new.morning wrote:
> Someone jokingly suggested we should make it an average of 5 posts a
> day -- thus 35 a week or something. Hard to track and administer.
> However, I find I barely have time to read a few posts during the
> week, much less write many. However on the weekends, FFL and / or
> other forums provide a valuable outlet and vista for me to get outside
> the very focused (interesting but within a small channel of LIFE)
> intellectual and other pursuits/demands in my career work. And to
> think of broader issues that also nourish my life.
>
> As Barry has said, many write to discover. I have always found this. I
> start to write -- to flesh out some seed response / idea, and often,
> much to my total amazement, have written something different and more,
> and for me something I needed to "hear". As if a muse (perhaps, a
> drunken, playful, trickster, not always a smart or insightful muse) on
> my shouder say, "listen up bubba and write this down, read it, study
> it, and take heed!"
>
> (as Dr Pete scribbles in his note book, "hears voices, worse, responds
> to them, worse yet, bores all of us with them, hmmm .. clearly
> schzorphrenic, psychotic, narcissistic, anti-social and generally an
> ass" :) ) [and can't spell big words well]
>
> Better yet, is when such meanderings (referring to mine, not Dr Petes,
> though I like his meanderings too), invoke converstation. Like my
> recent friendly and cross-supportive (IMV) give-and-take with Curtis.
> Or Curtis' and Marek's recent dialoge (damn, this Curtis fellow seems
> to often be at the core of good dialogues.)
>
> On weekends, I have some time (perhaps quite UNWELL spent) catching up
> on posts, reflecting on these posts, writing/meandering, responding to
> some -- and in the process discovering things I was unaware of in my
> mind-- and if I am very lucky -- starting a good dialogue /productive
> debate and friendly discussion.
>
> Sometimes, following the flow of ideas (and we KNOW we have no control
> over thoughts, they just BUBBLE up from the ABSOLUTE aka Quantum
> Dynamical Vacuum State of All Possibilites) it takes more than 5 posts
> to even begin to embody them. Thus, at least on weekends, I am
> suggesting, ne, even vigorously arguing that the 5 post limit is
> anti-vedic, anti-spiritual, annti-satangic, and counter to the
> ABSOLUTE Quantum Dynamical nature of the Vacuum State of All
> Possibilites inherent in all of CREATION! <smirk>
>
> Thus I suggest, ne, strongly advocate, that periodically, one can
> invoke the "Weekend Exception" to the five post rule. In other words,
> if one posts only a few posts, or none, during the week, they can post
> a few more than five on weekends if such are not argumentative,
> stupid, insipid or factually bogus. I know that knocks most of my
> posts out of contentions, but you get the point. It would eliminate
> spraig-like 80/posts a days of unrestrainable obsesive posts (though
> some wre quite good). And it would disallow vindictive, arguative,
> baiting slugs fests by, you know, "some people" and people who lightly
> veil others as "some people".
>
> Rick has said he will support changes suggested by "the majority". But
> who would ever give up one of their precious posts to advocate or
> denounce the above.
>
> Thus, I am invoking the mystical quantum ritam seer "secret" clause
> deeply embedded in the FFL guidelines. I proclaim to KNOW, at the
> level of all truth, as inherently true that the majority in FFL agree
> with this reasonable weekend extension of the five post rule. And
> unless a majority or members (over 500) explicity post their
> objection, that we TRY, as in "Trial", this minor augmentation of the
> Rick five-post fiat and see how it goes. If its abused, we can either
> send the offender to the dome as a re-education camp for 6 months,
> and/or give then hot oil bathis, or ignore them, or moderate them --
> turnin off their posts util they say "I will no longer be a ass" ten
> times, in sanskrit and their native language.
>
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> And I claim this is a forum administrative piece and should not count
> toards my five-limit. :)
>
>
>
This 5 post thing is the result of a few folks who apparently have an
addiction to FFL and maybe afraid of losing their jobs because they
spent too much time here (and there were some who didn't have any jobs
too). Then we have the folks who must be hungover and thought they were
posting to their blog and instead posted here. Posting limits are
offensive and infantile. They are the sign of an unenlightened mind and
the sign of encroaching fascism in the world. They are such a joke that
some friends at Wired are thinking of doing an article on this group. :)
