peacefuljeffrey

We wonder why there is no progress toward peace in the world? We have people acting like violent neanderthals because they see someone who's not in the same "club" as they are, and they "do not get along with" them?! This is the only reason they need to MURDER people?! Not even a personal vendetta or a past wrong... obviously the victim here could not have been "the guy they were looking for because of X disagreement in the past," since he was not even a member... So there's no "honor" thing going on here. Just some assholes who want to manufacture reasons to hate and kill other human beings. How disgusting. How can you possibly compare motorcycle "club" members with skydivers (your implied connection in your post above.) Hell's Angels and others are criminal GANGS: H.O.G. is a "motorcycle enthusiasts' club." You say we'd "change our stereotype" if we sat down and talked with members of a motorcycle gang... Um, how would we make sure they didn't KILL us for some slight that we did not even know we were giving? I mean, maybe they have a code where if you pass the salt with your left hand, you've insulted them and they can kill you for it? How does killing a guy for wearing a t-shirt comport with your argument that these are just fun-loving people who are misunderstood, and are really great guys if you just "sit down and talk with them"? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'm glad you liked it.

No, but we guys can make total ASSHATS out of ourselves fumbling all over ourselves trying to impress a woman that beautiful. When I saw that new avatar for the first time, yesterday, I broke my spacebar with my dropping chin. She is freakin' GORGEOUS. I can only TRY to imagine what it must be like to go through life as an icon of beauty that just about everyone can't deny... Is it better than being average, like me, or does it have other kinds of drawbacks that make it no better or worse? Sometimes I wonder if there should be any importance to our physical appearance, since that can be such a fleeting, temporary thing... I'm gonna start a thread about that when I have more time. I have some serious thoughts (and curiousities) about the issue of inner beauty versus outer beauty... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I remain open to many, many possibilities, and ham, that one is among them.

I believe in the concept of a soulmate but don't know if they can be or actually are truly one's soulmate. It's not inconceivable. But it's also not inconceivable that we just make ourselves believe that someone is our soulmate. Sometimes, in my most despondent times (romantically), I find myself feeling that there really is no true love, because the best we can do, relating to another person, is still very very indirect, communication-wise. I mean, everything that another person knows about you, no matter how hard you try to let yourself be known, is no more than the sum total of what you have communicated to that person, either verbally or nonverbally. This quote by Rush, from the song "Entre Nous," sums up how it all seems, to me: "We are strangers to each other each one's life a novel no one else has read Even joined in bonds of love we're linked to one another by such slender threads..." Think about it. Take as an example the one person in the world who you think knows you best. There are still many many thoughts, experiences and truths about yourself that have never been expressed to that person. We all keep secrets; we need to. It helps us contain and possess our own identities. We have to have at least something about ourselves that is private and guarded, in order to feel like ourselves. Think about a specific experience. How about a really good skydive, one where you accomplished every goal of the dive exactly as planned. You get on the ground and try to express, to your lover, how it was. Trying to convey what's in your mind (in this case, the jump experience, but also it could be your love, or other emotions) is like trying to put terrabytes of data through a 14.4kbps modem. It just won't happen. It's like trying to put a 1,000 page novel into a 2 hour motion picture. ALL kinds of details and data get stripped out. I want a soulmate, believe me. I fantasize about having one. But I just take each day as it comes and wait, and think, "Maybe today's the day I find her." But you have to be prepared to live life without one -- as most people probably end up doing -- because you just can't will a soulmate into your life! You can't stop your life while you seek one, either. You still have to do your day-to-day living. To finally answer your question: If a person really is built to be your soulmate, I don't think it makes a difference if they're living somewhere else and have never met you or heard of you, or if all you've ever done is chatted on the phone or the internet. If they're right for you, they're right for you. I mean, is it really any different from someone creating a jumpsuit that is exactly the perfect dimensions to fit you, even though they did it in the blind without ever measuring you? It's RANDOM, but it's possible. And hopefully some day it will happen to me. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

And a jump to the left... ...But it's the pelvic thru-u-u-u-ust that really drives you insa-a-a-a-ane!! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

See? I told you it all worked out okay! LOL! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

"But they ain't gonna choke Stymie!" That's from an old "Little Rascals" episode where they were eating artichokes. I never actually saw it; my brother told me about it. (Artichokes have always been a favorite delicacy in my family.) Well... My brother's ex-girlfriend's mom called me at work tonight and told me that a friend of hers had dropped off a CASE of baby artichokes that were left over from a party thrown by Jimmy Buffett! "I don't eat them, but I immediately thought of you because I know you love them." She invited me to stop by after work and pick them up, so I did. Her daughter had taken some, but I still got SEVEN packages with NINE artichokes each, and each 'choke is about the size of a tennis ball. I have SIXTY THREE ARTICHOKES now, more than I've ever seen before in one place! So who's comin' over to help me eat these things? Blue skies, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

No joke. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

LOL! Don't be sorry about the cutaway! She handled it all like a CHAMP! Chica even stood up the landing! I was so proud!

I'm blushing even though I was fishing for that very compliment! LOL! Thank you, Misty. May they accompany you on thousands of safe, fun skydives. Happy Birthday again! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Hey, you could post pics of your new skydive jewelry!

What can I say? I'm just cool like that. It was great hangin' with ya, flygirl.

I gotta say that I have seen them look okay on guys and I have seen them look horridly horridly ugly... "It depends." -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's a given. We're skydivers. People shouldn't even need to be told that. And, um, maybe lady donkeys wouldn't find that so bad, you know... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Pttttht! Sure you won't. You're just sayin' that so it'll be easier for you to reject me! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Greaaaat. I do my absolute best effort to charm a girl into the sack (er, well, the back of her SUV) and I get told I'm "funny." *sigh* -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I have plenty of couch space so come on!!!! I mean it, the more the merrier!!!! HEY! I'll be on that couch!! Anyone you invite to join me there had better be HOT!! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well, Gremlin, some other time, then. Glad you enjoyed Florida. Have a good trip back home.

Not a quote, but a "moment": I saw Brian Germain at the SoBe Boogie (first and only) do a handstand in the packing hangar... and while he was upside down, someone (don't know who it was) ran up and PANTSED HIM! Later that evening, he gave a canopy control seminar, and when he showed up to introduce himself and start the seminar (keep in mind, I had about 30 jumps and new NO one, so when he got pantsed he was just another dude to me), I said, "Hey, you're the guy who got pantsed!" Brian's cool; he took it in stride with a sense of humor and said, "Yeah." LOL! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Come up Saturday night! I'll jump as much as I can manage to on either or both days... and I'm not leaving til Monday morning, so come up Saturday night and jump with me Sunday. Misty, you better know I'm gonna drag your ass out again Sunday too! Tell the babysitter it's covered. Full-on two-day weekend for once!! LOL! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

*sigh*... I guess it'll do... I take it a halter top doesn't require a bra, right? 'Cause if there's a bra, I like the kind that snap in the front... Sexyyyy! BTW, If it's gonna be pumps, no stockings then, 'kay? It's a better look. Sayyyy, how much room is there in the back of your SUV? Enough to get funky? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

No, you could always just reinflate the head and grip around the neck to keep it that way, and get yourself a BJ at the very least. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Um... I'll be there to jump. (But you knew that!) What is SNF? Don't worry, kid; I know my way around an airport traffic pattern. We'll be all right. Just follow my lead. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"