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by older mycroft

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Well, come on people! It has to be asked!!

How many of us are in the first flush of youth? Not a lot I'll bet!

Should there be a [u]LOGIN[/u] that we have to use otherwise we are designated as "EXPIRED" ?

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by w2ktechman

Let me get this right. We are supposed to login with a special logon after we 'expire'??
That is an interesting concept.. How does one login from the netherworld???

Or, do you mean that our accounts just have an expiration date if one does not login with it?

by tig2

Generally, someone hears about a peer passing and tells
the rest of us. There are many here that have closer
relationships so we find these things out.

For the most part, we share with the board when we will
need to offline for awhile. And generally, we come back
when we are able and post. That way we can reduce some
of the concern that we feel when someone goes missing.

Many of us never log out of TR. I can't recall the last time
I did. And I generally don't turn off my computer. I don't
know how having to login each time I want to look at TR
would impact my workflow, to be honest.

I keep an informal list of where folks are as I get that
information. I also watch for posting. I will be keeping an
eye out for our Texas peers and Louisiana peers in the
path of the hurricane. I know that it is still a mess down
there but am hoping for good news from them.

by michael jay

Was at the beach at that time last year,
my belated condolences to you GG.
And to his family and friends.

by charliespencer

Members register and submit electronic communications messages. In the event that selected members or a designated percentage don't log in for a designated period of time, the program "assumes" the Christian Rapture has taken place and the membership has been called to Heaven. It then sends out their final messages to those of us infidels 'Left Behind'.

by ontheropes

That's nut's, excuse me for saying so. I get it but that's just nuts. What're you going to say? "I made the cut, you didn't. Tough sh*t."

I'm not thinking I'll make it. :_|

by charliespencer

Your sister gets your final instant message saying you've been called home while you're out on the deck cooking steaks for the reunion. "Uh, Bro, I've got good news and bad news."

by Member 25348569

The idea that a belief that a select few - very few - will be transported to Heaven whilst the rest of the world's billions suffers Armageddon is somehow moral and "Christian" is just SO introverted, so up their own arses, that it makes me laugh.

Still, that's your Vice President, that is...

by charliespencer

Let's try,

"Still, that's THE Vice President",

or,

"Still, that's the US Vice President",

but he definitely isn't mine.

by thechas

Right now Mrs Palin is the Republican candidate for Vice President.

There is no certainty either way until election night in November.

Chas

by Member 25348569

But why let facts get in the way of a good point?

She seems to be going down a storm at the moment, though. More uncertainty in the polls than there used to be pre-Palin.

:D

by boxfiddler Hot topic

Adam and Eve weren't [i][b]created with[/b][/i] original sin.
Adam and Eve did the original sin.
Grrrr...

fix phraseology

by Member 25348569

and could have stopped it.

The problem, My Dear, with an omnipotent, omniscient God is that, any way you cut it, it's ALL HIS FAULT. Insha'Allah...

:)

by boxfiddler Hot topic

between knowing ahead of time, and creating. You pedants need to practice that pedantry consistently. B-)

Further, I made no comment as to fault, whether or not that God exists, whether or not I believe that particular story, etc... I simply nitpicked one of the usual things I nitpick. :D

etu

by ontheropes

Serious Bible-thumping Christians give me a rash. They tick me off too. I was damned at a very young age.

by Member 25348569

One of the many paradoxes of the Juadaeo/Christian/Islamic God (not shared by the imperfect gods of other religions) where all of the different flavours of "omni" tend to run up against one another.

Consistently inconsistent, God.

:)

etu (Edit - the unusual)

by boxfiddler Hot topic

primarily because (most of) those serious, fundamentalist, Bible thumping Christians consistently and conveniently (for them) ignore certain little tidbits that make or break the foundation of the religion.

They do a few other things that bug me, too. But that is the big one.

by ontheropes

Something to break up the monotony. Not meant to offend. I can just see me setting off a riot because I posted a 'funny' picture of Jesus. Like that's ever going to happen.

by michael jay

I find myself not offended by almost anything I see.

The original post suggested an obit section and I second that thought.

Not as a discussion but as a list of those who we have lost, and I think that that is a good idea, not only tr members but friends and family members and also those who have made a mark on our lives such as music and theater people that have left us after having left their mark on us.

I think that it would be good to have an obit page.

by boxfiddler Hot topic

Know: to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty

Create: to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes

Significant difference.

Quickie definitions stolen from dictionary.com

by ontheropes

And most of what I personally think is most relevant in there? "Do unto others the way you would have them do unto you." Simple sh*t really; treat others the way you want to be treated. Sooooo many Christians just forget all about that crap. They can bite me.

by boxfiddler Hot topic

No interminable arguing here. Specially not when I'm right. B-)

Gotta mess with someone. Only a few of you here any fun to mess with. :D

by michael jay

Date: Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:09 AM
Subject: Howard Gobioff

It is with great sadness that I write to you today. I don?t know how some of you know Howard, but your email address was in his phone. Howard passed away this afternoon at approximately 1pm after a battle with lymphoma. He was originally diagnosed in 2003 with a non-aggressive type of lymphoma and chose not to tell anyone including his family. On 1/31/2008 he was admitted to Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital with pneumonia and found that the cancer had transformed into something more aggressive. He asked me to come up on 2/8/2008. Two days later he was admitted to the ICU and I informed the rest of his family. For the last 31 days Howard put up quite a fight but eventually acquired an infection that his body was no longer able to fight.

He will be buried in Hollywood, Florida this Friday (3/14/2008) atBeth David Memorial Gardens
3201 NW 72nd Ave
Hollywood, FL 33024

this email about Howard Gobioff

But it has to be in a place that cannot be commented to or changed. We need to have this setup by the PTB

by ontheropes

There's a few things I'd like to say about some of us if we go missing.

I was thinking of something more along the lines of TRGC. I'm sure we'll get some 'sh*t on his headstone and pi$$ on his grave' comments doing it like that but in a community that can't really be helped, can it?

by michael jay

I can understand that, just emailed Tammy with that thought, perhaps it could work as just a stand alone and then the folks could comment on their own in a separate thread.

Don't know, did you miss what the email I posted said?

by ontheropes

Make it like our pet pix only with obituaries.

I'm at a loss for who Howard was or your intent. Sorry. Brains fried,

I do know that when my wifes nephew passed away there were a lot of people that sent condolences via email after they were told.

Let me grab a coffee.

Good coffee but it's not helping. :0

FWIW- (been saying that a lot lately) I just told my wife to tell y'all at TR that I've kicked the bucket if anything ever happens to me.

What were we talking about?

by michael jay

My high school folks just setup a new site that has so much information about other alumni and Howard Gobioff is just one of the people that went to my high school.

he had a large hand in the invention of google, tragically he is gone.

My point being the obits, he is one that should be included.

http://research.google.com/people/hgobioff/

Have a beer on me. Oh, and a smoke too.

by ontheropes

I smoke cigarettes, that's about it. *cough* I think that sometimes my brain is just fried, caught in neutral, or something.

I do think I'm seeing the idea of an Obit. column a lot clearer. If it's set up like the pet gallery, with Sonja or Tammy approving submissions I think it'd be a cool feature. Not that death is cool but you know what I mean. It'd make it more of a community thing.

I wonder how that's going to go over? I mean we've got TRGC, FNM and pet pix, why NOT have an obit column? Just think of how many times someone's death has impacted us just in the past year. I'm afraid it's always going to be like that too. :|

I'd like for someone (anyone) here to remember my sorry ass if anything happened to me. Even if, maybe especially if, it's in an irreverent way. Take a dump on ol' Oscar after I'm dead. Go 'head, see if I care. :)

I guess my wife might see the disparaging remarks and not understand so maybe it wouldn't be cool. Geez. Talk about something over which I'd have no control. :)

by michael jay

it would be nice to be remembered, but the one that goes has the easiest time.

All left behind are the ones that suffer.

by Member 25348569

of the population of the USA. They have real power. They are the people who believe that the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are part of a "Holy War". You have to realise that they represent a clear danger to YOU in what they represent. Global nuclear conflict would be welcomed by some of them because, after all, they will be whipped off before it starts. Check out the literature and how close some of the Rapture novels get to the top of the US book lists - children's book lists.

Santee. No "tsk, tsk" at all. We don't have them over here. Well, we have a few but they keep pretty quiet about The Rapture as they would simply attract public ridicule at best and possibly some antagonistic reaction to what is a pretty selfish belief. The whole "Rapture" culture is more alien to us than you can know.

Neil :)

by ontheropes

I need to get out of the house more often. They've got Rapture novels on the best selling lists too? Nobody ever tells me anything. I should look at the books section the next time I'm at Walmart.

I'm so sick of religion, sick at heart, I just can't allow myself to be bothered by it anymore. When a politician utters the word God I shudder a little bit.

Back when I went to church all they talked about was being 'saved'. Every Sunday. Well why not talk about living a feaking responsible, decent life or how to have fun as a saved person. No, can't do that, it always has to be hellfire and brimstone which I never really quite understood. If I'm saved from all of that why should I freaking worry about it?

I could go off but I'll save you the babbling. Too early for me.

by charliespencer

Ropes, I don't know how you've missed them. The "Left Behind" series is around a dozen thick novels that regularly makes the NYT Best Sellers list and shows up at the front of major book chains. Somebody's got the movie rights and has been working on it for years.

Don't you remember all those misguided twits who thought the world would end at the turn of the millennium, and that poorly written computer programs would play a major part in the destruction?

neil, as to, "We don't have them over here", it's a web site. How do you know where "over here" is? Maybe the site is maintained by the guy across the street from you. Just a thought...

by santeewelding

Drop the upper-case R to lower-case, trim from the end until you get, "rapt", then reacquaint yourself with the word in that careful, pedant way of yours I so admire.

Tell me then -- all of you -- that you are not carried to indiscretions of speech and action by your own rapture.

I do not exclude myself. Without rapture, lower-case, I could not begin to describe or think of myself, let alone our world.

How would You manage?

-pedantic titivation-

by Member 25348569

I was unaware that the Upper Case version existed. I must confess to (then AND now) a little pleased bogglement, rapture even, with the wonderful inventiveness of the human mind that can invent an entire culture from a couple of words. I make no apology for pointing out to Mycroft, a fellow Brit, that The Rapture runs much deeper than he could possibly have imagined.

Indiscretions? Moi?

:)

by ontheropes

Completely slipped my mind. I didn't realize that it made the best sellers list and is a series. Great.

I didn't pay too much attention to any end of the world BS around 2000. Turns out my ignoring that wasn't a problem.

I do worry about the end of the world as we know it. There are dozens if not hundreds and thousands of things that can go wrong. For a paranoid sort like me it can be a problem.

I think Bible prophecy is being used to manipulate current events by those in power because there's money in it. People prey on others fears to make a buck all of the time. I think we're seeing it on a global scale.

by ontheropes

I used to go to a strong Southern-Baptist church for years. I've heard it all. Unless you want to count the fellowship that I had with a few people there I want to say that I wasted a LOT of my time with church and religion. It saddens me to see people doing the same today.

Today I call myself a non-practicing Atheist. I saw that in a cartoon and it seems to fit.

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