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gurdonark"I am absolutely uncomfortable with confinement of any kind, social, domestic, cultural, mental, spiritual or physical. In this sense I could be seen as an unreliable companion, a fickle, changeable friend. I'm not. Loyalty is, I hope and pray, one of the qualities I offer to my real friends. It's just that the constant suffering that life presents us with, the inexhaustible variety of objects hurled in our path, makes me more and more determined not to submit to the inevitability of orthodoxy, the dull, mindless pressure to join the mob. I choose to resist the bulling of fate, even if I'm bound to be beaten to a pulp by the mediocrity that encroaches on our daily existence and all the terrible and awesome forces that mortality hurls at us through out our muddled lives".--Bill Nelson
Let's celebrate the sheer absurdity of friendship, and of the ways in which we relate on-line. Let's not point out that "friends list" and "friend" are not synonyms. Let's analyze less, therapize none at all, and regale ourselves with our private stories, for mass consumption. Let's poll, let's roll, and let's find our inner soul--and then retail it, for free, on-line:
[Poll #142409]
Let's celebrate the sheer absurdity of friendship, and of the ways in which we relate on-line. Let's not point out that "friends list" and "friend" are not synonyms. Let's analyze less, therapize none at all, and regale ourselves with our private stories, for mass consumption. Let's poll, let's roll, and let's find our inner soul--and then retail it, for free, on-line:
[Poll #142409]
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Date: 2003-06-05 06:21 pm (UTC)Blehhh.
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Date: 2003-06-06 05:26 am (UTC)But I promise not to write a self-help book until next week.
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Date: 2003-06-06 05:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-05 07:18 pm (UTC)10 20 30 40....100"
I dont' quite get this one? You mean how many people on the friends list or % compared to 'real life' friends?
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Date: 2003-06-06 05:23 am (UTC)And BTW, I would like my sheep farm to be in Scotland, not New Zealand!
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Date: 2003-06-06 05:29 am (UTC)The poll question got rewritten 3 times, and still comes out wrong. Thank goodness it's not graded!
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Date: 2003-06-06 05:34 am (UTC)yes, i agree with the proximity issue. blechtrommel says that denton (site of his upcoming stint at grad school) is not too far from dallas.
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Date: 2003-06-06 05:37 am (UTC)Denton is not 30 miles from me. A great school for jazz music, of all things. Small town USA, just forty minutes from the city. Great fishing nearby, too, but
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Date: 2003-06-06 05:54 am (UTC)the southwest.
in re: initials, one would have to be more specific! (see reader's guide to Goatland.) at first i thought you meant anagram, not acronym, which would be dogma. blechtrommel pointed out to me that now he, Rick, and Jon are arranged to spell "JAR" in my reader's guide...Perhaps Rick could get on board with sheep-farming since it would provide him with a green card...The other European letter of the alphabet, as I have bitched about profusely, is perfectly content with lack of proximity.
Mmm. Maybe one of these days I'll write a new entry. The eternal postponement.
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Date: 2003-06-06 06:02 am (UTC)I was thinking of the "W and I" wish we could afford a place to live post or was it M? The great thing about your journal is that I have this pleasing image of you with past, present (and, who knows, future?) objects of affection. They rise, like pleasing images, in journal posts and dreams.
I was just thinking about things I would ask my LJ friends, if I met them in person, and you came to mind. But I'm worried that the answer may be in Goatland, and I've skipped the wrong paragraph. But I'm pretty predictable, and I'd mostly just ask the maudlin stuff like "you're pretty cool--why don't you hang with people who'll treat you better".
But that's my native small town boy thing going--why can't everyone just be "NAICE" to each other?
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Date: 2003-06-06 06:32 am (UTC)Being nice...You know, it's very hard to pin down these nice people for actual face-to-face interaction. I have met/seen in person the other Baltimore LJ 30-somethings only once (see our entries of around August 28). It's something that never quite takes off. It's difficult to get past one's shyness and keep asking if people want to get together when they already have friends.
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Date: 2003-06-06 08:13 am (UTC)The key challenge, to me, is balance (as in all things). If you and M lived in the Dallas area, you'd be guaranteed of one couple with whom to go to eat inexpensive ethnic dive food, as I believe that my wife would find you entirely fascinating.
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Date: 2003-06-06 08:43 am (UTC)I am glad that you understand what I mean about material things and $$.
now at the reference desk with many more gurdonark posts to read,
L
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Date: 2003-06-06 05:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-06 06:18 am (UTC)Sorry, only kidding :P I won't tell you the sand joke. I still don't understand the question in a way. But then, I am a visual artist so that means I'm dumb (another stereotype :)
ok, sitting here looking at it for a moment, now I do (understand the question that is). It took a while for the synapses to connect.
okay. Answer is none, I guess. I talked Roz into getting an lj account just recently. Before that, well, 90% of people on my lj friends list are from the 'States which is like 12,000 miles away so....... zippo. But she is a friend in 'real life' before she got an lj account and I figure you mean people you've met on lj and then met in real life. ....??
Before I was confused but now I'm not sure.
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Date: 2003-06-09 09:36 pm (UTC)