--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > --------------------------------- > > 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.
Comment: Obviously you feel that way about snipping as well. lurk 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. :) >
