House without a Soul

I just got home, and I have read every post carefully. Thank you and I didn't expect such a response.

I am feeling O.K. today. My wife and daughter are well- I can't really ask for much more. We will be getting an alarm system and a few other *deterrents* in the near future- all kid friendly of course.

I am not a violent person- but I do draw the line at someone in my home. As for the police officer on the forum- thank you for your comments. I have a decently-trained background and the loss of the khukuries bothered me because I had trained with them.

I am not at a completely compassionate disposition right now, but maybe in time I will be again.

Thank you, everyone for the support, very much. It is heart felt and wasn't expected.

 
Quietone,
what happened to you stinks. It happened to me long ago and it is very hard to deal with the reality of someone taking your things. Your family is safe and the thieves will be dealt with. I am sorry it happened.
Karma.

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Quietone,

My parent's store also was broken into. I also installed a cheap security system from Radio Shack on the store. The alarm was reliable (at least it could detect my attempts to by pass it). It would even dail 3 numbers and play a recorded messge. Your wife might find some comfort in the panic button. If I had it my way I would have rigged it up to a pepper spay canistor (the potential for accidents and common sense prevailed).

Also put out alarm stickers even if you don't have an alarm.

Will
 
Thoughts of peace and love, and sorrow for those who draw destruction onto themselves. Maybe they will still allow themselves to learn and grow; maybe they will just come back as something nicer.
 
My first HI was a 16.5" WWII that I bought a few years ago. It has become my absolute favorite knife. I have chopped wood with it for friendly bonfires. I have cleared brush and saplings with it for my family and a friend or two. I have worked with it. I have played with it. I have learned with it. I have grown with it.

I can only begin to imagine the sorrow, pain, and anger that Quietone feels. Someday I may part with my favorite khukuri, if so, than I hope that it is under my conditions. I don't know if I could bear the alternative.

Bob



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The Milk Snake: Beautiful, harmless, good-natured, eats venomous snakes for lunch.
 
Thanks for the posts. I am having a pretty good day today. I'm sorry for bringing bad news to the forum Monday. I took a half day off from work to study for an exam tonight.
I found myself home alone and mildly paranoid of little sounds. I kept wondering if it was someone coming in the house.

I guess my sense of humour is coming through, I am amazed at my human nature and getting a little jumpy at the sound of a Robin rustling through the pine straw outside.

I went to the police dept last night to give them a supplamentary report. The officer in charge did everything short of laughing. There isn't anything they can really do. I was amazed. I live in a suburb of Atlanta (there is one problem) and there are no community programs that he was aware of. So- I may try to initiate one this summer.

We are getting an alarm system this weekend, which is making my wife very happy. I will feel better too knowing she can hit a button if I am not home and trigger an alarm.

I want to thank everyone for the comments. You have really picked my spirits up. Bob, my sentiments exactly. I could pick my khukuries out of 1000.
 
Quiet One: I'm in Duluth. I was thinking of your situation while working out a nick in my 16.5 WW II this morning before work. If you ever need a friend close by,

here I am.
 
There's a quote from the gospels that goes, " Lay not up your treasures where moth and rust doth corrupt and theives break in and steal."

I'm not a Christian, but I surely like that quote.

Billy the dog lays around all day at our house and plays with the kids. He knows his job is to keep a sharp ear out for disturbances. He does his job well.

 
Isn't it obvious?

Stainless steel khukuris!

Just kidding.
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Uncle Bill,you are thinking of the high path ( forgiveness ) versus nature's law ( chop his head off ). Practice the middle way - castrate him first and THEN forgive him.

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That is a brain teaser!

I think it means don't collect/possess more treasure than you can store openly without arousing jealousy and greed in your fellow man. Sounds like a perscription for a more harmonious society. Or a communist solution to crime
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But then again, maybe it says that craving for possesions is the root of all suffering--craving for more of your own, and craving in your neighbors heart caused by seeing your treasure next door. This is Uncle Bill's territory I think. I am too deep in the craving to have a clear perspective I fear
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Just a guess...
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Rob
 
I believe Rusty has both the proper philosophy and procedural order - After all, if you forgave before you collected hueves, your credibility could be questioned. His way, there is no doubt about your sincerety.

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I think that quote is advice. Don't set your heart on what, by its nature, can pass away or be destroyed. Instead consider your treasure to be that which no one and nothing can take away; your good will, honor, virtue, righteousness, integrity or whatever other words you want to use.

Same advice in Epictetus: Don't consider a thing to be lost when it passes from you, but rather returned to where it came from. Also from the Bible . . . "The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord."

It is a good one. I'll have to lay that one aside in my own little trove.
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