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Post by Jeff on May 6, 2005 11:08:50 GMT -5
Week 1: 326 posts, in 45 topics, from 12 members.
Week 2: 769 posts, in 93 topics, from 15 members
Week 3: 1188 posts, in 145 topics, from 17 members
Week 4: 1407 posts, in 189 topics, from 18 members
Still MIA: Don, Tammy, Chris, Bridget, Jessie, Jerod, David H., Ryan, Zakk, Sarah, Jason, Jack, etc...
Is everyone still happy with the board?
Jeff
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Post by Guest Justin on May 6, 2005 15:04:26 GMT -5
I'm happy with it. But what happened? Is it just finals week, or has the board just died?
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Post by Jeff on May 6, 2005 15:23:52 GMT -5
Tyler, David, Jeff, Halford, and Mike. All of us are going through it right now. Dan, you're in school, too, right?
I think that is all that is going on.
Jeff
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Post by Thanin on May 7, 2005 20:09:38 GMT -5
Yeah school has just kicked me near the ass. Been busy.
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Post by Tyler on May 8, 2005 5:46:02 GMT -5
hole! Yeah, school just kicked me near the ass-hole. Been busy.
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Post by Jeff on May 13, 2005 23:31:34 GMT -5
Week 1: 326 posts, in 45 topics, from 12 members.
Week 2: 769 posts, in 93 topics, from 15 members
Week 3: 1188 posts, in 145 topics, from 17 members
Week 4: 1407 posts, in 189 topics, from 18 members
Week 5: 1468 posts, in 212 topics, from 19 members
Still MIA: Don, Tammy, Chris, Bridget, Jessie, Jerod, David H., Ryan, Zakk, Sarah, Jason, Jack, etc...
Still happy?
Jeff
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Post by Jeff on May 22, 2005 2:36:48 GMT -5
Week 1: 326 posts, in 45 topics, from 12 members.
Week 2: 769 posts, in 93 topics, from 15 members
Week 3: 1188 posts, in 145 topics, from 17 members
Week 4: 1407 posts, in 189 topics, from 18 members
Week 5: 1468 posts, in 212 topics, from 19 members
Week 6: 1500 posts, in 226 topics, from 19 members
Still MIA: Don, Tammy, Chris, Bridget, Jessie, Jerod, David H., Ryan, Zakk, Sarah, Jason, Jack, etc...
The last two weeks have seen a major slowdown. Was the board just a passing fad, or is this just a bad time?
Jeff
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Post by Jeff on May 27, 2005 3:15:59 GMT -5
Week 7: 1541 posts, in 231 topics, from 19 members
The last three weeks have been very slow. Not with a bang...
Jeff
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Post by Jeff on Jun 3, 2005 13:54:23 GMT -5
Week 8: 1584 posts, in 241 topics, from 19 members
Still very slow. The board has been (nearly) dead now for as many weeks as it was jumping.
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Post by Jeff on Jun 3, 2005 13:57:00 GMT -5
On Sunday or Monday I will leave my beloved seat before this CRT and return to my headwaters in Pawhuska, OK. I will be gone for two weeks. If anyone wants to take over managing things here, email me and I'll give you my new password.
Jeff
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Post by amanda on Jun 3, 2005 17:24:29 GMT -5
Jeff, can you make 'Outings' a forum (instead of Saturday May 7, 2005)? Tankee kindly.
ps We look forward to seeing you!
pps Will the entire crew be coming with?
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Post by Tyler on Jun 4, 2005 9:08:16 GMT -5
Whenever we throw a party, there's a period of time near the end, when most people have left and there's only a few of us remaining. I think that's what going on here in the boards. Don't be concerned... I always enjoy this part of the party more.
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Post by amanda mcbride on Jun 4, 2005 12:10:08 GMT -5
Thanks, Jeff!
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Post by Jeff on Jun 9, 2005 15:35:18 GMT -5
Week 9: 1,647 posts in 255 topics from 20 members.
I think we are gaining steam again! See you in two weeks!
Jeff
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Post by Jeff on Jun 24, 2005 9:17:09 GMT -5
Missed week 10.
Week 11: 1,704 posts in 268 topics from 21 members.
Jeff
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Post by Jeff on Jul 1, 2005 2:17:20 GMT -5
Week 12: 1,806 posts in 284 topics from 22 members.
Over 100 posts this week!
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Post by Jeff on Jul 7, 2005 23:56:41 GMT -5
Week 13: 1,891 posts in 296 topics from 23 members.
Another pretty strong week for us. But lots of folks are no longer with us: David R., Mike, Josh, Aubrey, Adam, and Tina, for instance.
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Post by rickus on Jul 12, 2005 14:04:36 GMT -5
Jeff,
Do you have some knowledge that these people are not going to return to the board. Or is this a simple comment on their recent absence. Well for some of them it's a recent absence. I do think maybe some have been run off. That makes me sad to say.
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Post by Jeff on Jul 12, 2005 15:57:39 GMT -5
I have no special knowledge of anyone's absence. I hope that we haven’t run anyone away, but if we have here are my thoughts on it:
Most of us use our confrontational exchanges on this board in our daily lives. I do not like to argue, and I don’t think many of us really enjoy a verbal battlefield. We are friends. We cherish each other…mostly. But our disputes help me to be a better person, because I regularly modify my opinions in the light of your good arguments. Even opinions that I hold most deeply—my views on God, for instance—I attempt to expose to your criticism. I do not do this because I think my views on God are especially important. I do so in the hope that you will challenge me and perhaps teach me something new. And I am almost never disappointed by your collective wisdom.
‘Believe’ is a strong word. Otherwise good people do many bad things because of their silly and harmful beliefs. The paradox of dogma is that it so often leads to hardness of heart and moral error—which of course it was explicitly framed to avoid. (Jesus was keenly aware of this fact, which is reason 538 for thinking that literalists have gotten things seriously turned around.) This paradox is amplified in a county that encourages people to think for themselves. Not only is dogma more easily accepted but it is harder to dislodge because counterarguments appear as a threat to one’s individuality—which is really another kind of dogma, but that is a story for another day.
Thinking for yourself isn’t a good thing unless you are prepared to actually think. There is no intellectual or moral virtue in unquestioned opinion. And whoever first preached that it could save your soul has accomplished perhaps more evil than any other human being in history. Thinking for ourselves can never be an excuse for the effects of naively accepted dogma. Our opinions influence our actions. Our opinions can even shape our desires. Certainly there is more to being a good person than having the right sorts of views, but clearly our views have some bearing on our goodness. If you hold a silly opinion that is important to you personally but hurts many other people due to your behavior, say your voting habits, then you are guilty of a moral error. If you know someone who does this and you say nothing, then you are guilty of something, too.
That is my opinion. If I am wrong, feel free to tell me how. I promise that I will change my mind if your reasons are more convincing than mine, even if it requires a fair amount of personal re-evaluation.
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Post by rickus on Jul 12, 2005 17:20:55 GMT -5
I think in pictures. It's not a very useful way to think but it's currently all I have.
Anyway I've very often thought of a persons beliefs as a tall building. We each have our own building that we live on the top flour of. And each of our buildings are constructed differently; some on a foundation of God, others science, and so on. On occasion tornadoes of "discussion" come by and weaken our buildings. I've watched many foundations being chipped away, and helped do it too.
And we are thinking: "Oh no! This is going to cause my beautifully constructed home to come crashing down." No one wants to have to start over. Laying new bricks of belief and thought, requires so much effort. And not every one wants to do it. So they pack up they're buildings and move to where those pesky tornadoes won't bother them.
It's now past time for me to go home. I don't know where I was going with this, and now that I read over it, it sounds very demeaning. It wasn't meant to be. I guess all I was wanting to point out is that not everyone has a strong foundation, and it's scary out here sometimes.
Forgive me. rickus
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