You're an update machine!
Compy keeping you warm in Winter? Too much time over the break?

Seasonal Greetings!

I'm glad to be back in touch with some people, who though distant in physicality, I find to be very close to my heart.

A world without a past can seem scary, but I guess that just depends on what sense you are talking about. If you mean in the Orwellian sense (who controls the past controls the future, and who controls the present controls the past) then yes, it is sort of scary.

In a historical sense, none of us REALLY know a goddamn thing though. All we have is a generally agreed upon consensus established by people who were never really there, have no first-hand experience of the events they chronicle, and have nobly tried their best to put together an idea of what might have happened based upon the best sense they could make of what they had to work with.

In a psychological sense, I'm not so sure about scariness either, but I have to tell you that dragging these chains around is starting to get a little tiresome for me, and I wish I would have listened better to Jacob Marley. There are some days when I wish I could wake up and just forget everything that has happened, everything that I've done, and feel no compulsion whatsoever to go back and dig all of it up. It's terrible, but it helps me sympathize a lot more with Joe Pantoliano's character in The Matrix. Again, as The Twilight Zone has taught me, I realize that it would probably not be all it is cracked up to be, but sometimes all I want is to be able to let go and forget, and try to be a fresh person in the ever blossoming present moment. So I guess it all bears much consideration, or no consideration at all, seeing as how whether it would be good or bad matters not. It is entirely unlikely to ever happen to any of us, and thus I think we would better serve ourselves by trying to deal with what we have before us and not what-ifs and could-bes.

and then you were gone, and now yer back