin and yang...a balance.... :grouphug: PS, how about that? I am being serious in a not so serious forum. :) |
one more post before I head back to "in cognito" mode....
I am a bit unconventional...most would just say that I am a weird person... I totally believe in the energies and nothing being constant... a lot of the times, when I am in pain...I try to change the negative energies into the positive ones.... I do that by trying to make things lighthearted.... for me...FOR ME... I feel that if I keep on dwelling on the negatives, it WOULD make me explode.... and I really should've exploded 800 billion times and then some.... but by converting those negative thoughts and energy. I feel like I have once again, avoided driving over that bridge or trying to hang that rope on my ceiling fan (which I would never do again, because it is not fun when the ceiling fan don't hold your weight and falls on you) I feel the need to post these and let my thoughts out tonight, because I feel like I would explode...maybe it'll end up I would be the only one that would use this forum...but then, we'd all find out just how weird I am...and if that's the case, I would very gladly take the cue and just go away for good and stop being such a trouble maker. LOL *sigh...maybe none of these will make sense to me in the morning...maybe I will offend a million people... but maybe, someone else out there feels the same as I do... ;) |
Moi, I think mosquitoes and rats are toooo OT! They belong in the Pets Forum! :D
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Is this like the daily insight thread? If so, then whatever will I say in here? I already share my brilliant thoughts over there! I also take cookies and chocolate, subs for Frank and 20 dollar bills for whoever needs some pocket money over there. sigh. I'll have to pick out a new schtick for SOS Chat. thinking...thinking...:Doh: thinking...:Ponder: Mabe I could be a whiner in here? Could I? Or do we already have a whiner? I'm pretty good at whining-wouldn't be too much of a stretch. Like right now-I already have a whine:
"My baaaaaackkkkk is hurrrrrrrting." |
Moi, teach the rats to eat the 'quiters. :p or the rats to scratch your itch. :p
All will be fine. It's just something new. I do think people looking for help, information and support will find it easier and feel more comfortable knowing where to post. imo. <----monkey hands gma a piece of cheese :D |
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I'd like to say one little thing....I'm on vacation already 4 heavens sake get a tree house and party!!! Don't make me come back there!! :D I'd will be fine...we are big grown up people who care about each other. |
I think it's an okay idea, just it came out of nowhere, quite surprisingly so.
I understand completely separating the more jocular posts from the serious. I have to say though...there have been many times when people have said things even in their serious posts that had me biting my tongue to keep from responding in a negative way. I just didn't respond at all. Just really bothers me when someone gets offended so easily. But again, I understand the need for a separate forum. Or, we could all just do it in Social Chat. I often don't feel like I fit in anyway because sometimes there people here who think that I don't know what I'm talking about because I'm not experiencing what they are experiencing. We're all here because of one challenge or another. |
I think this gives a place to pick on Moi. :p We won't have to go looking around the forum for him.
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Yeah, it's probably a good idea most especially because Mr. Moi and I got in trouble in a forum long ago and far away. :D It think it was a gastrointestinal type of discussion, but geesh!!!....it WAS in a social chat.
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Soooo...since Mrs Allfe isn't checking in on us all day...what ever shall we do to keep occupied? :stirthepot:
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:icecream: :yahoo: :Trapeze 2: :trampoline: :Crazy 2: :Blush2: :Head-Spin: :sing: :Dancing-Chilli:
A little of this and a little of that? :D |
:cowboy2:
whoooo hooo! I found a cowboy! :D |
Omg, I have been in the ozone with da skeeters for too long, and look what happens. We get a new tree house to have some fun in! Well, yea! I could use some fun with rats, skeeters, froggys, monkeys, and other such fun loving critters. Can we work on Hemo da mosquito now???? Pleassseeeee....:grouphug: I luv u guys wherever you hang out LOL just don't hang, ok?
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now, see, you can't avoid hurt feelings, I am already offended because no one invited me to the party.
"No one inviiiiiiited me to the paaaaaarty!" BTW, no one answered my question earlier so I guess I can be the house whiner in this thread. ~~~:Deliberate: ~~~:Dunno:~~~:picknose: |
Alffe sent me a post card from Florida that arrived in two days - we were both shocked!
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I'll get used to jumpin' from forum to forum...
I wonder...oh, this isn't a wonder thread... but, Moi, I wonder why you think I was/am against 2 forums cuz I think all I meant to say was I didn't think I'd be able to keep up... :hug: and that's ok... I'm here and there and everywhere when I can be :) :grouphug: |
LOL Addy,
I think it was from you and Abbie's wonder from the other wonder thread. (but I could've read it wrong. My bad. :) ) Don't sweat it, dear heart! :D (((BIG HUGS))) |
Humour me Mwa.....saves me doing the counting.:D
How many suggestions do we have, and how many semi-final polls will we need to whittle the list down to 5 or 6 grand finalists? OOPS! I put this in the wrong thread. No wonder I couldn't find it! :o |
I stopped counting after 10...(only have 10 fingers and I used them all up.... ;)
I think just one poll...LOL Top 12??? really, I don't like making rules vs. suggestions...everyone's input are important... :D |
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