In article <nsdti8h6h7pil7d8lk750vp92o19lvtrop@4ax.com>, Doc NP-f31
wrote:
> The Fort isn't what it used to be and it never will be again. But
> that's not important. Those who were here in the past remember what
> happened and what didn't happen. To those who came after, it probably
> doesn't matter what happened before and no amount of blithering
> revisionism will make a bit of difference.
>
> The past doesn't matter. We had fun. We had wars. We did some good
> things and shared a lot. All good, but unimportant nowadays.
>
> What matters now is what we do from here forward. Sharing brings us
> together and community keeps us together. I haven't been here in The
> Fort as much as I have in the past. Sometimes my mere presence is
> divisive (much of that was probably my fault) and I seem to be a sort
> of catnip that brings the worst out in kittens sometimes. I have
> preferred the quiet solitude of the Galleries. Visit when you have the
> time. But The Fort is our Mothership and has been for 15 years (you
> know we had our birthday on Sunday) and our mission is not
> accomplished.
>
> I don't know how many boys there are here, a few I would guess. They
> have found us before and we have helped them. All of us who are here
> now care about boys. Some of us love boys and are confused and
> frightened by this knowledge. I was like that when I ventured here 14
> years ago. I found people who helped me figure out being a boylover,
> what that meant and and helped me decide what I was going to do about
> it.
>
> I have paid their knowledge and brotherhood forward and I will do it
> again. I have decided to take a more active role. Maybe with your help
> we can bring some of the old Fort magic back. I know we can with guys
> like Cosmos, BD, Chad, VV, Grant and others who have been active here.
> If you find your way here and need to talk, I am here, others are too.
> I will be bringing up topics of conversation and I hope you will join
> in the discussions.
>
> It's true, although it will pain one person (who pretends to be 20
> people) to see me type it out, I am the 'Keeper of the Flame' which
> was passed down from Tommy, the Founder of the Fort to Invisible and
> The Wiz and to Mephi and back the the Wiz when Mephi died and finally
> to me. I keep the famed spiral notebook with the list of Fort Badges
> in it. So, if anyone wants a Fort Badge, all you have to do is ask.
>
> For what it's worth, I'm back.
>
> Not that I ever left...
>
> Doc
> NP-f31
> Keeper of the Flame
>
> PS - Maybe this is cause for a posting party? Back in the day we used
> any lame excuse...
Good post, Doc.
Thanks for mentioning me.
I thought I was invisible. Oh wait. He's gone. I'm not.
I think other gone people should be left in peace. Could be the only
peace they ever had.
I like peace. No rockets. No bombs, no gunfire. Would be nice to have
peace here. Making our guests welcome, isn't so bad an idea, too.
The other idea, discussions, is good, too. I've had to invent strange
characters to do that with each other. Hmm, that sounds strangely
familiar. But I like my characters. Well, I have to; they're mine. I
know how that is for other people who create characters. For me, it's
the stories that make them live a shadow life. They depend on readers
to make them more real. Someday it might happen. The readers. The lead
character, later in his life, will be addressing important social
issues, and in his universe, actually making them better. Who knows,
some of his solutions might actually work in the real world. But then,
with Congress as it is now, the real world, if that actually is, isn't
looking all too nice. With the world as it is, wouldn't it be nice if
this place could serve as an example of what nice is and should be?
Caring about that could be a start. I do. I hope others do as well.
My characters care, because I make them that way. They could use some
company. Maybe some pets?"
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Grant
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