Generational Dynamics Forum - New Site

Well, John, since you seem hellbent on offing yourself, what will happen to this forum? You won't be here anymore to weed out any pornolinks some jerk posts, so will you turn it over to someone else to moderate? Shut it down and "lock" it as a record? Let it go 404? Let it go wacko?

John wrote:That's very inspirational. You should be a preacher.

Thought about that once,.. for about 3 days, then I arose.

Mmmmm.. uh,.. perhaps I should rephrase that?

But, no. I'm TERRIBLE at convincing people of anything. Of course, that doesn't stop ACTUAL preachers, now does it? But I'm not into hittin' my head against that particular stone wall, thank ya' very much.

What I am good at is crying at "deeply tragic" plot points during highly effective movies/plays/novels.

The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, White Christmas, Life is Beautiful, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, It's a Wonderful Life, The Time Machine (Yvette Mimieux version), The Dead (Anjelica Huston), Butterflies (BBC2 Wendy Craig 1978) ,.. but mostly Fiddler on the Roof,.. and Butterflies.

Have you every actually (tried to) read any Joyce (Jimmy type)!? Oh me gaaaaaahd... I've read long bits of Ulysses in a decent Irish accent out loud to myself for hours on end. Usually when feeling sorry for myself for some silly, or not so silly, reason. A bottle of Jameson's nearby always helps, of course. Keeps the pipes luuuubricated.

..I'm just a big cry baby. I also cry during soulful irish pub music and Sean-nós singing.

Tom Mazanec wrote: > Well, John, since you seem hellbent on offing yourself, what will
> happen to this forum? You won't be here anymore to weed out any
> pornolinks some jerk posts, so will you turn it over to someone
> else to moderate? Shut it down and "lock" it as a record? Let it
> go 404? Let it go wacko?

I'm sure we can work something out. There's a Generational Dynamics
download page, generationaldynamics.com/download, which I plan to
update to the latest files, including the sql file for this forum.
With that file, anyone can run a copy of this forum by setting up a
web site, installing the free open source Phpbb forum software, and
then importing the sql file.

And aren't all of us wacko?

..can only speak for myself.

Yes.

..next question?

John wrote:

Tom Mazanec wrote: > Well, John, since you seem hellbent on offing yourself, what will
> happen to this forum? You won't be here anymore to weed out any
> pornolinks some jerk posts, so will you turn it over to someone
> else to moderate? Shut it down and "lock" it as a record? Let it
> go 404? Let it go wacko?

I'm sure we can work something out. There's a Generational Dynamics
download page, generationaldynamics.com/download, which I plan to
update to the latest files, including the sql file for this forum.
With that file, anyone can run a copy of this forum by setting up a
web site, installing the free open source Phpbb forum software, and
then importing the sql file.

And aren't all of us wacko?

Two things.

First, please don't off yourself. You may be struggling with money, but there are people here who enjoy your company. On this website and surely outside of it. If you need to reduce the amount of time you spend on this site, then by all means do so. Search for a job that will pay you for doing geopolitical analysis similar to what you do here. And if it doesn't work out, ask friends and/or family to help you out. Please, John. Hang in there.

And second, while you're updating the latest files, can you please update the conflict risk table on the home page?

DaKardii wrote: > Two things.

> First, please don't off yourself. You may be struggling with
> money, but there are people here who enjoy your company. On this
> website and surely outside of it. If you need to reduce the amount
> of time you spend on this site, then by all means do so. Search
> for a job that will pay you for doing geopolitical analysis
> similar to what you do here. And if it doesn't work out, ask
> friends and/or family to help you out. Please, John. Hang in
> there.

> And second, while you're updating the latest files, can you please
> update the conflict risk table on the home page?

Sure, I'll update the conflict risk table.

Let's see, what analogy shall I use today?

Suppose you're on a raft in a river, floating downstream to a
waterfall. You can't get off the raft, and if you try, then you'll
drown.

The flow of the river, like the flow of time, is inexorable. Tick
tock, tick tock, tick tock. There's no way to stop from arriving at
the waterfall.

When you reach the waterfall, you'd like to "hang in there," but the
only thing you can hang on to is the raft, and that doesn't help.

Isn't that a great analogy? Tick tock, tick tock.

John wrote:

DaKardii wrote: > Two things.

> First, please don't off yourself. ...

Let's see, what analogy shall I use today?

Suppose you're on a raft in a river, floating downstream to a
waterfall. You can't get off the raft, and if you try, then you'll
drown.

The flow of the river, like the flow of time, is inexorable. Tick
tock, tick tock, tick tock. There's no way to stop from arriving at
the waterfall.

When you reach the waterfall, you'd like to "hang in there," but the
only thing you can hang on to is the raft, and that doesn't help.

Isn't that a great analogy? Tick tock, tick tock.

Lesson being: Never get on a raft. Seriously,.. rafts are freakin' death traps.

...and if you've practiced holding your breath, then being in the river (sans raft of course as we've already learned) is not THAT terrifying, and there's a decent chance that you might continue breathing for a while longer.

But, a better analogy might be falling off a roof into a running woodchipper,.. although that does rather beg the question as to why the woodchipper is running,.. and why you'd be falling off a roof.

Ain't slap-stick just hilarious!?