Who are YOU going to be?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

This is what happens when you don't control your water.  You let it run around loose.  You won't have it when you need it, because it flew away.

We also have a whole bunch of it lying on the ground, getting in the way.

You put water IN stuff.  That way, you'll have it when you need it.

Nature is far too sloppy about this sort of thing.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

This thread is actually a really good reminder that i really need to be regimented in order not to let everything go. Ive always had problems with aimlessness and procrastination if left to my own devices. It would probably benefit me immensely to get in the habit of short and long term to do lists and be really stubborn about each task until a task shows of that it is either really impractical or improbable.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This is what happens when you don't control your water.  You let it run around loose.  You won't have it when you need it, because it flew away.

We also have a whole bunch of it lying on the ground, getting in the way.

You put water IN stuff.  That way, you'll have it when you need it.

Nature is far too sloppy about this sort of thing.

I'm having trouble finding a container big enough.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

PD is 169% of the reason I write.  And looking back on my early stuff, it's been a big help in every way.

It has changed me in many, many positive ways. Probably a huge factor in going back to school, but by far the biggest way PD has helped me is by calling me on my shit and making me grow the fuck up.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

PD is 169% of the reason I write.  And looking back on my early stuff, it's been a big help in every way.

It has changed me in many, many positive ways. Probably a huge factor in going back to school, but by far the biggest way PD has helped me is by calling me on my shit and making me grow the fuck up.

Likewise.

Also, thank you and Roger specifically.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Also, while I do consider some form of pantheism/deism my baseline spirituality, PD has helped me break away form religious nonsense. I'm probably always going to need some sort of ritual structure/theology/afterlife belief but I'm now aware that that's really just for my benefit rather than some reflection of reality. This is another reason why I feel like hopping religions at certain intervals and taking the best bits from each with me and figuring out why.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

PD is 169% of the reason I write.  And looking back on my early stuff, it's been a big help in every way.

It has changed me in many, many positive ways. Probably a huge factor in going back to school, but by far the biggest way PD has helped me is by calling me on my shit and making me grow the fuck up.

Same here.  I was a very different guy in the 2003-2005 era.  Perpetually butthurt, too damn angry to stop being angry.  Granted, this was a very different place back then, but I allowed the assholes to define me.  And I was far too worried about other peoples' opinion of me and what I was writing at the time.

Which is why the mirthful grin I wear when I'm going after RWHN has begun to fade a bit.

More on that last bit later.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

This is what happens when you don't control your water.  You let it run around loose.  You won't have it when you need it, because it flew away.

We also have a whole bunch of it lying on the ground, getting in the way.

You put water IN stuff.  That way, you'll have it when you need it.

Nature is far too sloppy about this sort of thing.

I'm having trouble finding a container big enough.

IT'S JUST SITTING THERE!  IT'S GONNA EVAPORATE AND EVERYONE WILL DIE!

[EK WAFFLR]

PD has changed me rather radically since I came here not even two years ago.
Thanks guise. <3

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This is what happens when you don't control your water.  You let it run around loose.  You won't have it when you need it, because it flew away.

We also have a whole bunch of it lying on the ground, getting in the way.

You put water IN stuff.  That way, you'll have it when you need it.

Nature is far too sloppy about this sort of thing.

I'm having trouble finding a container big enough.

IT'S JUST SITTING THERE!  IT'S GONNA EVAPORATE AND EVERYONE WILL DIE!

That's the craziest part... more just keeps falling into it from the sky. It never ends. We're buried in the stuff. 10 months out of the year we live in a perpetual damp twilight. Everything is moldy.

Everything is moldy.

Everyone has a sinus infection, and radioactive gas is coming out of the ground.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The natives called this place "The Valley of Sickness". Nobody lived here; they came here to fish and then retreated to the safety of the mountains.

But not whitey. Nope, whitey took a look at it and said "Let's call it Portland!" and built a city. A city where everybody is sick, confused, and depressed.

I love this town and will never leave. It's the most beautiful place I've ever seen.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

That's the craziest part... more just keeps falling into it from the sky. It never ends. We're buried in the stuff. 10 months out of the year we live in a perpetual damp twilight. Everything is moldy.

Everything is moldy.

Everyone has a sinus infection, and radioactive gas is coming out of the ground.

ALTERNATE WORLD PROBLEMS, ITT.

TGRR,
Posting from the Mos Eisley Cantina.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I actually looked up "the valley of sickness" thing and it turns out that it's pretty much a myth designed to make white people feel good about giving all the indians smallpox and tuberculosis and herding them onto reservations and stealing the richest farmland in the world from them.

Nonetheless, everything is still all moldy and we live in perpetual twilight and there is still radioactive gas leaking out of the ground. This is a wonderful place.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I actually looked up "the valley of sickness" thing and it turns out that it's pretty much a myth designed to make white people feel good about giving all the indians smallpox and tuberculosis and herding them onto reservations and stealing the richest farmland in the world from them.

Nonetheless, everything is still all moldy and we live in perpetual twilight and there is still radioactive gas leaking out of the ground. This is a wonderful place.

We have loads of radiation, here.  But we PUT it there.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I actually looked up "the valley of sickness" thing and it turns out that it's pretty much a myth designed to make white people feel good about giving all the indians smallpox and tuberculosis and herding them onto reservations and stealing the richest farmland in the world from them.

Nonetheless, everything is still all moldy and we live in perpetual twilight and there is still radioactive gas leaking out of the ground. This is a wonderful place.

We have loads of radiation, here.  But we PUT it there.

Ours is natural, and therefore healthy.