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#1 User is offline   Cerberus 

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Posted 04 September 2006 - 09:56 AM

Visit the Good News Network by clicking here.

Really.

Like, now would be good. Preferably instead of CNN.com or its ilk.

Bookmark it, even.

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... if you gaze too long into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes also into you. - Fredrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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#2 User is offline   themind 

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Posted 04 September 2006 - 12:50 PM

Very cool Cerebrus.

Thanks for sharing.
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Posted 04 September 2006 - 03:17 PM

Glad you pinned the link. I have been recommending this site a lot lately...here as well as to RL friends who normally aren't depressive types. Watching regular network news can really get to anyone after a while. "If it bleeds it leads" is the popular network motto.

Like Cerberus said, good stuff it out there...it just gets shadowed a lot.

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Posted 05 September 2006 - 03:06 PM

I needed this so much thanks very much. I'm still a little nuts because wellbutrin and I aren't friends but every time I get low I find something new to read on here. This rocks. I've been sending this out to everyone I know.

lilie

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 10:30 PM

Thanks, I needed this too. Have bookmarked the page as well and added it to my daily reads.

Already found something useful, the article "drinking black tea soothes away stress". No wonder i always feel a bit better after having a cup of tea. I used to think the feeling was because I'd counteracted some level of dehydration (eg upon waking up), but yeah when I think of it, water doesn't have the same effect.

Here's to drinking black tea (with milk n sugar), in fact I'm gonna have one right now.

Thanks, keep sharing the good news.

Here is a similar good news website: http://www.happynews.com/

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Previous Rx: WB 150mg/300mg, Prozac, Citalopram, Aropax.

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Posted 22 November 2006 - 01:45 AM

Another good news website: The Great News Network.

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 07:04 PM

Super websites..thanks so much...I really need them!!...I will forward to my hubby too who I'm sure will ignore them...LOL...but I will try anyway.

Dear husband is a news junkie and but doesn't get that the negativity just PAINS me right now! I just cannot handle the news anymore. Bless his heart, he is also a bit hard of hearing (construction), I am post head injury and have hyper acute hearing... so I cannot seem to get away from his blaringly negative news shows in our small home...he tends to want TV and and radio with the war and political argument on all the time. He doesn't like me telling him HE has the hearing problem. <sigh> I guess I need an IPOD with sound negating headphones on, eh? :brooding:

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Posted 21 October 2007 - 06:46 AM

Very cool--thanks!

The regular news is just waaay too depressing for me.

And it makes me mad too, so I just sit there with steam pouring out of my ears--which actually is a pretty funny sight lol!
Sanity is highly overrated.

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Posted 07 December 2007 - 10:47 PM

View PostCerberus, on Sep 4 2006, 08:56 AM, said:

Visit the Good News Network by clicking here.


I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOREVER!

THANK YOU!

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Posted 30 December 2007 - 02:23 PM

View PostMostly_Sane, on Dec 7 2007, 10:47 PM, said:

View PostCerberus, on Sep 4 2006, 08:56 AM, said:

Visit the Good News Network by clicking here.


I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOREVER!

THANK YOU!



Angelajasmine - I LOVED this on that page:
Horoscope December 30, 2007: Good news! The stars do not control your destiny. You do.

YAYY!
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Posted 05 February 2009 - 09:39 AM

Amazing that no one came up with this before. It's a great counter to the non-stop drumbeat on the other side

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Reason for edit: removed e-mail address

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Posted 13 May 2009 - 11:49 PM

You need to register and pay $2 a month after the first 30 days. I like the idea but I like free a lot more.

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Posted 25 January 2010 - 07:16 PM

It is said that people love gossip. that people love to hear other peoples woes as to make the viewers feel more secure. That may have been true in the older days when the average person watch maybe 30 minutes of network news. But now we're being bombarded with terrible news 24/7 it seems. either on CNN or the internet. It seems to have been this way since the first gulf war broke out in 1991. Though I am sure people stressed during the 1940s when theaters played news reels.
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