Why are you here?

[East Coast Hustle]

I'm here because I couldn't allow you all to be subjected to any more Gay Caribbean Disco forum skins.

[LMNO]

And we thank thee, o benevolent dictator.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Damn, you made me think Nigel....  NOT FAIR in the AM 

Well, my son and I were lurking on MW and spent most of our time reading what was written in the Discordian sub forum there.  THEN those idiot facist pig bastards over at MW decided to ban everyone with a brain so we sort of "followed" them to MA, then to EB&G and then here.... 

I stayed because while there are laughs to be had here, there is also a base group of highly intelligent (though at times a bit eccentric) and exceptionally talented people who's work and ideas I have come to respect a lot.  I also got involved in some things and was able to get my kids involved in some of the poster and sticker gasms.  We still do cookie gasms too. 

One of the things I appreciate of most members here is there is, for the most part, an underlying "live and let it go" factor that is in play here.  I know I have made people here mad, and some have done the same for me, BUT.... it stayed in the thread it was pertaining to and I've never felt there were grudges being held against me on a personal level.  There are a few (and you know who you are  ) who worry the shit to the bone marrow, but most let shit go.  It's the internet afterall....

Also, I'm really old now and this place has become a habit.....  


EDITED TO ADD......  Ignore the above post, I am here because of Roger's mind rays and that is the only reason I am here.....  That is all.....

[Brotep]

I am here for laughs, and maybe to exchange ideas with other...post-occultists

[Cramulus]

  "post-occult" ... I've never heard that one before.

[Kai]

I'm here from inertia mostly. I got involved here 4 years ago and I guess I have stuck around because people make me feel welcome here. Yeah, it doesn't make much sense if you are new, but alot of these old members are some of the oldest friends I have, on or offline. Secondarily I'm here for the lulz and to learn, and also to teach (to anyone who can stand to listen).

Its probably the whole gang mentality more than anything. Being part of this community gives me family, friends, motivation, and purpose.

[Cramulus]

            The community gives you purpose
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                                 Excellent.
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[Brotep]

^good poster

"post-occult" ... I've never heard that one before.

Made it up on the spot because I enjoy discussing the occult but don't believe in it.  Just looking for deeper insight into self and others and the world around us, by examining and breaking down perspectives and beliefs.

I'm here from inertia mostly. I got involved here 4 years ago and I guess I have stuck around because people make me feel welcome here. Yeah, it doesn't make much sense if you are new, but alot of these old members are some of the oldest friends I have, on or offline. Secondarily I'm here for the lulz and to learn, and also to teach (to anyone who can stand to listen).

Its probably the whole gang mentality more than anything. Being part of this community gives me family, friends, motivation, and purpose.

It's good to have a circle of friends to fall back on, some kind of constant amidst the disorder ( ) of life.

btw, thanks for not automatically blocking me again on IRC 

[Kai]

Well yeah. I think many people disregard the people THEY know online as not being friends equal to the ones they know outside the internet, but I see it quite opposite. Its comforting to know that if you are in deep shit somewhere far from home, someone cool is not far away, and that no matter where you go, a friend is not too distant.

[Brotep]

Well said.

Also, whether or not I might agree with the particular beliefs of people on this forum, I bet we communicate in the same idiom, so to speak.

[Cramulus]

Well said.

Also, whether or not I might agree with the particular beliefs of people on this forum, I bet we communicate in the same idiom, so to speak.

I'm a total spag for replying with a RAW quote, but nevertheless:


Celine reared back as if I had waved offal under his nose. "Objectivists?" he pronounced the word as if I had accused him of being a child-molester. "We're anarchists and outlaws, goddam it. Didn't you understand that much? We've got nothing to do with right-wing, left-wing or any other half-assed political category. If you work within the system, you come to one of the either/or choices that were implicit in the system from the beginning. You're talking like a medieval serf, asking the first agnostic whether he worships God or the Devil. We're outside the system's categories. You'll never get the hang of our game if you keep thinking in flat-earth imagery of right and left, good and evil, up and down. If you need a group label for us, we're political non-Euclideans. But even that's not true. Sink me, nobody of this tub agrees with anybody else about anything, except maybe what the fellow with the horns told the old man in the clouds: Non serviam."

Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, Illuminatus!

[Brotep]

In your defense, it is a pretty cool quote.

[Manta Obscura]

Well said.

Also, whether or not I might agree with the particular beliefs of people on this forum, I bet we communicate in the same idiom, so to speak.

I'm a total spag for replying with a RAW quote, but nevertheless:


Celine reared back as if I had waved offal under his nose. "Objectivists?" he pronounced the word as if I had accused him of being a child-molester. "We're anarchists and outlaws, goddam it. Didn't you understand that much? We've got nothing to do with right-wing, left-wing or any other half-assed political category. If you work within the system, you come to one of the either/or choices that were implicit in the system from the beginning. You're talking like a medieval serf, asking the first agnostic whether he worships God or the Devil. We're outside the system's categories. You'll never get the hang of our game if you keep thinking in flat-earth imagery of right and left, good and evil, up and down. If you need a group label for us, we're political non-Euclideans. But even that's not true. Sink me, nobody of this tub agrees with anybody else about anything, except maybe what the fellow with the horns told the old man in the clouds: Non serviam."

Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, Illuminatus!

You would be a total spag with or without the quote, Cram. 

But yeah, Anton is right, that quote is pretty nanners. I generally didn't like Hagbard, but he said some neat things throughout the novels.

[East Coast Hustle]

that's probably the best paragraph in the whole Illuminatus! trilogy.

[Brotep]

that's probably the best paragraph in the whole Illuminatus! trilogy.

That's good to hear, because I've pretty much forgotten the rest of it