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Date Posted: 18:59:23 01/17/06 Tue
Author: taurusgirl
Subject: Re: delayed reaction
In reply to:
Leo
's message, "delayed reaction" on 18:21:54 01/17/06 Tue
>You know that saying "you don't know what you had until it's gone" well you don't have to say that about the forum, Leo. You know what you had, corny I know, but how many things can we say that about.
Anyway thanks, for reflecting ,that's too much, really B-day cards and all. There's something great about communicating and for people to do that on a regular basis with people we will never meet, Amazing!
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Re: delayed reaction -- chrys, 21:11:07 01/17/06 Tue [1]
wow, that sort of strikes me teh same way that caren's list did on AS.
funny, i FINALLY get the internet at home, and the forum is gone. i am not anticipating the change with as much enthusiasm as most. i feel i'm being grumpy and whiny, but i loved that forum the way it was. if it ain't broke, don't fix it, isn't that what they say?
preaching is playing on my iTunes...(and then sunshower, then when i'm down)
yes the cc forum holds so many memories, it's like an era really. my life never would have been the same without that place. i really credit it and the people there with inspiring me to even consider traveling or changing schools when i was a little college freshman in MD. some forum people and i almost flew to TX to see CC in austin during the EM tour. things didn't work out at the last minute, but by then i knew i could hve and would have, and knew how to look up plane tickets. just that knowledge was enough to initiate a huge change.
and from school in arizona, i took trips to LA to see stilly and others, went to a jeff tribute with blue in chicago, and saw chrisless and her family the next day, went to portland and seattle and was a stowaway in elili's house for a week, wen tto a concert in phoenix with thethinker, taraveled to organic farms (before the forum i didn't know what the word organic meant, in that context), stopped in southern OR for lastingone, and eventually moved out to seattle on my own, and lived w/a forum member there for four months.
that's not to mention all the meetings at shows, all the hanging out in lines, or that day way back when at tumulty's in new brunswick during the EM tour. and that's not to mention all the cards and letters and whatnot. i have it all saved in a forum book, save for a few things from a few people, i have all of it.
but so much of it isn't even the tangible stuff, it's the memories, just the daily interactions, the dream interpretations, the reccommendatiosn of books, music, movies, the discussions about elections and wars and terrorists, the debates, the drama, the fights, the support. on my way to seattle, on the greyhound bus, i was thinking about how as a teenager i felt this horrible chasm inside, this loneliness that felt like a bottoomless pit, cuz i really didn't have anyone to relate to, and i thought on that bus ride, i don't feel that way anymore, and a lot of it was b/c of the great friends i have met at the cc forum, and you know, that's a pretty big deal.
that place will always live on in memorty. i will never forget. after all, that forum recently indirectly helped me lose my virginity, lol.
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Re: delayed reaction -- taurusgirl, 08:04:20 01/18/06 Wed [1]
>>that place will always live on in memorty. i will
>never forget. after all, that forum recently
>indirectly helped me lose my virginity, lol.
I can only imagine lotus afterward lying there smoking a cigarette (if you smoke) thinking, Oh wait till I tell the forum about this. LOL
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Re: delayed reaction -- Leo, 08:16:18 01/18/06 Wed [1]
Lol, I can picure that too!
I have a box of forum memories too, but most of them are in my head. Too many amazing experiences.
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Re: delayed reaction -- lump, 09:31:00 01/18/06 Wed [1]
I know how ya'll feel. I was ready to walk away...or so I thought. But here I am reading everything anyway.
The forum showed me that I wasn't alone at a time I thought I was. I still know, from the forum, that no matter what I'm feeling - I'm definately not alone. I wrote a drunken rant last Friday - and even there, drunk thanks to Hot Damn, I noted that I knew I wasn't alone in feeling the way I do.
It also told me that people aren't as evil as they can seem. It used to always be me v. them. But then through the forum I realized that even people I don't like or can't bond with have something in common with me. And that under all our exteriors, we're human and we all feel (except a few). With this awakening, I'm able to step outside my own feelings and try to walk in the opposing persons shoes.
I also enjoyed, and often took advantage of, spitting out things I needed to talk about or through and getting heartfelt feedback from people who shouldn't care! Sometimes you can't talk to your close friends and family without them immediately taking your defense. Through our forum, I was able to receive well rounded advice and help - without the judgement, too.
It's been wonderful, and I love ya'll. :)
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Re: delayed reaction -- chrys, 14:07:07 01/18/06 Wed [1]
yeah, ditto to what lump said.
lol @ taurus, no i don't smoke (cigarettes anyway), and i don't think that thought crossed my mind till the next day or so, lol.
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Re: delayed reaction -- lakemnitz, 20:11:22 01/18/06 Wed [1]
>I have to agree with you all even though I have not been around as long as most. Since I have been a part of the forum I have:
Changed Jobs
Left My Hushand
Started accepting myself for who I am
I too figured out that I am not alone in some of my weirdness; and people here have accepted me for me and they don't even know me. I've had online tarot readings, phone readings, went to a show with a fellow member (AS), emailed and phoned others...and supported others causes. What a great fucking experience this place has been for me.
I have gotten to know new bands, new ideas, new books, changed views and attitudes.....I miss my home.
>yeah, ditto to what lump said.
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>lol @ taurus, no i don't smoke (cigarettes anyway),
>and i don't think that thought crossed my mind till
>the next day or so, lol.
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