From: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org (eda-thoughts-digest) To: eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Subject: eda-thoughts-digest V3 #398 Reply-To: eda-thoughts@smoe.org Sender: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk eda-thoughts-digest Friday, December 8 2000 Volume 03 : Number 398 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * eda-thoughts-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY * the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: eda-thoughts-digest V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- ET: Prayer Request for the Holidays(poem) ["Seth D. Fulmer" Subject: ET: Prayer Request for the Holidays(poem) Hi, I was just listening to the radio and they were telling a story about this woman who lost her oldest son to some sickness(I forget now what it was anymore) at the same time she was raising her new baby into life. It sorta brought back thoughts about my aunt who died of Leukemia last November before Thanksgiving and how several of my friends have lost loved ones too. I know I have been requested to not send poems to the ET list but I thought you guys would appreciate this too. I wrote this and just think about all the loved ones you know that have either died or were terribly sick around the holidays. If you don't want my poems, let me know. Any comments and all that are welcome but not required. Take care and Have a Good Day! ~Seth ======================================= Prayer Request for the Holidays by Seth D. Fulmer 12-7-00 So many changes People are dead My aunt, Your father Both of their grandparents All around the holidays God I hate this feeling Why did you have to take them? Couldn't you let them live? Wouldn't it help the world They had so much to offer! They were such kindhearted spirits too kind if you ask the devil Now they're in heaven But what do you care? You don't seem to bother when people are too sick What about that child over there in the hospital with Leukemia or that one in the ghetto with a malevolent brain cancer How about that teenage girl who was raped last night so silently By her father so innocently after having intercourse with her mother So much hurt is in the world today There's little chance for love Where has all the spirit gone Why is there so much evil? Where did you go 2000 years ago when you let your son die? Did you put your whole self into him and die as well when he did This year at Christmas do me a favor and check up on those sick people Give them a loving hug or kiss or even tell them you care for them Visit someone who died in your life Tell them you still do miss them Their spirit still exists up in heaven They surely will appreciate the thought ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:12:37 -0500 From: "Kevin B. Pease" Subject: ET: Re: Prayer Request for the Holidays(poem) Well, I just have to comment on this, because I don't like it when one or two people presume to speak for larger groups of people. Call me a cynic, but I'm wary of people who tell me they're doing things "for the public good." Who's told Seth not to send his stuff to the list? If you don't like his stuff, it's real easy to say "Hmm, mail from Seth, with ET: in the subject. Delete." Just about any mail client these days can do it. I'm not going to pretend I love all, or even most, of Seth's work (sorry man, nothing personal, it just doesn't do a lot for me), but I'm certainly not going to tell him he can't share it with other people... Asking him not to send his stuff to the list because you don't like it, or because it makes you uncomfortable, or whatever the reason is, that just smacks of pettiness. Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 14:26:21 -0500 From: "Seth D. Fulmer" Subject: Re: ET: Re: Prayer Request for the Holidays(poem) Hey, I just want to say that I didn't want to cause any problems. It was a polite request to not send them poems and since they're on the list it's a bit hard for me to not send poems to just them without not sending them to the list. I don't want the people to think they did any wrong because I do state that in my poems (because it would be spam to those off the list if I didn't put it). I guess I agree a bit with Kevin but I don't find any wrong. For a while I've had this feeling like nobody reads it "so why send it to the list?" so I took that as my sign not to send it. The reasons given weren't out of not liking it but rather out of "too much" for everyone's information. I hope everybody has happy holidays if I don't talk to you before then :) *hugs to all who will receive them from me* :) ~Seth ========================================== At 01:12 PM 12/7/00 -0500, you wrote: > Well, I just have to comment on this, because I don't like it when one >or two people presume to speak for larger groups of people. Call me a >cynic, but I'm wary of people who tell me they're doing things "for the >public good." > > Who's told Seth not to send his stuff to the list? If you don't like >his stuff, it's real easy to say "Hmm, mail from Seth, with ET: in the >subject. Delete." Just about any mail client these days can do it. I'm >not going to pretend I love all, or even most, of Seth's work (sorry man, >nothing personal, it just doesn't do a lot for me), but I'm certainly not >going to tell him he can't share it with other people... > > Asking him not to send his stuff to the list because you don't like it, >or because it makes you uncomfortable, or whatever the reason is, that just >smacks of pettiness. > > Kevin ------------------------------ End of eda-thoughts-digest V3 #398 **********************************