Male and Female Imponderables--Cry Baby Cry
POSTED BY: Tristan
UPDATED: Monday, August 14, 2006 15:47
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9/11
I was at work and somebody must of been in the internet and heard the news of the first plane.
Even though we all have our own terminals we gathered around just a couple. I guess when something like that happens you naturally gather together like it is some kind of defence.
At first we weren't sure what happened. There was only speculation. Then the second plane struck and the guessing game ended.
I have seen some bad things in my day. I mean close up and personal. People getting hurt.
TV seems to distance you. It really didn't sink in until I started hearing the personal stories of the people involved. The way the people on the fourth plane fought for their lives when they realized they had no choice. The people who talked to love ones on cellphones from the towers knowing they were not going to make it.
When they started talking about more personal episodes it started to hit home with me. Evil is out there and it will probably never go away. We can only prepare for it as best we can. It looks like they stopped a serious attempt in the United Kingdom. Rounded up a bounch of the guys. So it looks like our defences are getting better. But they will try again. But the chances of being killed by terrorists is small compared to the other ways to be killed. In my city a car pulls up to a house and someone just empties a gun into it. They don't care who is inside or who they hit. Sometimes it's a child. Their hard to catch because the car is stolen and they speed off the second the start firing.
If they could get those guys I would be happy. The only agenda they have is drugs and money. If a ten year old child gets killed they don't care.
So evil can be international and local. It is still the same.
Geekyness. This thread sure has traveled down a lot of different roads since I last came on.
If painting lead soldiers so you can fight battles on a table is geeky, than I'm there.
I didn't start till I was older and lived away from home, so my mother couldn't say much about it. But she thought it was weird. I don't speak of it much so my family really don't know what it is all about. I have a lot of interests. I'm a biker with a Harley. I read military history. First I read it to learn tactics for the games I played. Than I started discovering personal accounts of people during combat. It amazes me the courage people have in combat. I learned most of a soldiers time really isn't in actual combat but moving toward it or preparing for it. That actually seems the worst part. The waiting for battle. They want to get in there and get it over with. The waiting only adds to the tension.
At Waterloo, soldiers cleaned there muskets all night long before the battle to keep busy. This is quit common. People don't realize that most soldiers who go into combat are going for the first time. There are always alot of raw recruits who have never faced it before. That takes guts. I have grown to admire these soldiers who put their life on the line for us. It is something I don't know if I could do. I have been amazed at what a group of men can acomplish.
Well I'm going off tangent here, but this thread has many twists so I guess it is all right.
Traveler
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Responses to previous questions:
MsG:
(been forever since I've gotten a CD so in no particular order)
Serenity Soundtrack
Gaelic Storm: Herding Cats
Irish Hearts (a live recording)
Keahiwai: Satisfied
Cirque du Soleil(sp?): Allegria
t.v. shows (as in watched watched or "on for some background and look at every so often?")
Former:
Soko ga shiritai
Batman (the WB version)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward
Antiques Roadshow
Sagwa
books:
A Fistful of Charms -- Kim Harrison
Serenity (Motion Picture Adaptation) -- Kenneth R.A. DeCandio
Serenity -- Those Left Behind -- Joss Whedon
Everyday Suchness -- Gyomay M. Kubose
Today's Thought Vol. 1 -- Rev. Paul Otsumi
So what does this say about me?
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Hello Dancingneko:
I have wandering back in here on and of all weekend waiting for MSG to look at my list, but she hasn't returned.
I even sang a tune because they were discussing singing to ourselves.
How are you today? I'm about ready to go to bed myself.
Traveler
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Traveler:
I think it's just that time of the school year (school starts up almost everywhere).
As for how I am, *shrug* it's been a busy weekend, work is a short week work-wise (3 day weekend coming up), but long (I might have a 14 hour day this week). Excited that I might be able to see some friends I haven't seen in ages.
It's late afternoon here so, I can imagine the East coast is ready to crash.
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Dancingneko:
On a serious subject. Namely River6213. I just received an Email throught the network from FutureMrsFillion about Guy.
River6213 started to mess with Onthedrifts head when he entered her thread last night.
Tristan and I told him to ignor her and find a new thread. She followed him. Fortunately both Tristan and I followed as well and told Onthedrift to ignor her as we were doing.
This pissed her off. That's when she created that thread proclaiming to be several people. I think when she wasn't getting any morbid pleasure from messing with Onthedrift she created that thread to take down others with her.
Morbid does describe this person.
Guy did not deserve this.
I hope he takes a deep breath and does not leave.
I have to be honest and say I have a gut feeling this person is not done yet.
I love this verse to much let such bad things happen to it.
We have good people here and I will do anything for anyone who needs help here.
With Love For All
Traveler
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Poor onthedrift *hugs her* She's the only member of this site I've gotten to meet in the flesh. She's a sweetheart with very shiny fruity oaty shirts.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. - Gautama Siddharta
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Hello PhoenixRose:
I think Onthedrift is going to fine the last post from her seemed ok. Tristan and I got that
off her case.
That creature, who I won't describe as a Troll because that would an insult to the Troll whole community, wanted to hurt someone last night.
She couldn't get to Onthedrift so she created that thread claiming to be all thoughs other people.
I got the Email about Guy from FMF and hope he doesn't leave us. That creature just wanted to hurt someone and this what she used.
Traveler
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(Note to the imponderables: Sorry for the hijack. I thought that having said my piece on the Forsaken thread, then editing, responding, and ending it that I could come here and "hang out" away from it. My bad.)
Traveler:
I am glad there were people there to help Onthedrift when R attacked a newbie. That's not my issue.
What is my issue doesn't belong here. I posted my opinion earlier and was asked in not-so-many-words to tone it down (taken out of context, but the spirit came across that way).
I am trying to think of a "nice" way to put this. Thing is, I can't. If you want to "confront" me on the subject, PM me. Beyond that, I believe that this will be the last time I'm willing to post on a thread my opinons about the particular issue.
Showing front
Showing back
Maple leaves fall.
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Couple of more thoughts here:
I'm a pretty bad geek - not as bad as some, but I tend to outdo most geeks I know simply because I'm so damned old school. I started playing D&D when it was just D&D. A few years ago I got into a game with some undergrad buddies - and produced a die that was older than the guy running the game.
I played Battletech with the original art - before the Japanese sued them for copyright infringment..
I've played all four editions of Shadowrun.
I've been to Star Trek parties.
I once refered to my son as an 'expansion pack'
I have favorite quotes - from computer games.
See, the thing is, and many people dont get this, being a geek rules. First, its a lot of fun - often involving death, destruction, and excessive use of really big guns. Albeit pretend, and theres a lot of math and dice involved...
You can make a really good living as a geek - web design, programming, theoretically even geography.
Now, the problem used to be that well, you couldnt get laid as a geek - and part of this was that geeks tended to have no clue what to do with anyone who wasnt a geek, and female was just out of the question. But now, there are female geeks. Oh yes, I know, I married one. I know several others.
So you can have your RPGs and your scifi and so on, AND get the girl and have a life and so on.
On a less pleasant topic -
This River person, he, she, it, they. Yeah, I've met her type online before. I'm guessing 15, utterly without any social clue, and desirous of power, of control, of a way of being something they arent in person. I got the claim that he/she has 19 screen names, and you all like 6 of them and its one big experiment.
Ok, concider the first part of this post when I say this; this is so incredibly sad, this person is so socially inept that he/she has to set up an experiment to understand what people do and do not like in someone. Thats either monumentally lame, or this person has something like Aspergers, and cant understand basic social interaction.
I poked at him/her with a stick until that lost its brief amusment, and now, whatever - dont feed the energy beast. Talking to this person is pointless, wringing your hands in dismay at the horrible things he/she does will only encourage more bad behavior. Let him/her go back to the life thats made them the awful person they are here - I think thats punishment enough.
"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes." -Terry Pratchett "Night Watch"
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I'm an aging feller. A bit younger than the wise Traveller, but getting there. Point is, having experienced virtual conversations since the days of Arpanet, I can only agree with those that say, in essence, "Ignore the trolls, and they shall dissipate into the ether". To wit, once I recognise a troll, I just don't bother reading or responding.
*shifts gears*
Question: at what point does one commit to a relationship? Is it necessary to do all of the talky-work required to establish the need for marriage/offspring/mortgage? Or is there a point where both understand that this is just "it", and the details can be worked out later? My guess is that this is contextual, in the sense that some folk are, to put it bluntly, just looking to get laid, which is fine. My own opinion is that there comes a specific point in time where one decides to risk oneself to a total commitment to the other person. And that's a scary moment, oh yeah. In short, there's a gamble involved, and what I'm asking is, when does one toss the gorram dice?
I've been a somewhat sentient being on this planet for a long time, and I still don't know the answer to that one.
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