VERY GLAD TO BE HERE

[Wombaticus Rex]

Been digesting Jeff's work like crack for about a month now, and I'm glad to see there's a community of people working through the same tangled webs. I have a vague inkling this is "The Forum" I've been hoping for find for, oh, about a decade now.

A toast to Mr. Wells --- howdy to everyone else.

[Et in Arcadia ego]

+1.

I even applaud my ultra-paranoid, whacky-tabbackie comrade Hugh Manatee Wins..

That's rigt, buddy, I really do like your crazy ass..I'm not suggesting You're our Village-Idiot, but somen has to fill that role.
Maybe you and I can rotate in shifts.

Deal?



Just for you, Hugh, I have a intimate gift that you could recieve only from me because you and I enjoy a special relationship I truly relish:

[Jeff]

Thanks, Wombaticus - glad you're here, too.

The best thing about launching the blog and the forum has been the revelation that there are so many others wrestling with the same stuff. And with this stuff, it's better not to wrestle alone.

[Wombaticus Rex]

Yeah, thanks for holding down that lone wolf outpost for so long, man.

I never spoke to anybody about this shit because
1) didn't want to inflict in on other people
2) lacked the energy to give them the background
3) tried it before enough to know, people resist it in crazy ways

So it was a vast relief to find Rigorous Intuition.

[posting tulpa]

"We all float down here...." Pennywise the Clown

[brainpanhandler]

I have a vague inkling this is "The Forum" I've been hoping for find for, oh, about a decade now.

Sigh. Such optimism. Took more than 7 years to grind that down.

[Project Willow]

To every thing there is a season, or so I'm told. 2007 and the aftermath of the Golden Suicides was probably the heyday of RI. For myself, I loved the early days. Travel well and safely all.

[dada]

I've been here since 2007, and was lurking for months before I signed up. I don't seem to have suffered the same social burn-out, or developed the nostalgia for what was that goes around here. I have experienced burnout from seeing all the horrors of the subjects that we deal with here, and taken extended breaks to preserve my sanity because of it. I may not have as high a post count as some of you, but that doesn't mean I have been any less invested or involved, in terms of time spent with eyes on the board, and thinking about the things I'm reading.

So this board is not what it once was. Neither are we.

[Hammer of Los]

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You can say that again.
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[Perelandra]

I also sometimes feel as if I've gone from "very glad to be here" to "fuck you all". Except that there are people here whose ideas remain important to me, so I won't leave ever. An exercise I sometimes employ if GD is too boring is to search, randomly or purposefully, through old threads. I can always find something new to me or old but good.

Cheers to WRex and all y'all.

[Gnomad]

Yep. I think my old alter ego joined 2007ish too - back then I had lots more free time to fill on the net.

I rarely post nowadays (stuff like, work!), but I drop by to read all the interesting threads. Still my favourite forum and people

[justdrew]

I've been here since 2007, and was lurking for months before I signed up. I don't seem to have suffered the same social burn-out, or developed the nostalgia for what was that goes around here. I have experienced burnout from seeing all the horrors of the subjects that we deal with here, and taken extended breaks to preserve my sanity because of it. I may not have as high a post count as some of you, but that doesn't mean I have been any less invested or involved, in terms of time spent with eyes on the board, and thinking about the things I'm reading.

So this board is not what it once was. Neither are we.

cheers, I agree.

[Hammer of Los]

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Love it JD!
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[justdrew]

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Love it JD!
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I suspected you might

[Wombaticus Rex]

Bumping because this art is awesome.