tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4873969267913482457.post345429385117457814..comments2024-03-03T07:47:15.889-08:00Comments on Jaclyn Dolamore: On (Sort of) Leaving Social Mediajaclyndolamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175862748217333983noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4873969267913482457.post-71357340707564735282015-11-18T15:47:29.000-08:002015-11-18T15:47:29.000-08:00‘philanthropic + epiphany’ (=so much to give + vis...‘philanthropic + epiphany’ (=so much to give + vision):<br />~let these two words be the start of your journey~<br /><br />I looove RITErs;<br />I looove giving'm new opportunities<br />for thots/ideas/structural integrity,<br />taking'm in a completely-new-direction:<br /><br />Why else does a moth fly FROM the night<br />than to a bold, attractive candle Light??<br />Don’t let His extravagant Brilliance be extinguished.<br />You’re creative, yes?<br />Then, fly-away with U.S. to the antidote…<br /><br />Whether you obtain moralityB4mortality to wiseabove<br />or just glean tantalizing specimens for thy next best seller,<br />you shall find in our blogs a lotta (subliminal) moxie<br />which has taken this sinfull mortal yeeeeers to compile!<br />I lay it ALL out for you, dear, with All-Star-Oxygems:<br /><br />Wouldn’t ya love an endless eternity<br />of aplomBombs falling on thy indelible cranium?<br />An XtraXcitinXpose with no zooillogical-expiration-date?<br />An IQ much higher than K2 all-go-rhythm?<br />An anti-establishment, savvy victory +<br />avant-guarde-humility =<br />you’re promptly astonished, ain’tcha?<br />withe extraordinarily explosion of maelstrom mellowdramatic??<br />Here’s what the exquisite, prolific GODy sed<br />(with a most-excellent-detector of bull§ht):<br /><br />“Faith, hope, and love,<br />the greatest of these is love –<br />jump into faith…<br />and you’ll VitSee with love”<br />Doesn’t matter if you don’t believe (what I write);<br />God believes in you.<br /><br />Meet me Upstairs, girl, where the Son never goes down<br />from a super-passionate, lucrative iconoclasm where you’ll find<br />nonillionsXnonillionsXnonillionsXnonillionsXnonillionsX…<br />of deluxe-HTTP [<- pi] opportunities for excitement BTW.<br /><br />Do it. Do the deed, dude. Sign into the Big-Zaftig-House.<br /><br />PS “It is impossible that anyone should NOT receive all that they have believed and hoped to obtain; it gives Me great pleasure when they hope great things from Me and I will always give them more than they expect”<br />-our Lord Jesus to Saint Gertrude<br /><br />...think about it, girl:<br />if 1-outta-1 perishes in 88ish years;<br />then, how WE sinfull mortals have lived<br />is where we go for eternity, Up or Down,<br />Seventh-Heaven or the Abyss o'Misery.<br />Life is extremely tough now…<br />yet, life’s extremely short now.<br />And Satan’s working overtime<br />to take over your indestructible soul.<br />Don’t let him.<br />I Choose Heaven.<br />Choose.-blessed holy socks, the non-perishable-zealothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00241446130197185049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4873969267913482457.post-81805384936118496762015-11-18T15:47:18.257-08:002015-11-18T15:47:18.257-08:00‘philanthropic + epiphany’ (=so much to give + vis...‘philanthropic + epiphany’ (=so much to give + vision):<br />~let these two words be the start of your journey~<br /><br />I looove RITErs;<br />I looove giving'm new opportunities<br />for thots/ideas/structural integrity,<br />taking'm in a completely-new-direction:<br /><br />Why else does a moth fly FROM the night<br />than to a bold, attractive candle Light??<br />Don’t let His extravagant Brilliance be extinguished.<br />You’re creative, yes?<br />Then, fly-away with U.S. to the antidote…<br /><br />Whether you obtain moralityB4mortality to wiseabove<br />or just glean tantalizing specimens for thy next best seller,<br />you shall find in our blogs a lotta (subliminal) moxie<br />which has taken this sinfull mortal yeeeeers to compile!<br />I lay it ALL out for you, dear, with All-Star-Oxygems:<br /><br />Wouldn’t ya love an endless eternity<br />of aplomBombs falling on thy indelible cranium?<br />An XtraXcitinXpose with no zooillogical-expiration-date?<br />An IQ much higher than K2 all-go-rhythm?<br />An anti-establishment, savvy victory +<br />avant-guarde-humility =<br />you’re promptly astonished, ain’tcha?<br />withe extraordinarily explosion of maelstrom mellowdramatic??<br />Here’s what the exquisite, prolific GODy sed<br />(with a most-excellent-detector of bull§ht):<br /><br />“Faith, hope, and love,<br />the greatest of these is love –<br />jump into faith…<br />and you’ll VitSee with love”<br />Doesn’t matter if you don’t believe (what I write);<br />God believes in you.<br /><br />Meet me Upstairs, girl, where the Son never goes down<br />from a super-passionate, lucrative iconoclasm where you’ll find<br />nonillionsXnonillionsXnonillionsXnonillionsXnonillionsX…<br />of deluxe-HTTP [<- pi] opportunities for excitement BTW.<br /><br />Do it. Do the deed, dude. Sign into the Big-Zaftig-House.<br /><br />PS “It is impossible that anyone should NOT receive all that they have believed and hoped to obtain; it gives Me great pleasure when they hope great things from Me and I will always give them more than they expect”<br />-our Lord Jesus to Saint Gertrude<br /><br />...think about it, girl:<br />if 1-outta-1 perishes in 88ish years;<br />then, how WE sinfull mortals have lived<br />is where we go for eternity, Up or Down,<br />Seventh-Heaven or the Abyss o'Misery.<br />Life is extremely tough now…<br />yet, life’s extremely short now.<br />And Satan’s working overtime<br />to take over your indestructible soul.<br />Don’t let him.<br />I Choose Heaven.<br />Choose.-blessed holy socks, the non-perishable-zealothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00241446130197185049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4873969267913482457.post-84815071270022259792015-10-20T17:11:47.990-07:002015-10-20T17:11:47.990-07:00I keep thinking of your line about how the butterf...I keep thinking of your line about how the butterflies will still be there. And yes! I successfully shut it off and walked away from an article today that was drama for the sake of drama. They were wrong--but I thought about the butterflies, and just kept walking. :) I want real conversation--not manufactured click bait, witch hunts across Twitter, or those creepy FB posts that start off sounding real and then turn into passive aggressive posts about how 90% of the people won't repost, don't share, retype, etc. Just focus on the butterflies... :)Rose Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10752073931486321348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4873969267913482457.post-69336456289913427242015-10-16T18:28:26.285-07:002015-10-16T18:28:26.285-07:00I keep feeling like...maybe I should talk to peopl...I keep feeling like...maybe I should talk to people on the phone more? But i don't even know where to begin with that. I have one friend I have a phone relationship with, though, and she feels like the only friend I can turn to when I am truly in crisis...because hearing her voice comforts me in such a different way than any form of text. (Usually, we just laugh about stuff--there is also a lot more laughter on the phone than on the internet!) But I'm so shy, and probably all my friends are shy, and some of them truly hate the phone and I'm not sure which they are, and--ARGH.<br /><br />Ironically, I remember when I first got on AOL as a teen, if I made a really good friend we would eventually move to a precious phone call, the "Mom can I please have a half hour of long distance to talk to so and so?" thing. Now long distance is FREE, and no one wants to talk on the phone anymore. I'm sure there is some psychological point to be made, there...<br /><br />One thing is for sure, the house is definitely cleaner with less social media, and I have to admit that's kind of nice.jaclyndolamorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14175862748217333983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4873969267913482457.post-80894910390721703632015-10-16T18:23:41.514-07:002015-10-16T18:23:41.514-07:00I don't know why my replies are showing up in ...I don't know why my replies are showing up in unreadable colors now? It didn't used to be that way! But...yes, I don't want to start from scratch. I like my friends! And you are one of the people I would always follow because you are NOT ranty!! Unfortunately it does seem like ranting gets more attention in the wider world.jaclyndolamorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14175862748217333983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4873969267913482457.post-73014062267454941202015-10-16T18:11:06.183-07:002015-10-16T18:11:06.183-07:00Me too, so much! I was just saying on Facebook I m...Me too, so much! I was just saying on Facebook I might move my blog back to LJ because why not. Everyone mostly clicks on it via Twitter and FB anyway...but I could be one small piece of the LJ revival I'd love to see...jaclyndolamorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14175862748217333983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4873969267913482457.post-54782539948650001082015-10-16T18:10:03.319-07:002015-10-16T18:10:03.319-07:00It really is!!It really is!!jaclyndolamorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14175862748217333983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4873969267913482457.post-29297938473372890882015-10-16T16:03:42.217-07:002015-10-16T16:03:42.217-07:00Thank you so much for this post. It really speaks ...Thank you so much for this post. It really speaks to me, especially as I've been pondering of late whether it does me good or ill to have social media accounts. On the one hand, I'm alone a lot of the time (unless Morris is home), and I don't really have any close-by in-person friends. And even those I have who are near-ish I don't get to spend much time with - seems they all have day jobs and weekend plans, or make plans with other friends to do things, so it's very easy for me to feel isolated. But there's a danger in the social media thing, too, since so many people skim past posts or only hit the "like" button on posts where I'd much prefer actual interaction. <br /><br />I think I'm going to try to take a step back, as you have, to make it work for me in a better, more constructive manner, and in hopes of having more creative time that way. I certainly managed to accomplish more stuff today by not being on it so often - cleaned bathrooms, did laundry, watched an hour and a half art lesson online, wrote a draft of a new poem, spent time playing with the cat (she demands it whether I'm online or not, though, so that's kind of a given). Still, I think this makes good sense.<br /><br />And I am thrilled that it's working for you and freeing up more creative space for you in your life - especially since it means more of your works to look forward to!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4873969267913482457.post-21829763205566358792015-10-16T06:24:20.756-07:002015-10-16T06:24:20.756-07:00I also miss LJ because I felt like I was really ta...I also miss LJ because I felt like I was really talking to people. About real things! And FB is so ANGRY--all the time. I try to unfollow when people get ranty, but with moving all the time, it's my one connection to people I still know, and sometimes I just feel EXHAUSTED by once again being the new person and starting from scratch all over again. I mean, I can do it, but I also think it's normal for humans to want to continue friendships with the same people past more than one or two years at a time. So I'm not sure how to balance it. I notice that rantier FB days really discourage my writing, though--like maybe my stories (and sometimes even the kind I like to read, not just write) don't matter anymore, because they aren't "ranty" enough, or not about the pet topics and causes on FB. Which is silly! Rose Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10752073931486321348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4873969267913482457.post-77992540473849435632015-10-15T18:52:24.207-07:002015-10-15T18:52:24.207-07:00Beautiful post, and I think you have absolutely ma...Beautiful post, and I think you have absolutely made the right choice. I miss the LJ days, too.R.J. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503519800068573393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4873969267913482457.post-7637495308440904532015-10-15T18:34:23.293-07:002015-10-15T18:34:23.293-07:00Love this - and I need to try the 6pm rule. Social...Love this - and I need to try the 6pm rule. Social media is DRAINING!!Vivi B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05054647527562570624noreply@blogger.com