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Getting To Know You => Laid Back Lounge => Topic started by: Tank on December 07, 2021, 12:06:32 PM

Title: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: Tank on December 07, 2021, 12:06:32 PM
Our very own white rat, Billy Ruben!!!

Thank you for joining in an making this place more interesting  ;D
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: Dark Lightning on December 07, 2021, 01:51:09 PM
Congrats, Billy!
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: Magdalena on December 07, 2021, 02:27:17 PM
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Way to go, billy rubin!
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: billy rubin on December 07, 2021, 03:15:50 PM
jeez did i really do that?

have i been here that long?

i really talk too much.

thank you
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: hermes2015 on December 07, 2021, 06:36:05 PM
Quote from: billy rubin on December 07, 2021, 03:15:50 PM
jeez did i really do that?

have i been here that long?

i really talk too much.

thank you

No, please keep on talking. I love to hear about your interesting life.
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: Ecurb Noselrub on December 07, 2021, 07:19:47 PM
You are unique, br.
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: Icarus on December 07, 2021, 09:38:02 PM
Continue to talk to us Billy.  :clapping: You are certainly the unique character who makes their posts fun to read. 

But you do have a lot more kitty cats than sane people have. :thoughtful:

Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: Recusant on December 07, 2021, 10:55:59 PM
Cheers, billy rubin. Here's to the next 3,000!  :cheers:
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: billy rubin on December 08, 2021, 12:03:53 AM
Only a Indigo Child of the world may bring about this transmission of divinity. Without passion, one cannot live. The complexity of the present time seems to demand a refining of our lives if we are going to survive.
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: Tom62 on December 08, 2021, 06:02:57 AM
Keep those posts of yours coming, Billy.
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: billy rubin on December 08, 2021, 12:26:08 PM
Although you may not realize it, you are endless. How should you navigate this conscious dreamtime? If you have never experienced this rebirth of the creative act, it can be difficult to live.

notypos either
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: xSilverPhinx on December 12, 2021, 10:27:42 PM
Took you long enough. :P
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: billy rubin on December 12, 2021, 10:54:23 PM
well, at the rate of 3.703 a day, things don't progress at a spectacular speed

its an interesting facet of the digital age, though. two hundred years ago, people who maintained an extensive correspondence are the people we look to for insights into history and politics. because they wrote on paper, which fragile as it is, remains more permnanent than any digital media dependent on maintaining back level software and infinite backups.

i used to spend vast amounts of time in emulsion photography, albums with thousands of images of places, and people, and significant events. now i have even more thousands of images in the cloud, where a snafu can remove them from any database forever.

but then, all my previous photographs were destroyed in a wave of floods that also stripped me of my books.

so maybe taking a long time to reach 3000 posts is good? or is it bad?

thank you for listening
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: Tank on December 13, 2021, 10:09:31 AM
If you enjoy creating your posts do you need to look any further?
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: billy rubin on December 13, 2021, 05:38:07 PM
well, youre right, of course.

but i always scrutinize what im doing anyway. part of trying to live an intentional life. so long as indecision isnt part of it, i reasonably happy with how im doing.

traditional conservativve quaker practice includes a lot of wat i call indecision-- the default is to not move forward without a positive leading in favor of that action or direction. quakers who practice that are referred to as slow. im the othe end, because im a fast quaker-- i believe that not making a decision is to make a decision, and so reflexive slowness isnt a positive course, on its own.

traditional slow quakers will stand around on a sinking ship debating whether to use the lifeboats or the life vests, whereas a fast quaker will say, get into whatever is closest and worry about the leading after.

the correct path is to mix input of both types, but the slow quakers are slow about that too. i end up just working on my own behind their backs and letting them catch up.
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: Tank on December 13, 2021, 07:57:03 PM
Quote from: billy rubin on December 13, 2021, 05:38:07 PM
well, youre right, of course.

but i always scrutinize what im doing anyway. part of trying to live an intentional life. so long as indecision isnt part of it, i reasonably happy with how im doing.

traditional conservativve quaker practice includes a lot of wat i call indecision-- the default is to not move forward without a positive leading in favor of that action or direction. quakers who practice that are referred to as slow. im the othe end, because im a fast quaker-- i believe that not making a decision is to make a decision, and so reflexive slowness isnt a positive course, on its own.

traditional slow quakers will stand around on a sinking ship debating whether to use the lifeboats or the life vests, whereas a fast quaker will say, get into whatever is closest and worry about the leading after.

the correct path is to mix input of both types, but the slow quakers are slow about that too. i end up just working on my own behind their backs and letting them catch up.

An interesting insight.
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: billy rubin on December 13, 2021, 09:28:46 PM
i kid you not, once at business meeting one of my elders looked up and said, those light bulbs are out. what should we do? the question was put off for consideration later because there was something or other that was more important to talk about.

after meeting i took my six year old to the store a half a mile away and we bought a pack of light bulbs. went back to the ancient meeting house and i jimmied the kitchen window-- no locks for 150 years-- held it up and lifted my son into the kitchin. he went around and unlocked the door. i got the stepladder out of the storage closet and we went into the meeting room. took out the bad bulbs and threw them in the trash. then we put in the new light bulbs, put the ladder away, put the half-empty pack of light bulbs in the storage closet, went back out and locked the door. done.

the next week, the elder looked up and said, ooh look, the light bulbs are fixed.

i didnt say anything.

later i was talking with one of my ministers and he said, yes when i was young i used to jimmy the kitchen windows too when i needed to get in.

true story.
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: Tank on December 14, 2021, 08:37:24 AM
Love that!
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: Bad Penny II on December 14, 2021, 11:20:20 AM
Well done Sir.
Most here got many of their numbers when the forum was brimming with life.
You got yours revivifying a near flatlining forum, Good Job :thumbsup:
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: Magdalena on December 14, 2021, 07:08:16 PM
Quote from: Bad Penny II on December 14, 2021, 11:20:20 AM
Well done Sir.
Most here got many of their numbers when the forum was brimming with life.
You got yours revivifying a near flatlining forum, Good Job :thumbsup:
^^^
This is true. :smilenod:

We saw you, billy, and we just...
(https://perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/lincoln-closet.gif)
:grin:
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: billy rubin on December 14, 2021, 10:58:36 PM
well clearly its time for a bang up controversial tbread

no sense in wasting all this good will

theres news on my continuing afventures among the flat earthers. i logged back into the society's forum and proposed a simple inexpensive experiment using a go pro camera that would prove or disprove the current and customary flat earth model. one that anybodu could do thay would provide photographic evidence of only one or the other, flat or round earth. no ambiguity.

my post was immediately relocated to tbe junk post threads under a new mocking gibberish thread title.

so theres that. generally the flat earthers are eager to argue your arm off, but that one hit a moderator nerve right away
Title: Re: 3,000 posts for...
Post by: Magdalena on December 15, 2021, 07:40:06 AM
Quote from: billy rubin on December 14, 2021, 10:58:36 PM
...

my post was immediately relocated to tbe junk post threads under a new mocking gibberish thread title.
...
:lol:


:therethere:

You know why they did that?
Because everyone knows the image you get back will depend on the mood that the World-bearing Turtle and the World-elephants are in.
(https://media4.giphy.com/media/w0mylo7p4OXUQ/giphy.webp?cid=6c09b952fb746c47e7488b02ba8b545dd9ed4b31c3869d1f&rid=giphy.webp&ct=g)
Come on, billy.
Everyone knows that.