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Define: Friends

Edward said:
What makes a friend, a friend? What is it about them or how they are to you that gives them the designation of friend?

Good, bad, humorous, true...I want to hear it all...
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A good friend freaking calls their other friend and tells them about their angelic experience. Does not make other friend wait. Wife wanted to hear it also.
 
Brother Mike said:
A good friend freaking calls their other friend and tells them about their angelic experience. Does not make other friend wait. Wife wanted to hear it also.
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I'm so sorry, Brother. I forgot. :oops2

I'll give ya a call tomorrow evening. What time zone are you on?
 
Edward said:
I feel the same as you do. I've never been a trophy hunter or sport hunter, I've ate everything I've killed.

And the defensive part is a necessity nowadays. I had an attempted home invasion when I was still living in Colorado and by the grace of God, I didn't have to shoot him. It went like this, knock at the door, I answered it and some big stocky guy asked if he could use my cell phone because he was broke down.

My Spidey sense started tingling (lol) so I said no, and it was on. He attacked and tried to force his way in. We fought on the front porch, busted the screen door glass, and then we broke apart, which gave me opportunity to draw my pistol which I pointed at his face, expecting him to run...

He didn't. He looked at me for two or three seconds, then started towards me! (What kind of idiot advances towards a drawn 45?!)

That's when things went into slow motion. I didn't want to shoot him, and the cops frown on warning shots. But I reasoned, do I have time to fire a warning shot into the grass (while retreating into the house) and still have time to shoot him if he still kept coming? I figured I did.

So that's what I did. Fired a single shot into the grass beside the porch, while retreating. It worked. The sound of the shot made him run...and I began praising God that he did.

I've read that shooting someone affects you and changes you. I don't want that. I did everything right. Repelled the invasion and without shooting him. :)
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Good example.
Glad it turned out that way.
Thanks for posting this.

Wondering
 
All my friends growing up made me laugh a lot. What can I say? Silly is silly. Matt is hilarious!
 
(Today, Matt literally had lint in his belly button.)
 
Edward said:
I'm so sorry, Brother. I forgot. :oops2

I'll give ya a call tomorrow evening. What time zone are you on?
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Your an hour ahead. call 8:30 pm your time. If you have Skype, even better so the wife can hear it. She asked me. did Edward call yet? NOPE, Edward is still defining friends on the forums..... He will call though.
 
No. :) He's my husband. This message board is my thing. But he says hello to you guys!
 
I have found over the decades that human behavior ,concerning morals/ethics etc, can only be controlled in movies, books, stories...what have you. In real life situations people are fickle, erratic, unreliable. Friends, or rather those I thought were friends, betrayed me at one point or another when given enough rope to do so. They would help me one minute during one set of circumstances then betray me the next in another set of circumstances. I used to give people all the rope they need to feel it "safe" to betray me so that any evil within them will surface. Some who betrayed me would repent/atone and the friendship would continue on firmer ground than before. Others betrayed then use the hide/lie/deny route. A sure way for me to dump that relationship.
 
I have --1-- real friend. Yes, its Verna, my Pentecostal friend who helps guide me through so much. I have some friendly acquaintances, but I don't think of them as a bona fide friends, not when I'm being honest with myself.

A friend is someone who you can spend time with and "do" life with, to a point, and you both care about each other and accept each other. An acquaintance, to me, is someone you can kill time with and do polite convo with and maybe having outings with now and then, phone calls, etc.

I'm beginning to realize that friends are great, but they're increasingly rare. I look at my parents, and I see that they don't have any friends now, and I wonder(ed): why? And then I thought about it, and I think its better that way. The way the world is, the way its going, people aren't genuine friends to each other, not often. If you're on the same level of society, they'll be polite and talk and all, but its not really friendship. Maybe humans have always been this way?

I look at the "friends" from my past and they weren't friends. Not even just talking about the drug "friends" and such. I mean, even in High School. Not friends. Not really. And now, its like...its like people get hardened as they got older (usually), and then its almost impossible to have a real, genuine, bona fide friend. No more BFFs, no more play dates, kids. I think its especially true for men, especially after 25 or so.
 
Most descriptions of friends that I hear from questions like this usually describe really mature or really dovote people. I know some who are not dovote, but are still a friend as far as I can tell. And I know of friendships that are far from mature but they are stable with regards to the people in that friendship. Or even a friend being a friend o another because they need one, not because they are a good one in return. Because of these, I find it hard to define what makes a person a friend. For me though a friend is someone I can laugh with, can be concerned about, or can rely on. Any of those things or a combination of them are what I usually consider a friend.
 
Brother Mike said:
Your an hour ahead. call 8:30 pm your time. If you have Skype, even better so the wife can hear it. She asked me. did Edward call yet? NOPE, Edward is still defining friends on the forums..... He will call though.
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That should work even if I work late again. I didn't get home until 7 last night:coffee
 
An acquaintance is a person I might enjoy a cup of Coffee with or go to the Donut Shop for. A friend is the person that might know the worst about you and would forgive you anyway, just as you would him or her.
 
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