There is room for everybody on Couch 72

I guess I still don't understand.
If I said I was watching The Greatest Story Ever Told....or Journey To Mecca...or Yentil...or Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring....or The Sunset Limited....or Life of Pi

would you feel the same?

I am not trying to push buttons, but you always talk of movies and tv shows, I don't get why it's wrong to mention a current one, even if it has religious themes.

RT didn't try to convert you, tell you you were wrong for not watching it, or even say the everyone needs to watch it. He just mentioned he was seeing it. Is it the same if I say I am going to church? Or if Mast says she's singing at mass? Or if Healed says she's trying a new church, or if RTS says he H left for church without her?

I honestly don't get it.

Well, the last time i talked about the real mccoys, i did do it in the proper forum, and i felt better about it. And all i did was suggest he take it to a forum where people for sure would want to talk about it, since it was the 2nd time he mentioned it. So it was less a proscription, and more a prescription.

Okay. Thanks.

well, I guess I don't see watching a movie a religious act. A lot of people who are not religious in any sense are interested in those movies. It was on the History channel for crying out loud...it is history. Whether or not you believe in the message, it's no different than a movie about Buddha or Ala or Jehovah or Gandhi or even MLK.

It just feels kind of cold to tell a person to go to another forum just for mentioning a movie. And I need to know myself what I can or cannot mention on here.

This is what i said, after he mentioned specific religion terms twice. I did not argue with his response, or anyone else who then yelled at me. If you think i was not following pc standards, please feel free to report me.

my great grandparents on the mothers side came from Ireland ,and I am also French . so I have a temper and like to drink lol

and I mean this in all honesty I want to know why was it ok for healed and ready to post about a lot more triggering stuff over and over again about there issues around religion but talking about a movie is not. I don't get it and am curious about the double standard. I mean I could go back and site it all and the abundance of support they received and did deserve. but talking about a movie is triggering. just feel that TR deserves the same respect

Um...I wasn't yelling. I'd have typed in all caps if that were the case.
I don't want to report you hankstah, you know that.
Since I say far more about religion, I wonder if that's what you think every Sunday when I say I am off to church.

I got blessed with the fiery red hair, freckles, and a temper.
Oh, and drinking is fun as well.

Go pick on someone else.

Why does one thing upset any person if it does not upset others? I don't really think there is an answer. I thought it was all rather civil at the beginning.

I am really very sorry that I made you feel picked on.
I don't want that, I don't want anyone to feel like that.

Forgive me?

Are you gonna celebrate St Paddy's now that you've got red hair?

I don't know stopdog. You're right, I just hate when someone is pushed out because of a comment. The title says all are welcome, but as soon as RT mentioned a movie it was like "all except you". It triggered me, much the same as the movie title triggered Hankstah, and you. No one wants to feel like they can't talk.

And then I started thinking about all the times I've said things and I was like "wow, they want me to go away too". It felt personal.

Ah. I did not think it all that personal at anyone and I read it as quite polite. I did not read either of posts the way you saw them - not that I am right and you are wrong - just that we read them differently.

agreed who knows . I guess I just need to accept the double standard and be careful of what I might say in the future .

im also sorry you may have felt picked on .I truly was curious ,maybe I would not have felt so badly about your comment or TRIGGERED by it if I understood why but I guess that was selfish on my part . but I do hope no one ever tells you to post else ware no matter how polite it is especially publically .I know it would hurt me and I would certainly would have felt picked on .but that's me maybe TR was fine with it and so were you to say what you did and will no longer respond to it

I like the last item on the basic needs list--someone to bi tch at...
I think I may want that too, when I get a bit older.

Just saw Non-Stop and I though that was a great film as well.

Trigger for talking about religion


75% of the reason I go to therapy is because I dont experience my religion in the way I want to. So for me its part of my therapy experience. I never realized that someone else's religion could be triggering to others. I apologize for triggering and offending anyone.

I don't think you have.
I don't really think any of it was about someone being triggered or especially offended - just a simple suggestion or request. Which could be acknowledged or not. Just because someone asks, does not obligate the askee to comply.

I actually think this may be turning into a bigger deal than necessary. I don't think everyone needs to start apologizing for possible unintentional remote things. Plus I do believe that once it is realized that one should not read something or some other poster, one has that choice.

Whoops ...

Gah - we may be getting more winter weathery precipitation.
I am totally sick of it and since it helped screw up my back, I am pissed that I will have to take back care into consideration when cleaning it up.
I should be invincable dammit.

That melty-freezy episode of the twilight zone is like a reality already. I had to take the long way around - not the slant of the triangle, but the two corner pieces - walking back to my apartment because the slanty part has a speed bump that is completely iced over, that i cant step over, and i didnt want to take a chance of stepping on it. Only talking maybe 30 extra feet, nothing big. But that speed bump - breaking a hip is often life-ending for us oldsters. Thats what a nurse friend told me.

hankstah:

GUH

(that's a backwards hug to beg forgiveness. I did not want to hurt you.)

My decision to write what I did was not about Hankster's post. I agree with SD on your post...it was a suggestion. My apology was due to my unawareness that people found talk about religion for me not for them as triggering. This was brought out bycomment made b yGragnite ... it just made me aware of smehing oi may have been doing that i wasnt ware ofa

It's freezing here...but I can see the grass finally.
Only for a few days because more snow is due. It's been a very hard winter on all of us. I need sunlight and beach time.