soaring crane

music for my soul my xylophone in the stars. Who has the hammers?

Vexatious? That's a very strong word and I don't think it's justified here in the least. In fact, I want to question your understanding of just how severe it is, and hope you don't mean it quite literally. Regardless, we're all amateurs here, trying to do the best for the most people, and as the old saying goes, if you think you can do better, please do. Maybe some day you'll need someone to go to bat for you here and the person to do it will be one of us (or whatever the mod team is on that day). fwiw, Rex, your original post was completely understandable and reasonable, and would have got a perfectly reasonable response if someone from staff had had a chance to reply before the attacks began. Go back to it and see if you can recognize where it first took a sour, negative turn. It didn't take long. And when the honest explanation from Dawei came, it was met with more baseless accusations. In other forums, threads disappear all the time, with no discussion, no explanation. Maybe that's where we're headed -- anonymous, faceless, ruthless moderation with no voice for the members to quesiton or participate in the decision-making process. Boy, I sure hope not. Back to the original topic: The very existence of Flo's thread simply became painful to Flo. Can any of you see that? Can you appreciate the level of desperation a person has to feel in order to even start a thread like that? What's more important to you? A couple paragraphs of text that you wrote once in the internet, or a person's well-being?

I've been popping in to the chat room, but there's never anyone there ...

There and back again Full aware of the gray crane Flying to the gods

one step at a time with these big bare feet of mine they've taken me far

Hello David, and welcome to the forums! Glad you found your way to us. Your experience should prove quite valuable to many of us here; and I'm sure you'll get something out of it, too :-) Please take the time to read the two posts pinned at the top of this Welcome page and take a look at the forum terms and rules. This covers all you need to know when getting started. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. Good luck in your pursuits and best wishes to you, SC and the TTB team

Oh hey, Haaapy Neew Yeear from the neighbors:

Hello and welcome Wailnox :-)

Not really. That thread was started by someone who was/is obviously going through a very rough period. The whole purpose of that thread was to help someone in need. And now you're all given a chance to actually help that person by granting a little peace and quiet, and what do you do? You cling to some silly lines of text you posted in the internet. Many of you are clearly far more interested in projecting your views and beliefs on other people than you are in actually helping those who need it. It's shameful behavior from individuals who should, given the amount of wisdom and insight they purport to embody, act a bit more respectfully to someone who has real problems. Think about it. If your posts were so profound and valuable, you would remember what you wrote and not need to have a record of it here to remind you and the rest of us of your wisdom. And there's nothing stopping any of you from simply starting up a new conversation based loosely or strictly on what went on in Flo's thread. edit: I want to make explicitly clear that my feelings on this have absolutely nothing to do with Flo's status as a moderator. If anything, I'd probably use even sterner language if it were a regular member. And that is the final word. Thread locked.

If there's no such thing as time, how could the Rolling Stones sing about it?

The big gears image works really well for me. Time as one big, infinitely big gear. Space as another. There's one tiny point where they come together as they rotate and mesh, and that one tiny point is all that exists, has ever existed, will ever exist. But the gears keep turning and they "exist" separately, outside of preception for all infinity, except for that one miniscule place where they cojoin. That's the here and now. It's just an image that works for me.

hey this is high-caliber material. Thank you for bumping it.

Maybe there could be a speech bubble above the old man's head. "Press F5 for a big surprise"

both

Spot-on. I'm very thankful that you decided to come in from the forest :-)

Ah, I think I found it ... here you go :-)

If it changed the physical structure of sugar in a packet, get it to that Randy guy asap. (No, I don't believe it) for the record, you're referring to one of these, right?

I think time is very real. Time and space; Heaven and Earth. Two gears meshing infinitely.

The disk actually restructured sugar crystals? Is it powered electrically some way?

This will be good. Thank you for the notice!

for soon to come spark I stand and gaze and wait and ... ooops, now it's too late.

What are you talking about?

Oooooh... Finally checking in from my computer and see that the URL has actually been changed, hadn't noticed that before!

I'm all for the D, but don't unnerstand the accent above the A. It looks like a pinyin/W-G hybrid?

the chain of no chains the invisible restraints strings of chi and love