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I get my email in several mailboxes - and it was almost horrifying to see the number of posts made today on two subjects - jokes/insults and the direction this list has taken. I joined this list, like most of us, to learn about pd. I also joined several others at the same time, which I am no longer a member of now. I can find out facts about pd in the archives, at med sites, from doctors, or by looking in the mirror. I find the heart and spirit to face today and tomorrow from reading folks on this list. I don't always agree with them, don't always like them, but I do think they have the right to be heard. If someone finds a joke offensive, then quit telling the damn joke - odds are that one person only spoke up, and another 100 agree with them. I happen to like the jokes, but not enough to lose one member off this list - especailly when that member is one I don't normally agree with. Sounds odd? think about it, if the only people you read/talk to are people who agree with you, then how are you going to learn to see the "other side"? I respect a lot of people here I've never met - but I have met a few, and they are just people, like you and me, who are trying to make the best out of life. some of them I like, some I don't, but they all deserve the right to voice their opinion and not be told to shut up. I have been on this list long enough to see several list wars flare up, people get mad and leave, etc, but I have also been here long enough to see the value of this list is more than the pd info. you get. I write poems to help keep me sane. Maybe you paint, or the next one prays, or tells jokes. I think whatever it takes to keep going, to face another day where your fingers won't button your shirt, or you have to look at someone new watching you try to get a drink without spilling the whole damn glass, or breaking another good dish because your hands won't hold the damn thing... hell withit, it's been a long day and it saddens me to see good people like dr bob, sandy, janet etc feeling they have to leave because someoen got mad and flamed them. this list belongs to one person - barb p but to a whole lot of us, it's a part of our family too can't we remember that, and allow some lee way? bob aka tex _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com