On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 08:42:11 -0500, m2 <m2@somewhere.com> wrote:
>Clearly, I "jumped the gun"... I took your lack of a quick response
>to an imagined negative reaction to my comments about the liberality
>of the 1960's.... it's a long story, and not your problem, but my
>life has been crazy weird with both extreme good luck and bad luck.
>The past 20 years have been more and more negative and isolating. I
>am basically a hermit at this point with no family, friends, or
>friendly neighbors, so hard to keep a level perspective at this point.
>Yet I still have a heart full of hope that won't give up and know I
>have great talents and understandings, if only I can keep my head
>above the waters and rebuild my life, re-invent myself somehow. I am
>a miniature sculptor and philosopher. I want to write books and make
>art before I drop dead from stress... I have been keeping myself
>happy by mindless hard labor, relandscaping my yard, etc..
>
>As for the usenet, I love it too much, but have been trying to divorce
>myself from it for a long time... but it's like a kid trying not to
>eat candy when I have a free, unlimited source. About 3 years ago,
>when I was downloading tons of stuff from this group, I had a very
>fast internet connection and downloads were quick, so I got two
>unlimited usenet accounts and had 2 computers downloading
>documentaries 24 hours a day 7 days a week, because my fast connection
>was part of an introductory deal that was about to expire. I was
>going to cancel my ISP when that happened, since the price would more
>than double. When that time came, the ISP wanted to keep my business,
>so they let me keep the same price, but greatly reduced the speed.
>However, I still decided to cancel the 2 usenet services since I had
>downloaded everything I could imagine wanting. Anyhow, they goofed,
>they cancelled the billing on both accounts, but left one of the
>accounts active. I emailed them and told them this, and they replied
>that it had been cancelled, so I figured, okay, I told them and they
>didn't believe me, so now I have an unlimited account with no bills. I
>didnt do much with it since this group was not so active after JCmru
>departed. Then I discovered the xvid group, and ... yada yada yada, 3
>years have passed and now I have not only a gazillion documentaries
>yet to watch, I also have bazilliions of new films, vintage films,
>Beatles memorabilia, and more, but at my age, it is crazy to keep
>building up more stuff than I'll ever watch... and frankly, the vast
>majority of stuff I do watch is disappointing and feels like I am
>wasting my time... I watched about half of "Roma" recently, and just
>got bored... perhaps it gets better, but everything takes time and my
>time is not unlimited, sadly. Time is of the essence, and I need to
>get off the internet, except for email and business needs. So I'll
>keep my ISP, but want to quit using the usenet.
>
>You and Rib once talked about communicating on a back channel somehow.
>I am not seeking to find you out, and dont care to bother you, but if
>you can tell me how to reach you, without exposing yourself, I would
>be happy to give you the name and password to this usenet account.
>Since I'm saying this in a public forum, I suppose someone else could
>pretend to be you... so maybe this isn't practical.. but the offer is
>open, if you want it.
>
>There's a lot I'd love to write about, about life and reality, if only
>I can figure out how to make my viewpoint understandable. So far, my
>view are so different, both right-leaning and left-leaning folks can't
>stand to hear my ideas because both sides think I'm on the other side.
>Thus, to date, nobody is on my side, which is almost a definition of
>being crazy, except that I have always been a seeker after the truth,
>and truth is always and only a matter of real evidence and the facts,
>so I know I'm not crazy, because I can still prove it to myself, but I
>find myself in a world of folks who believe "truth" is on their side,
>and both sides think this, and refuse to hear anything they dont agree
>with... so I have quite an uphill battle... in short, not that this
>will make sense, but I am an atheist who follows the real way of
>Jesus, which is to reverence truth and hate falsehood. Jesus was
>right about reverence for truth being the "way"... Jesus's problem
>was that he was a creationist, who believed Adam and Eve were real
>people, the true ancestors of all humans. So he was dead wrong, and
>all versions of christianity are not only shameful, they are all
>bollocks. The left-leaning liberal renditions are the most evil,
>because they mix science with falsehood, and close their eyes to the
>incompatibilities, which infuriates the right-leaning fundamentalist
>christians who think science is bollocks and creationism is the truth
>from god... thus both sides are crazy delusional and bigoted for
>their version of "truth" and the whole human race is self-destructing,
>in my opinion. The muslims and jews are split in the same way, hating
>each other behind their bigoted opinions of God...
>
>what more can i say... i have said too much, i suppose... ;-)
>
>peace, if you can find it, may it be in your heart. :)
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No Mate ! I was born in the 1960's, so my Mum and Dad both lived
through it.
Wow ! No family ? I have family but I pretty much keep myself to
myself and live in my bedroom, so the Friends part no longer exists.
I wouldn't give up on Usenet, it's one of the very few things that I
do every day, it connects me to people around the World and gives me
the TV programmes that I need to keep my mind busy.
Giving up on Usenet is I suppose... a personal choice !
It depends what you actually need it for or if you even need it at
all.
If you are looking for conversation and not the downloads then
Facebook would be a better option.
I am a smoker WITH COPD, my lung age is 116yrs old, time isn't on my
side either BUT I still choose to smoke, doing something that I want
and enjoy is more important to me than living a few years longer (my
Bad...maybe) :)
I don't believe in Gods/Jesus and used to call myself an Atheist, but
then I learned that Atheists don't recognize other peoples belief in
their Gods, as far as I'm concerned... I choose NOT to be live in any
Gods but will accept that other people do ! Therefore I now class
myself as Non-Religious.
Each to their own.
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