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Deja Q

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Sat Mar-18-06 10:49 PM
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Poll question: Loneliness is

Choose one as an absolute. If there is cause for multiple responses being equally accurate, please respond with your definition.

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no name no slogan

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Sat Mar-18-06 11:08 PM
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1. Loneliness is bad. But solitude is golden.

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Dangerously Amused

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Sat Mar-18-06 11:10 PM
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2. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,

...but delicious in the years of maturity. - Albert Einstein

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LeftyMom

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Sat Mar-18-06 11:10 PM
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3. It just

is. I try not to focus on it because there's not much I can do to change it at the moment.

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MadAsHellNewYorker

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Sun Mar-19-06 12:05 AM
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4. life.

...my life...

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u4ic

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Sun Mar-19-06 12:14 AM
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7. Mine too...

:hug:

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MadAsHellNewYorker

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Sun Mar-19-06 12:35 AM
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11. .

:hug:

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LaraMN

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Sun Mar-19-06 12:07 AM
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5. A warm gun....oh wait....that's happiness.

If that's happiness, I'm not sure I want to know what loneliness "is".:P

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Starbucks Anarchist

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Sun Mar-19-06 12:26 AM
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10. A cold bullet?

:shrug:

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Random_Australian

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Sun Mar-19-06 12:13 AM
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6. What life was for my last 17 years, but is not now...

I didn't vote though. All the choices were incorrect.

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belladonna

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Sun Mar-19-06 12:16 AM
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8. The person you thought loved you being in the same room

But still feeling lonely.

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CaliforniaPeggy

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Sun Mar-19-06 12:21 AM
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9. A flower dying in the desert, my dear HypnoToad.......

With the river just beyond......

And the sun burning down relentlessly......mercilessly....

Can you feel it withering your life, your love?

I can.......

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Deja Q

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Sun Mar-19-06 08:16 AM
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13. But the sun hasn't set yet and there's still a 25% chance of rain.

:)

(see, I'm not a pessimist. :7 )

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tibbir

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Sun Mar-19-06 01:33 AM
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12. The flower dying in the desert would be my choice

butbeing in a crowded room of partying people knowing no one is pretty bad too

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In_The_Wind

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Sun Mar-19-06 10:02 AM
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14. Part of the transition.

I voted for paradox.

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wildhorses

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Sun Mar-19-06 10:11 AM
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15. it is the flower and the paradox

and it sucks...there is a difference between being alone and being lonely...when I first divorced I was alone and wanted it that way...now I want to be in a relationship and there is NO one out there who wants to be with me so now I am alone and DON'T want to be that way...that is loneliness and that is flower

it sucks and I am sick of it but there is NO action I can take to solve the problem...and that is the paradox

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bikebloke

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Sun Mar-19-06 10:21 AM
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16. Rather than sink, I learned to swim.

I adapted and grew content with solitude. It's certainly better than mediocre company grabbed out of desperation.

Yesterday I was contacted by a bloke from my kibbutz days twenty-four years ago. Back then my life was hyper-social, and I thrived in it. Now I'm 180 degrees from that life.

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Mikimouse

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Sun Mar-19-06 10:48 AM
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17. 'tis a double edged sword...

Lonliness is the true freedom to be a flower dying in the desert.

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