Date: August 25th, 2022 8:29 PM Author: dead location marketing idea
100% NOT FLAME, my friend :-)
And TYVM. It really means a lot to me that you appreciate these stories...
...including that one about my experiences as a guardian angel for people in need over the years: as with the politely sheepish old gentleman needing water for medication on the nighttime bus ride;
and the mysterious camaraderie - with literally the entire bus of people from all walks of life - that ensued from my resolve to put aside the fear of looking "uncool," and just help any person of good will, however we can.
think i mentioned it a few weeks ago, but i'm really glad we largely as a group calmed down a bit and can be more emotionally open. as much as people valorize old xo, everyone was so young and full of pretentions and airs, lol. now? who gives a shit. poast what you want.
Date: August 25th, 2022 9:21 PM Author: dead location marketing idea
The long-term trend of XO has been very heartwarming to say the least, and it's so funny to look back at the days of people complaining about Rob Halford tp "Ruining" the board by not taking anything (except for the truth, however non-PC) or himself too seriously - when in fact he was a great trailblazer, and under-appreciated as so many great men are in their time.
Date: August 25th, 2022 8:32 PM Author: dead location marketing idea
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Really glad you saw that before I deleted it, no joke. You and I have had some amazing subthreads over the years (your description of me as having BIG GOLDEN RETRIEVER energy still comes to mind at least once I day - no homo, and not flame)
Date: August 25th, 2022 8:58 PM Author: Turquoise menage
likewise!
u know how it goes with timing and coincidences - eru iluvatar loves ‘em. sometimes they swell to a major theme in his grand symphony, as with your story, sometimes they’re just a sly little run in the upper registers intended only for the few ears that catch them, as with me stumbling across this thread in the few moments i was on xo in between sets
you think making us dinner was thankless? try following moniker changes and interests of a bunch of internet malcontents and brightening their days every single day with inspirational quotes and dog pictures.
Date: August 25th, 2022 8:25 PM Author: dead location marketing idea
Because you are quite literally my IRL brother in another life (read: the life of Eternal EPCOT beyond our Earthly womb-athon / personality purification), just as gibberish tp is probably my dad, or at least one of them:
I should probably let you know that I've been going extra Gondorian over the past few months, because for some mysterious reason 9/2 is my pre-destined sabbatical (was going to be 9/2/2021, but I realized there were still some more mysterious seeds of love needing to be sown, as Tears for Fears would say!).
Date: August 25th, 2022 9:10 PM Author: dead location marketing idea
At the gorgeous? risk of sounding even more gay and retarded and/or Gondorian and retriever-ish than I usually do:
Some of our subthreads (some about the Eternal Nippon of Aslan's Country, some just sharing our funny shared feeling of strangely benevolent homelessness in this life - and we often feel homeless because this is not our true home, Malcolm Muggeridge and Walker Percy frequently said):
Date: August 25th, 2022 9:19 PM Author: dead location marketing idea
This one goes out to all the gorgeous souls ITT, who even by the standards of men (whom I love as a general rule) are something else, true windows to Heaven:
"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."