Your words are very powerful and indeed I couldn't have put it better. What you are saying is the very core of why the American system has shown to fail time and time again. The obsession with retribution rather than rehabilitation is an emotional reaction of fear and hatred. But how does that do anyone good? We can't react to criminals with our primitive emotions we have to react smart. Although, there may be a few criminals who lack the ability to rehabilitate I believe that most people in jail want to leave a good/peaceful life. The american mindset has to change from one of making a monster of criminals to the idea that people can be rehabilitated. Until then we will continue to have violence on our streets and in prison. There are many people who see it the way you do on the outside. We believe that rehabilitation is more important than vengeance and that it is more beneficial to us and a community to give prisoners a chance to become better people. After all, many prisoners are not the scum of the earth. They're just normal people who made mistakes, who had bad childhoods, neglectful parents, and grew up around drugs and violence. We need to break the cycle instead of fueling hatred. It takes ethical and emotional progress and people with an open heart to create such a change. Wishing you all the best on your journey.
Just because it's not necessarily his, does not mean that it shouldn't be out there floating around, getting read. Tim is not trying to "take credit" for it, Tim is trying to get people to read shit. Instead of being the dumb fucks that you watch we all were. "Taking credit" for it would mean he's obtaining financial benefits, which he is clearly not.
Just be glad he's not Sean Swain. Trust me, I'm more likely to believe that if Tim is anything bad, he probably got that way After going prison. So much for the redeeming & rehabilitative properties of the Massachusetts penal system, eh?
Derrick, I have been looking all over for u for yrs and finally found out u were locked up after looking through tdcj if i couldn't find u anywhere else. Shocked at the charge but the life u lived it was only a matter of time. Haven't seen u since we were teens. U were my boo. Seeing u in the grove off Buckner. Hopefully this the same derrick i only know one with ur last name. Boy u got locked up early probably after we stopped talking. I will try to jpay u. Keep your head up and stay out of trouble. Luv Ravan
Hi there, so glad to see that your eyes have now been opened to such a peaceful and god fearing existance now that you are being forced to remain behind bars. I cant help but wonder however that had you never been caught for the horrific life altering crimes you have committed that you would have been singing the same tune. I find it impossible to be able to take you seriously nor find any truth to the words that you write considering i know what you did to my loved one's family, as well as the ruin that your hate has left her family to become. It is relatively easy from your cell to talk the talk and to become born again into this newfound way of living, and i thank god every day that you will never see the light of a free day for as long as you are on this earth. You are still that same man who took the lives of women way before it was there rightful time, and nothing you say can change that. If only you were able to see all of the pain and destruction you have caused to the family of Amanda, maybe then you would righteously have a reason to be god fearing. Death row is a good place for you, although if it were up to me, you would have been dispatched from this earth in a similar method to that of which you have dealt. I pray that you one day the pain you have done to my loved ones will finally diminish, and that justice will take you off of the row and into the arms of your maker down below. Until then i will continue to consider the words you write as an amusement, as words that have no soul. When have lived your life doing work for the devil by your own choice, it means nothing to pretend to do work for god behind bars. Good luck to you.. as you will likely need it in the life after this one..
there is no wrong flower, no wrong emotion, no wrong thing. we chose our gurus/beliefs and carnally cling to them.
Graffiti incident. I said writing on top of others graffiti was same as trespassing. you giggled and wrote on top of others graffiti anyway.. what are the odds the guys would show up two minutes later and teach you a lesson?
thanks buddy. LOL should i care now? i gave less of a fuck about life than you did. but at least i respected others boundaries.
boundaries being bulldozed isn't cool.. if they are your boundaries.. everyone realizes that. and it became a game of who controls the most boundaries.. mentally and physically
it's a wonderful world. Now is what YOU chose it to be.. knowing all the options included the one you're enjoying. terrible life but you lived it anyway? idts.. stop playing victim of universe, unseen forces or whatever
YOU are it. as much a part of NOW as anyone or anything else. no make excuses why you aren't. YOUR choice buddy.
I think your last piece about determination is a perfect gloss for the chess picture. We find ourselves in these difficult chess games, in which the opponent is none other than ourselves. At the same time, as you say, the key to our strength and victory is ALSO ourselves. We can, often at the same time, be our greatest enemies and allies. It's key to focus on our winning selves, and rely on that for determination. Afterwards are the spoils of winning! A spiritual growing for beating the evil and sadness in you. I think your honest admission about your heavy heart is brilliant. It's so natural for us to get down. Strength is not about whether we get down or not; it's about how we eventually conquer these feelings in the battle of "weakness versus strength". Let us know any other pondering on character you might have. Such is intellectually stimulating and spiritually invigorating. Take care. --Calhoun25
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Your words are very powerful and indeed I couldn't have put it better. What you are saying is the very core of why the American system has shown to fail time and time again. The obsession with retribution rather than rehabilitation is an emotional reaction of fear and hatred. But how does that do anyone good? We can't react to criminals with our primitive emotions we have to react smart. Although, there may be a few criminals who lack the ability to rehabilitate I believe that most people in jail want to leave a good/peaceful life. The american mindset has to change from one of making a monster of criminals to the idea that people can be rehabilitated. Until then we will continue to have violence on our streets and in prison. There are many people who see it the way you do on the outside. We believe that rehabilitation is more important than vengeance and that it is more beneficial to us and a community to give prisoners a chance to become better people. After all, many prisoners are not the scum of the earth. They're just normal people who made mistakes, who had bad childhoods, neglectful parents, and grew up around drugs and violence. We need to break the cycle instead of fueling hatred. It takes ethical and emotional progress and people with an open heart to create such a change. Wishing you all the best on your journey.
--peace& love
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Just because it's not necessarily his, does not mean that it shouldn't be out there floating around, getting read.
Tim is not trying to "take credit" for it, Tim is trying to get people to read shit. Instead of being the dumb fucks that you watch we all were. "Taking credit" for it would mean he's obtaining financial benefits, which he is clearly not.
Just be glad he's not Sean Swain.
Trust me, I'm more likely to believe that if Tim is anything bad, he probably got that way After going prison.
So much for the redeeming & rehabilitative properties of the Massachusetts penal system, eh?
They're trying.
Luv Ravan
we chose our gurus/beliefs and carnally cling to them.
Graffiti incident.
I said writing on top of others graffiti was same as trespassing.
you giggled and wrote on top of others graffiti anyway.. what are the odds the guys would show up two minutes later and teach you a lesson?
thanks buddy.
LOL
should i care now?
i gave less of a fuck about life than you did.
but at least i respected others boundaries.
boundaries being bulldozed isn't cool.. if they are your boundaries.. everyone realizes that.
and it became a game of who controls the most boundaries.. mentally and physically
it's a wonderful world.
Now is what YOU chose it to be.. knowing all the options included the one you're enjoying.
terrible life but you lived it anyway?
idts.. stop playing victim of universe, unseen forces or whatever
YOU are it.
as much a part of NOW as anyone or anything else.
no make excuses why you aren't. YOUR choice buddy.
I think your last piece about determination is a perfect gloss for the chess picture. We find ourselves in these difficult chess games, in which the opponent is none other than ourselves. At the same time, as you say, the key to our strength and victory is ALSO ourselves. We can, often at the same time, be our greatest enemies and allies. It's key to focus on our winning selves, and rely on that for determination. Afterwards are the spoils of winning! A spiritual growing for beating the evil and sadness in you. I think your honest admission about your heavy heart is brilliant. It's so natural for us to get down. Strength is not about whether we get down or not; it's about how we eventually conquer these feelings in the battle of "weakness versus strength". Let us know any other pondering on character you might have. Such is intellectually stimulating and spiritually invigorating. Take care.
--Calhoun25