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	Create New Topic   My Posts   My forum buddies   Invite friends   Private messages Russian brides > Main Forum > Christmas truce... Author Post Harvey Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/22/2010 6:32:49 AM   How about taking a week or so off from the fighting. Then after the new year celebration rethink your positions. Does it really matter? Some battles are not winnable. baron555 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/22/2010 12:11:42 PM   For most that's all they really have to offer! ragingbull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/22/2010 2:03:34 PM   Christmas? Holidays? How about the rest of the time? Don't start it and it will not happen. My stories are true and they will be heard. They can be discussed. They will not be called inconsistent or nonsense while I am called names and cussed at. I have a right to be here just like everyone else. ragingbull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/22/2010 2:46:20 PM   Back in the war, the Vietcong had a saying, "Ta, ta, tan, tan." or "Fight, fight, talk, talk." They would fight, when they are losing, they would talk. They would then regroup and fight again." Pretty good strategy, as they won the war. The Americans did not catch on. The Americans had years to analyze what happened. During the first two days of Desert Storm, it was clear that the coalition troops led by the Americans will win. The Iraqis wanted to talk. The response was, there will be talk only after unconditional surrender. Rag'n'Bull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/22/2010 5:18:30 PM   An ode to ragingbull from Ivor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkqfa-kaRFM Cheers Ralph, Happy Christmas :) Muzzy Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/23/2010 5:30:22 AM   Brave effort, Ralph. You seem to have overestimated other people's capacity for redemption (or maturity), but I for one sincerely appreciate the sentiment. Happy Christmas my friend! ragingbull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/23/2010 12:55:57 PM   Pretty shallow to me. What happens after the holidays? You have not been attacked, Muzzy. Just when I thought it was over, he would attack me again. He's right. It's not winnable. Perhaps he's just now just realizing it that he can't win either. Driftwood Arts Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/23/2010 1:57:39 PM   i 'd rather hav a lump off cole . bowhunter Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/23/2010 5:52:36 PM   wow, well marry christmas Muzzy Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/23/2010 8:19:50 PM   To RB, but equally to anyone else who feels like reading it... On here, you're right, I don't get attacked much (but I do get attacked, and have). I try not to attack others, though. I don't call them names, accuse them of lying or of anything else. As you say, I don't start it, but it still happens. It isn't important to me what I start, but how I handle what's started by others. Outside of this forum, I've been attacked plenty - all part of life. Of those who have attacked me, where they have offered a 'truce', I've accepted. I never want to be the one who carries the grudge, or extends the argument to the point where I'm arguing on my own, but it seems not many others share my point of view around here. You mentioned wars. Perhaps you'll remember the story of Christmas Day 1914, when the first world war was stopped by German and British troops, to play football. It started when the Germans began singing Christmas Carols, to which the Brits responded by singing back. Both sides went on to leave the trenches, where they exchanged greetings, and ended up playing football with each other. They allowed each other to return safely back to their trenches afterwards, and "re-started" the war in a way and of a time that was by mutual consent. Up to this point, 40,000 Brits had been killed in the war, but they and the Germans (who'd lost plenty of their own) still retained their decency, kindness, and humanity, even knowing it was only for a day, and was with people who would be trying to kill them just one day later. Have you really lost so much in your battles here that you can't do the same? You control your circumstances, or your circumstances control you. You control your behaviour, or your behaviour controls you. If this isn't the time of year for asking yourself who you are, and how it's defined by your actions, then I really don't know when is. Just to be clear, this isn't all directed solely at RB. Maybe this means something to whoever's reading it, maybe not. If you're reading this, then I genuinely wish you a Merry Christmas, and promise you that I hold no grudge against you. Life really is too short! "Eating words has never given me indigestion" Winston Churchill "It is a good for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations" Winston Churchill (that'll be aimed at me, then!) Rag'n'Bull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/23/2010 8:49:28 PM   Happy Christmas Muzzy :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IHadByMvXk ragingbull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/24/2010 12:34:34 AM   Outside the forum, I hardly ever get attacked. In my adult life I can count only three. Two of them walked away when I would not back down and someone got in between us the third time. At my age, that’s not a lot. I cannot allow the foul mouth of Ivor and Ralph directed at me go without response. It was not my intention to go into it with Ivor the two times I did, but his enemies are littering the forum. He does not see that. All I did was to point it out. You may not like how I handled things, but I think I handled it just fine. It probably wasn't the best way, but it was handled. That’s my way of handling the circumstances. I would do it again. Muzzy, I respect the clergy. If you remember I asked you how to handle this. Your response was there is nothing that can be done. They are what they are. I disagree. Doing nothing makes them worse. The truce Ralph asked for is in place. All I did was put a condition: Don’t start it and it will not happen. That condition is not just for Christmas. It is for all time. What good is a truce? The Brits in your story and the Germans still fought and killed each other. Remember the Korean War in the 1950’s? It’s not over. There’s a truce What good is it? What is the difference whether they kill each other now or later? What would you do in January if a full war is in place? Wait until Christmas for another truce? Don’t start. We can live in peace. If it will stop now and start again after the holidays, I want no part of it. Harvey Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/24/2010 9:03:40 AM   Well now... The winter bow season opens again on Monday after Christmas. Arm is much better and preparing to spend as much time as possible in the woods (hopefully only a couple days are needed - it's freezing out there!). I was just reading a hunting forum and came across this quote. I thought I would post it here. "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming." -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to all. to da hunt! to da hunt! my gf experienced the 3 stooges for the first time last night and loved it! Am I a lucky man or what? ragingbull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/24/2010 11:55:14 AM   I know you better than that, Ralph. The truce, Christmas and Von Goethe, you will blind side me again. That's all I'm doing is trying to become what I am capable of. As I said before, I am ready for you. I hope it will not start again, but that's not reality. I am doing two scripture readings on the Christmas services tonight. I will do it as a sinner and not someone who pretends. To do otherwise would be a great disservice to what this celebration is about. It is what it is. Merry Christmas, Ralph. Merry Christmas, Ivor. Merry Christmas, Olga and everyone else. Thank you, Muzzy. baron555 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/24/2010 6:12:26 PM   Now see if she understands the Marx Brothers!!! Merry western Christmas to all from me and my happy family. bowhunter Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/24/2010 6:40:15 PM   wooo hooo hunting Sunday then snowboarding. thanks Muzzy some days it is harder than others but I try not to let other people affect my mood. ragingbull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/24/2010 9:47:09 PM   Mr. Spock from Star Trek is a character whose moods is supposedly not affected by others. He didn't let things be. He didn't keep quiet. He responded, but not with emotion. Rick4girl Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/25/2010 7:15:19 PM   MERRY CHRISTMAS to all and hope everyone finds who they are looking for in 2011 Harvey Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/29/2010 6:45:36 AM   There are still a few days left to find who you are looking for in 2010. Perhaps you already found her. Harvey Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 1/1/2011 7:19:44 AM   well, it seems a certain individual (aka the two year old) couldn't get past one day without displaying his insolence. Happy New Year everyone. I recall a funny cartoon from years back. And at the end one of the characters yells across the fields, "The feuuuuuuuuuuuuuud is on!" Ivor, aren't you going to thank me? Your Reply: Your name:   New Registration Password:   Forgot password?   refresh Code:   Russian brides > Main Forum > Christmas truce...
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