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Before us, there was this land - a curvaceous and luscious body, alive and laughing, clothed in a few silky clouds, circling languidly though night and day, night and day, night and day...

age: 29 (Sep 20, 1982)

MEMBER SINCE: January 2006

fantasy: a world that will be totally different once W. gets the hell outta here

most humbling moment: was spent holding a stranger's hand

stats: ubiquitous

i lost my virginity: and then killed God

sign: my bumber sticker: Daddy, what were trees like?

Tuesday

OCTOBER 17, 2006 @ 10:32 AM | 21 COMMENTS

" I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us, and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star. " - Jean Giraudoux (Love Letters to the Universe)

We used a version of this line in our ceremony to testify that we there were no doubts in our hearts, and that the words we were about to say were meant for the universe (not god) to hear. Shouldn't that always be the case? Kind of like the "beating of a butterfly wing in California creates a typhoon in Japan" effect, every action and every sound we make continues on - it does not end with us. I know space is a vaccuum, but it's still connected to our atmosphere. It's still connected to us. And, because we are made of stardust and stones, our lives are intricately/intrinsically bound to the world around us. We are not islands. We should take much less for granted.

(NGC 6302, in the Scorpius constellation)

My SG persona will vanish on Saturday, and it will be as though I never existed in your lives. You will have never existed in mine. That may be one of the most fascinating things about the internet age - the mutability of just about everything. Cancel your credit card, disconnect a few wires, hell even turn off the screen, and entire worlds disappear! For those of you staying on, I hope you continue to be interesting and intelligent figures here, but may you all live life completely. Thanks for the fun!

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Silveronthetree

I'm lost

June 2004

OCT 17, 2006 10:43 AM

I disagree

We will be in each others thoughts from time to time, and our very thoughts, not just words, echo to the remotest star.

No `experience` is lost, and you may take something away with you, and I may take something away with me.

I`d never heard of that treasure hunting you did before. I hadn`t heard some of the quotes you`d mentioned. I know you shared ideas about art with others, and I know you are wonderful, if a bit closed in some ways(you know your own mind i mean), and knowing you for a time will have altered me, weather you think so or not.

Have a great life, and if you ever come back this way, be sure to look me up.

Peace

$fracturedguy$

fracturedguy

Seattle, WA

November 2002

OCT 17, 2006 02:14 PM

What a beautiful sentiment. Thank you.

CorpHo

Brooklyn, NY

May 2006

OCT 17, 2006 08:59 PM

I'm so sorry to hear you're not feeling well. I see you still have your faculties of eloquence and poignancy about you, though. I will miss your too-infrequent gems of contemplation and wonder. And the best of luck in your marriage.

SurlyMike

I'm lost

December 2004

OCT 17, 2006 09:21 PM

My SG persona will vanish on Saturday, and it will be as though I never existed in your lives. You will have never existed in mine. That may be one of the most fascinating things about the internet age - the mutability of just about everything.

Well, I guess that's true if you choose for it to be. We really do exist in real life, you know.

Silveronthetree

I'm lost

June 2004

OCT 18, 2006 01:11 AM

Hugs mate

afterbirth

Johnson, VT

January 2003

OCT 18, 2006 05:12 PM

Well that's the funny thing.
We ARE here.
We connect through those few wires and screen.
We connect as much as some people connect with others who are there with them physically.

We should take much less for granted.

Yeah, like your friends (yes, some of us are real friends) on SG!
You can go, that's fine, but your "SG persona" does not disappear - it'll still be here - on my pages, SurlyMike's, Corpho's, Silvery's - hell, even that asshole s_Eldorado!
And we'll remember you and miss you.
And wonder what you would think of this or that, or what's going on in your life.
And wish that you'd stayed.
You sure seemed like a real person to me.
You can always come back and pick up where you left off.

And you BETTER come visit us!!!!!
Maybe Corpho and SurlyMike will come.

Y

United Kingdom

July 2005

OCT 19, 2006 07:41 AM

Yeah, my post and yours are sort of on the same wavelength. I think of what you describe up there as 'world karma'.

I lost my net connection for about four days once, several months ago, over a weekend. It was distressing to realise I was out-of-touch with the online friends I'd made, none of whom had my address or phone number. But it made me realise how unreal they all were, and how unreal I must be to them. Without the net, they didn't exist. I felt like they were just imaginary friends or something, and I mostly still do, with the exception of those I've written to and received letters and things from in real life, and the four I've actually met. So I know exactly what you mean. Online friendships, for me, are more like simulations of friendships, but friendships between one person's inner world and another's. You and I are far from being real friends; but in the absence of realness our communications are raised to a higher level, I think, a more objective, refined level.

I don't think I'll forget you, because I never knew you, but knowing you in this purely mental, online way has had very definite effects on me. I hope you keep away from online 'life' as much as you can, personally, and I hope to be able to do the same eventually.

Before you go - tell me about what you've said there was your most humbling moment. I've been dying to ask for ages.