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Well, I wrote something on the egroup that ended up being taken the wrong way. I was joking about the saying "half full or half empty". Someone wrote back with a bit of anger and totally took what I wrote out of context. One person said something about Joan not getting the help she may need while another person took my joke personally as if I was slamming thier idea of "half full". the email I sent was one that I thougth people would get a kick out of. I certainly didnt mean to upset anyone. Even the moderator said he thought I was serious. despite how many times I put LOL in the post it still got taken seriously. I put LOL in the heading of the post and it looks like I put it once in the body at the end of the post.

My first reaction was "god, i was just kidding". Then I read the reply from the person that took offense and was like, "talk about reading things into a simple joke" I was angry at first and then I started to unsub. I started feeling as if the group wasn't safe anymore and that I had gotten my head bitten off yet again on an eGroup. My first reaction to feeling unsafe was to reply to the posts but delete the link to my journals. Its safe to say a wall went up. I answered the posts and then started to unsub. I was ready to run before I got kicked off. Its hard to believe just how far out of context my post was taken. Below is my post but not the replies to it. I never add anyone elses posts or names to my journals. I dont think its right to do that.

**IS THE GLASS HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY****
>half empty Okay, say there is a guy that has walked the desert for well, 40 days and 40 nights and someone handed him a glass of water filled to the middle point? Yeah, he may be greatful but in the back of his mind he's wondering, "why is my help half a*sed?" After all this walking she can only bring me a half a glass of wine? See the logic here? Or what if I gave a thirsty plant 1/2 of the amount of water it needed to thrive? Would it be okay to say that the plant is 1/2 alive? See, there is logic to this. the half full "option" is for the blind optomist. See, I'm hearing impaired, not blind and certainly not blinded by half a*sed optomism. LOL
Joan of Arc

I was soooooo kidding. Why it was taken out of context I really dont know. I have had all night to think about it and I'm just going to let it go. At first I was just going to become a lurker on the group but I dont think I'm going to do that. I do think that I will be really worried about what I say on the group for fear of it being taken wrong again. I also wrote an email about a subject on de-lurking. When I wrote that I wasnt saying that the person that I was writting to felt any certain way. I was writting giving ideas of how a person might feel, actually, how I might feel. I havent heard back from the moderator about that one. But the person that I replied to thought I took her post out of context. so yesterday was just not a good day for eGroups for me. I have not opened any mail today from the group. I"m a bit nervous about it. There was even some question about me thinking another person was impersonating me. I never thought that. I said that I think the confusion about who wrote which email was because of a "cut and paste error". Error indicates a mistake, something not done on purpose. I know that the only 2 names that should appear on my posts are mine and Joan's. God, there was even a little dig about Joan's name. I took it with a grain of salt but right now I'm like, what the hell was that about? That wasn't even neccessary. No one needs to know why she goes by that name and no one needs to challenge its appropriateness by calling it "ironic" in regards to the "pessimism" that she was accused of. Now that makes me mad. I am so pissed. I think I should take a break from the group today because with this insult on my mind I just may write some things that are clear and can't be taken out of context. the worst key on any email message is "send now". After that you can't take back what you said. With me being upset like this I may press that key and send a bit of anger that I may think twice about a day or two later.

Austin

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