felt compelled to comment on his message. Since I initially posted, I've had some time to think about what has been said today.
This forum is only what you, the major visitors and contributors make of it. I've read back quite a few months and have enjoyed the comments that have been made. This group was a loving, caring, sharing group, but that feeling certainly isn't here now. A loving and caring group did not create Eric's pain.
I've scanned back and there are some really interesting differences that seem to have taken place. There seems to be a great deal of disagreement about what should be posted where. Some major concern about who is #1 and accusations of dishonesty by another web site.
This web site will never be #1 and stay there if this is the type of major concerns broadcast in the forum. This type of negative behavior will only perpetuate itself because the people who will start coming here are going to be the people who thrive on disagreements. Or has this already happened? No, I don't think so, there are some really loving caring people who come to this forum and post. I can read the love and concern for others in this group.
The sharing of personal issues, illnesses, etc. and the love that has been showered on the members is very evident. I hope that without a moderator, that this group can self police and stop the non sense, otherwise, your group is going to become "just another forum."
This is to those who love to gossip...think before you speak...the back you stab may end up being your own.
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62461Thank you Leslie - I personally do not like conflict of any kind, and try to back away from it. Hopefully this is all behind us, and welcome to CUTE.
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12843Very well said Leslie, Thank you, Eric
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by leslie12
03 Jan 2009
You are very welcome, Eric. I hope that by "telling it like it is" opened doors for the members of this site to take a good long look in their hearts and to make the necessary changes needed to bring this forum back to the loving, caring, sharing group that it can be.
1281018727I couldn't have said it better myself. As stated by so many members below, you have said what the majority of us think and feel. And that a few have singled out a beloved member to the point of making him feel unwelcome is beyond reproach. I can only hope that Eric reads all the positive support and decides to join us again. Thank you so much for posting your thoughts on this issue. Mickey
12985Well said Leslie. Also to all the others who have show their support for Eric. *4 u
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30656Thank you so much for write down what a lot of us all are feeling. There is just one word that counts and that is RESPECT. I feel so sorry for Eric and hope that he will return. I miss his since of humor. What happened says more about the ones that have done that then about Eric.
58029I have been thinking of this situation over night. I've come up with the same conclusions. There will always be mean and hurtful people in the world. It is our responsibility to police ourselves, not fall into the trapp they have set , and just not put up with it. We certainally do not want to loose positive members like Eric. I feel if all we show is positive energy the negatives will not want to be here. So let us band together and show our strenght. Thanks for putting it in words we all wanted to post, Leslie.
53291008Leslie, thank u for your comments, We R, have been & will continue to b a loving caring fmly, as long as we conpletely ignore the animus remarks being made by odious, hurtful people who evidently have no life of their own but to try & cause dissention. We who have been here a while or above those things & shall continue to b the God fearing, caring, loving fmly we have been n the past. Lillian
145791Thank you for the perspective of an observer. I personally am brokenhearted over the actions of a few. I will choose to ignore them and what they say. "Resentment is like taking poison and hoping<br />the other person dies."<br />-- St. Augustine
158716You, certainly, are completely right. This forum is not like others and we have to keep it like it is, a lovely place where we can come to ask about embroidery but also looking for advices about the daily routine in our life. Is a shame what happens here and I hope, from the bottom of my heart, that stops here. Eric is a good man and doesn't deserve what happens to him. Thank you for your words. And welcome to Cute, is not the best moment but everybody is always welcome to become a family member. Flower and XoXo
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44254Thank you Leslie I am quite sure your thoughts and feelings are what most of us have been thinking and feeling...you are right things have certainly changed over the past few months..let's hope that we can get "Cute" back on track NOW before it is too late...I am a fairly new member, but look forward to signing in each day, it would be like losing a good friend, many new friends really..please let us all work to get Cute back to the way it was...Hugs G xxx & *2 each of U
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31942Well said, I am also not a paying contributer, but will be as soon I can (as soon as exchange rate gets better than R10.00 to the dollar) But I love talking and joining in discusions, because I feel so welcome here. Thank you for your good advice. I hope all will read this.
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27382I've been "laying low" for a while, and you just expressed my feelings much more eloquently than I could have done myself. Thank you!
12821I do wish that we all could get along. & I hope that we will find our dear friend ERIC back joking around with all of us again.
11264Thank you Leslie. You can usually tell when something is good as that's when other people try to attack it and bring it down.
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