I had a reeeeally weird thing happen to me on the 22nd. As a result I have quit smoking, quit drinking caffein habitually, quit “yelling”, thrown away my computer (posting from my husband’s), and – am actually going to church again. I won’t explain what happened – you wouldn’t believe me.
I will (already do) miss many of you (you know who you are). I only came back to say I’m not dead, and thankyou, and to figure out who that dude was talkin’ about “triangulation” (mentioned by Dunamis) (else it would bug me for the rest of my life). I will not be back.
Somebody please make sure Thin_Edge gets this. (thinedge.org)
And my curiousity is killing me as well. I really disdain people who leave me in such suspense; but then again, a part of me really admires those that are able to be comfortable with their own truths, in spite of what the world may say or think.
Best to you Sam – you were one of those posters who really added to the magnitude of ILP – to what I’ve come to love and cherish about this place. But sooner or later, I guess, we all must leave the nest, spread our wings, and plunge into the abyss – but it’s great! isn’t it? As long as we have the wills to fly, what is the abyss? Nada.
I think I know what happened to you, the same thing happened to a friend of mine a few years back.
Anyway, if it is the same thing - I know you won’t be back, and so I’d just like to say farewell, I didn’t like you much at the beginning of ‘knowing’ you, but you grew on me over the months (like some pleasent kind of symbiotic fungus ), so I’ll miss you too - ILP will the poorer for your loss.
Take care of you and yours, and success in whatever you do.
I read the news of your imminent departure with a mixture of horror and despair, an awareness of the deep and unfillable void your absence would leave in the increasingly thinning ranks of the ILP intelligensia yawning ever wider in my already teetering mind… You will be mourned dear Threshold-darkener. How can we go on…?
I’ll bet it was those cows again, wasn’t it…?
Why do all the great philosophers come to sticky ends…? Nietzche’s madness, Socrate’s hemlock, SIATD’s cud-chewing mob…
Very probably the same thing that’s happened to Sheâ„¢…
Is this a forum God would not want his children tinkering with? Is it not fit for expectant mothers?..Reality check? Does membership here require delusion?
no but forums can be rather addictive… and when you have children you dont have time to be constantly posting on here… reality check basically means GET A LIFE…and god prohibits philosophy… you have to believe what he says…
Are you trying to say that all expectant mothers are deluded? As to the children of God - they aren’t deluded, just a little over-enthusiastic at times.
Rumours of my imminent departure have been greatly exaggerated.
Thanks for the concern, and the comparison between myself and Nietzsche and Socrates. Kant went mad, of course, and started blaming the poor weather in Konigsberg on the place’s population of stray cats. Descartes died of bitter cold in Scandinavia (no wonder they are all sex addicts in Sweden, it’s bloody freezing), Russell died a disgrace and a fool, Wittgenstein died a homosexual…
There’s no word I can find for fear of cows, though unusualphobias.com did list it. The closest thing I’ve found is Taurophobia - the fear of bulls. I also stumbled across a website claiming that ETA are responsible for the aggression of the cows in Spain.
In all seriousness I’ve not contributed anything seriously philosophical to this forum in weeks. I’ve been indulging in lots of banter and pretending to be a fascist, I should sit down and write something decent.
), so I’ll miss you too - ILP will the poorer for your loss.
