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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #50 on: November 17, 2005, 02:38:29 PM »
Because it's 173 more than 827.  Duh.
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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #51 on: November 17, 2005, 04:55:09 PM »
Although I see why Godwin's Law is necessary - where were you in the Nutmare of Semantics thread? - I don't know that I can completely condone the arbitrary ending of tangential discussion. Except when the moderator tells you too. Of course.
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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #52 on: November 17, 2005, 06:05:31 PM »
Although I see why Godwin's Law is necessary - where were you in the Nutmare of Semantics thread?

 To my everlasting shame I did post in the 'Nutmare's Semantic Challenge' thread.

Eh, on SHS I guest-posted for a month to keep the 1000'th post, and the result was this: http://forums.spellholdstudios.net/index.php?showtopic=17554

 Now that's the way to celebrate a milestone post. :)

Why is the number 350 significant?

 It has no significance. I just happened notice that my post would be #350. Although I do think 350 could be a significant number, if you smoked 350 cigarettes, you would probably be a smoker, if you did methamphetamines 350 times, you would be a meth addict and if you had sex 350 times, you'd probably wouldn't be a virgin. In relation to PPG? Who knows what it might mean? Probably nothing.

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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #53 on: November 17, 2005, 06:12:41 PM »
You're a PPG addict.  Hello and welcome.  I'm working on getting myself addicted so I can join the meetings, too.

...if you had sex 350 times, you'd probably wouldn't be a virgin.

Unless you were really bad at it... ;D

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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #54 on: November 17, 2005, 06:16:28 PM »
I kinda like the number 666. I may stop posting once I achieve that goal.



















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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #55 on: November 18, 2005, 06:49:59 AM »
You're a PPG addict.  Hello and welcome.  I'm working on getting myself addicted so I can join the meetings, too.

Do you mean RL meetings? I guess it's not a high post count that makes you get an invitation, but a high activity (and valuable contribution) in IRC. :)
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« Reply #56 on: November 18, 2005, 08:06:09 AM »
I kinda like the number 666. I may stop posting once I achieve that goal.

I prefer 616.
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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #57 on: November 18, 2005, 09:46:19 AM »
You're a PPG addict.  Hello and welcome.  I'm working on getting myself addicted so I can join the meetings, too.


        Ah, the eternal question of post counts. Sadly, on the net a 350 post count probably counts for nothing unless you were able to run up the count in a week. I recall a recent forum member, at another forum, who posted something close to 2000 posts over a period of two months, and not short posts or posts comprised of emoticons, but impassioned monologues that went on for pages. I was astonished and somewhat awestruck when I noticed the count but when I mentioned it in IRC ( :-[)  my remark caused no comment.  

       Perhaps it recalled to the IRC members fond days of their tweendom when they acquired their first ear on Diablo online, or perhaps their face burned with painful recollection of their first feeble forays into the world of forums or IRC and the painful shrieks of "NEWBIE!" that greeted their rudimentary attempts at 'net communication? Or perhaps it even recalled their first truimphant hacking of their parents back account that lead to that healthy off-shore account that all denizens of IRC have? Or perhaps they thought a 2000 post count in a period of two months was simply amateur work?

       At 350 posts I feel no need for an intervention or membership in a self-help group yet.  :-\

I guess it's not a high post count that makes you get an invitation, but a high activity (and valuable contribution) in IRC. :)

      IRC would be great except for two little problems, lack of anonymity (for most of us) and of course there is always some damn little archivist (human or otherwise) that logs every damn thing that is said. The best aspect of IRC is that it can be very funny.


      My biggest concern about my life on the net is the temptation to rudeness, or perhaps I fear my inevitable(?) decline to rudeness. I actually felt compelled to apologize recently for a mocking post I made about another poster's lack of satirical ability. On the one hand, I find the pedantic bitcheries of the internet amusing, on the other hand I am not a great believer in intentional rudeness, it has always struck me that intentional rudeness in RL is a sign of a tedious and insecure personality.
 

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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #58 on: November 18, 2005, 10:20:38 AM »
I don't know if it's true what I said, it was just a guess. I don't like IRC, either, not because of the archiving, but because the people there scare the hell out of me :)
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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #59 on: November 18, 2005, 10:44:16 AM »
They scare me, too.
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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #60 on: November 18, 2005, 11:33:54 AM »
@ lack of anonymity


* jester feels so very much exposed. :)  Oh yes, and scared.
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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #61 on: November 18, 2005, 04:49:14 PM »
I scare myself sometimes.  :-\
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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #62 on: November 18, 2005, 06:20:07 PM »
I don't know of it's true what I said, it was just a guess. I don't like IRC, either, not because of the archiving, but because the people there scare the hell out of me :)
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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #63 on: November 18, 2005, 08:55:23 PM »
this thread is makin g no progresss.
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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #64 on: November 19, 2005, 11:19:20 AM »
I don't know of it's true what I said, it was just a guess. I don't like IRC, either, not because of the archiving, but because the people there scare the hell out of me :)

Evil Overlords tend to scare me as well...

Or maybe it was Vel.  ;)

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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #65 on: November 19, 2005, 03:36:48 PM »
My biggest concern about my life on the net is the temptation to rudeness, or perhaps I fear my inevitable(?) decline to rudeness. I actually felt compelled to apologize recently for a mocking post I made about another poster's lack of satirical ability. On the one hand, I find the pedantic bitcheries of the internet amusing, on the other hand I am not a great believer in intentional rudeness, it has always struck me that intentional rudeness in RL is a sign of a tedious and insecure personality.

Fear and temptation sloppily wrapped in a newpaper: that's the Internet. I share your sentiments here, Regullus.

I prefer 616.
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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #66 on: November 19, 2005, 03:40:03 PM »
@Crowley :P

So he did find the key to immortality, I take it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley

Also : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahadabra You have to love the internet. As Mj Kusanagi put it, it is indeed vast.
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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #67 on: November 19, 2005, 03:46:23 PM »
It's pronounced Crow-ly, like cro-magnon, not like cow with an "r". Ozzy was wrong.

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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #68 on: November 21, 2005, 02:42:02 PM »
      IRC (net) would be great except for two little problems, lack of anonymity (for most of us)...
   

@ lack of anonymity

* jester feels so very much exposed. :)  Oh yes, and scared.

 The below exchange is an excellent example of lack of anonymity on the 'net. For whatever reason you sign on to a forum under a new name, avatar, etc., and some Evil Texas Lawyer type of a Planewalker is going to expose your a**.  I wouldn't be surprised if they (whoever they are) don't know the name of my first born...er....okay, bad example, but I think I made my point. ;)

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« Reply #69 on: November 21, 2005, 03:41:30 PM »
 :D Good fun, good fun for all.  :D

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« Reply #70 on: November 21, 2005, 04:13:27 PM »
@Regullus: Mods can do that. They know everything. That is why I blame everything on them and nothing on the CIA which could not even predict with a 60% certainty which way an apple would fall from a tree. As much as I fear Texans I must admit icelus is one of my lesser concerns atm. :)
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« Reply #71 on: November 21, 2005, 05:55:23 PM »
:D Good fun, good fun for all.  :D

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I am not sure what I think of Crowley. Is there any one work of his people would recommend I read, to get what he's all about? I should probably read more about the A.A. too.
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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #72 on: November 21, 2005, 06:17:12 PM »
The below exchange is an excellent example of lack of anonymity on the 'net. For whatever reason you sign on to a forum under a new name, avatar, etc., and some Evil Texas Lawyer type of a Planewalker is going to expose your a**.  I wouldn't be surprised if they (whoever they are) don't know the name of my first born...er....okay, bad example, but I think I made my point. ;)

From another perspective, I see *signing up under a new name as an abuse of the anonimity the internet gives you.  In real life, if you act like an ass, you don't get a second chance.  If you're going to reinvent yourself, you should do it the good old-fashioned way--by acting like a decent human being, not trying to alter people's perception by using a scantily-clad avatar and changing your little blue stick figure thing to a pink one that aims elsewhere.

*Disclaimer: Signing up with a blatant parody account that's easily seen through even by people without access to moderatorial IP tracing doesn't count.  Thatt's like wearing a paper bag mask.  It can be fun, if immature.  Not that I condone it these days.  Damn, I'm so mature, it hurts.

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« Reply #73 on: November 21, 2005, 07:06:01 PM »
:D Good fun, good fun for all.  :D

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I am not sure what I think of Crowley. Is there any one work of his people would recommend I read, to get what he's all about? I should probably read more about the A.A. too.

Just google in "Thelema" :) .
There is a lot of sites about his system.
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Re: 'Progress?' threads
« Reply #74 on: November 21, 2005, 11:41:16 PM »
@Jester - What was the debate over Kelsey's hair color?


From another perspective, I see *signing up under a new name as an abuse of the anonimity the internet gives you.  In real life, if you act like an ass, you don't get a second chance.  If you're going to reinvent yourself, you should do it the good old-fashioned way--by acting like a decent human being, not trying to alter people's perception by using a scantily-clad avatar and changing your little blue stick figure thing to a pink one that aims elsewhere.

 Your new avatar is sublime. Your perspective is interesting but I believe you misunderstood my point. I cannot argue with anyone whose avatar is sublime as yours. Although, regardless of the sublimity of your avatar,  I would like to know how you know the avatar is scantily clad?