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[Gary Childress]

I'm feeling better now. I put my reading glasses somewhere and my eyesight is a bit blurry but I'm fine.

[promethean75]

Lol every time I log in, the number of guests goes from 150 to 11.

U guys know that hatred only makes me sdronger, right?

[attofishpi]

I'm feeling better now. I put my reading glasses somewhere and my eyesight is a bit blurry but I'm fine.

Well, if it's your head where you normally wear your glasses that you have put them, you may need a new pair of glasses.

[promethean75]

Somebody sent me a PM saying that Gary had some kind of bizarre religious crisis and is now at a hamas training camp in north gaza. He took a selfie of himself and sent it to my source, but I'm not gonna post it out of respect for Gary and my source.

I can't believe this is happening. What the hell did u guys say to him?

[attofishpi]

[Walker]

Maybe there was a glitch.

[Gary Childress]

I've been isolating really badly. I called a friend today that I used to attend church events with and it brought me down to Earth to talk to someone I actually know and have met and trust. The Internet brings the worst out. I need to stay off it. I can't do social media either. My writing turns into road rage because all I'm talking to are words typed in on a screen and I have no idea who is posting them or anything about them. This just isn't healthy. I'm not healthy. I've been out of work and isolating for almost 6 months now (recently ending up in the psychiatric ward), and feel like an ogre. I need to get out and do things.

[Age]

I've been isolating really badly. I called a friend today that I used to attend church events with and it brought me down to Earth to talk to someone I actually know and have met and trust. The Internet brings the worst out. I need to stay off it. I can't do social media either. My writing turns into road rage because all I'm talking to are words typed in on a screen and I have no idea who is posting them or anything about them.

Judging words, on 'themselves', ONLY, may well be the BEST and ONLY WAY to COME-TO FIND, UNCOVER and DISCOVER, LEARN, SEE, UNDERSTAND, and/or KNOW the ACTUAL Truth of 'things', rather than judging 'people' INSTEAD. Thus, LOOKING AT and SEEING 'typed words on a screen', in a philosophy forum, could be one of the LESSONS LEARNED.

See, if one is ONLY dealing WITH words, ALONE, and NOT AT ALL WITH 'human beings' as well, then 'judging' IN and FOR the Right REASONS, instead of FOR the Wrong REASONS, IS OCCURRING.

This just isn't healthy. I'm not healthy. I've been out of work and isolating for almost 6 months now (recently ending up in the psychiatric ward), and feel like an ogre. I need to get out and do things.

Okay.

[Gary Childress]

I just want to say to the following people, if you're still lurking out there somewhere, maybe too put off by things to post in the forum anymore, then I hope the best for you. I hope you see this and feel free to chime in just to let us know you're out there somewhere. We argue a lot and get carried away by our arguing a lot, but in the end, we're brothers, sisters and cousins of sorts, so I just want to say that I miss the following people:

Harbal
Scupltor
FlashDangerPants

And I miss Vegetariantaxidermy and Don'tAskMe.

I feel like some of you are still with us in spirit and that's good. But just know that your absence is noticed and your presence is missed.

Is there anyone that YOU (yes you who is reading this) miss on the forum?

[promethean75]

"I've been isolating really badly"

Oh fuck off. I haven't had any real-life friends in seventeen years... and even those were questionable.

"I just want to say that I miss the following people: Harbal, Scupltor, FlashDangerPants"

Why am i not in this list? I can't believe this.

[Gary Childress]

"I've been isolating really badly"

Oh fuck off. I haven't had any real-life friends in seventeen years... and even those were questionable.

"I just want to say that I miss the following people: Harbal, Scupltor, FlashDangerPants"

Why am i not in this list? I can't believe this.

Because I had assumed that you are still posting on the forum. They seemed not to be.

[henry quirk]

Harbal
Scupltor
FlashDangerPants

I miss Vegetariantaxidermy and Don'tAskMe.

Harbal was shamed -- rightfully or wrongfully -- into abandoning the forum by DAM (a seedy, soap opera, love gone wrong).

Sculptor was, I think, banned...or mebbe he croaked.

Flash pops in as he likes.

Veg is Accelefine(sic) and DAM is Fairy.

[Gary Childress]

Harbal
Scupltor
FlashDangerPants

I miss Vegetariantaxidermy and Don'tAskMe.

Harbal was shamed -- rightfully or wrongfully -- into abandoning the forum by DAM (a seedy, soap opera, love gone wrong).

Sculptor was, I think, banned...or mebbe he croaked.

Flash pops in as he likes.

Veg is Accelefine(sic) and DAM is Fairy.

I heard about Harbal and DAM. I hope Harbal is doing OK, though. I kind of miss his sense of humor.

[seeds]

Harbal
Scupltor
FlashDangerPants

I miss Vegetariantaxidermy and Don'tAskMe.

Harbal was shamed -- rightfully or wrongfully -- into abandoning the forum by DAM (a seedy, soap opera, love gone wrong).

Sculptor was, I think, banned...or mebbe he croaked.

Flash pops in as he likes.

Veg is Accelefine(sic) and DAM is Fairy.

I heard about Harbal and DAM. I hope Harbal is doing OK, though. I kind of miss his sense of humor.

And Sculptor can be found over on the ILP site.

Gary, have you ever heard of the term "situational awareness"?

If you were a member of a vast herd of wildebeests in the plains of Africa, you would have been eaten long ago.
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[Gary Childress]

Harbal was shamed -- rightfully or wrongfully -- into abandoning the forum by DAM (a seedy, soap opera, love gone wrong).

Sculptor was, I think, banned...or mebbe he croaked.

Flash pops in as he likes.

Veg is Accelefine(sic) and DAM is Fairy.

I heard about Harbal and DAM. I hope Harbal is doing OK, though. I kind of miss his sense of humor.

And Sculptor can be found over on the ILP site.

Gary, have you ever heard of the term "situational awareness"?

If you were a member of a vast herd of wildebeests in the plains of Africa, you would have been eaten long ago.
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Why are you asking me if I've heard of the term "situational awareness"?