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In reply to "m2" who wrote the following:
> 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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Spike and I first communicated via a "throw away" Email address. We are now
friends on Facebook. Ask him if he's up for that. He is quite a private person
so It's his choice of course.
RIB.
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