Ugh!
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To: Undisclosed-Recipient
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Yeah, dead giveaway this is just another chain email.
Subject: friends
😏Meme1: Subject: Fw: Loooooooooove this! please send back!
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Oh, great… *Sigh*�
Meme2: Subject: friends
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: *Grimace* Oh, botheration! Obviously a chain letter has whacked another person in the heart and they just went and sent it on, and I was one of the *cough* lucky recipients... Ugh! I mean think about it. A personally written email from a friend isn't likely to have either type of subject header as found in these chain letters.
Meme2: To a beautiful friend
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: *Wince* Right off the bat, I know this goop wasn't actually written by a friend. Only a chain letter starts out this sappy.
Meme2: Please do not break this
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Yeah, I see what you did there. 1. The "beautiful friend" thing is the initial butter-up. The "please" is the deliberately pleading language. Both tactics are designed to soften up an internet user's heart sufficiently so they will do what this chain letter demands - send it on to more people.
The magic word is powerless when wielded against me by a chain letter. I'll do more than break it, this chain is getting smashed.
😏Meme1: Concentrate on this Sentence 'To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.'
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: What's so incredibly profound about that? Duh, I have lived a little, you know…
😏Meme1: When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Oh, give it a rest already, and stop bringing God into these chain letters!
In fact, this particular forward went around like wild fire since at least as far back as 2010,. So much that it is the infamous "Christian chain letter" discussed in the post on this site.
But -
I'm glad to report that it isn't exclusive to Christians.
It was reposted on this Muslim blog on February 16, 2010.
No, I've figured out that God isn't punishing me every time something doesn't go my way, every second of my life! But God's not by any means the only one giving stuff out and taking it away!
😏Meme1: � Concentrate on this sentence... 'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.'
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Sorry to burst your bubble again, but, over-simplifying things into a basic "don't worry, God will always protect you" just doesn't work, especially not in the form of a silly chain forward! Not everything that happens in life, is God's will. Not everything that isn't God's will, even gets stopped from happening. Where was God's protection whenever prisoners of war were tortured and murdered, and innocent men, women and children were being abused and killed by other non-innocent men, women, and even children all throughout human history? I don't like to be a downer, but the point is that unfortunately, God is not the only force at work in the world, and many people are not being protected. If everything was so idillic and honky-dory as all this, all bullies, tyrants, and others who commit abuse would be stopped dead in their tracks. But they are not, and while some people eventually get protected and survive it somehow, others are not so fortunate.
😏Meme1: Something good will happen to you today; something that you have been waiting to hear.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Bull.
😏Meme1: This is not a joke;
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: So who's laughing? You haven't made me produce even a glimmer of a smile so far… *glares* There's something YOU should be made aware of! *Lunges and cyber-pummels chain letter originator* I - do - NOT - like hoaxers in the first place, but those who claim their junk is no joke - IRRITATE - THE - LIVING - HECK - out of me!
Yes, it is a big joke to you! But are you still laughing after that cyber-smackdown, huh?
😏Meme1: someone will call you by phone or will speak to you about something that you were waiting to hear. � Do not break! �
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: You can't make anybody call me with stuff I wanna hear via this silly junky chain email!
😏😼Memes: Send it to a minimum of 3 people... � Not before you read below
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I'm not sending it to anyone, and do you really want a chain-smasher to read this? The outcome won't be what you're expecting. I don't like anonymous hoaxers appealing to my friends and conning them via sappy sweet or other phoney tactics into sending on crud that just goes around to zillions of other people.
😏😼Memes: There comes a point in your life when you realize: �
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Realize sending chain letters is stupid?
😏😼Memes: Who matters,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: And if they do, you won't send them any more stupid virals?
😏😼Memes: Who never did,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: That would be those you have always sent this junk to, right?
😏😼Memes: Who won't anymore...
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Because you let yourself get sucked into passing on fake flowers with or without sappy faux religion and bogus claims about phones ringing, instead of actually writing anything worth while, I see… I only matter enough to get sent fake friendship spammy chain letters. Nice. Ugh!
😏😼Memes: And who always will.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: If they always will matter, then show it and stop passing on hokey chain letters..
😏😼Memes: So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: *cough* Yeah, because their future is different from mine and maybe, just maybe not everybody's meant to stay connected throughout all their lives…No? Seriously, enough with the cheesiness!
😏😼Memes: Give these flowers to everyone you don't want to lose in
😏Meme1: 2010 �
Meme2: 2016
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: More stinky yellow roses on the road? BLECH! NO, THANKS! These chain letter flowers have been wafting around since at least as far back as 2010, with the date being changed every year to reflect the current time so that anyone not keeping track of repeat re-sends will think it's a new thing. They stunk back then and will always stink!
😏😼Memes: Including me, if that's what is in your heart.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Forget it! This is still an info-collecting racket disguising itself as "friendship flowers" but is a chain letter that hoaxers use to collect information from whoever they can find spreading their gunk. I'm not resending this stupid chain back to anyone who sent it to me either. If everyone did that, the net would crash! *Facepalm* I didn't want these obnoxious viral blumes from you or anyone else in the first place, I do not believe God has such a tight grip on the world that he prevents all bad things and everybody gets protected all of the time, nor do I believe these flowers issue from somebody's heart and will ala-ka-zam make the phone ring with something I want to hear, and I'm not hung up on every little person in my past.
😏😼Memes: Try to collect
😏Meme1: � 8 ;
Meme2: 5;
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I personally got two versions of this in my email and have seen it reposted elsewhere. I do not want to "collect" 8 or 5 or any number. Who would? Seriously, who in their right mind wants to actually collect 8 copies of this freaking chain letter!? Or even 5 copies? I noticed the quota went down from 8 in 2010 to 5 in 2016. Hoaxer trick. Both versions demand the chain be sent to 3 people. None of that is going to happen here.
😏😼Memes: it's not easy!
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: forwarding this pile of schlock to 8 or 5 or 3 people? Easiest thing in the world to do! How much effort does it take to hit the forward button and key in a list of addresses or repost it on some social network? Just because you say it's not easy doesn't mean it's not easy! You're just saying that to trick people into believing they're doing something especially special and profoundly difficult! What a sham!
�😏Meme1: Have a great and blessed day.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Oh, shut it!
Over and out!
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