A Brave New Year
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Shaper
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written Saturday, December 31 2005 21:23
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Happy New Year to each of you, brought here disparately together by the unlikely and relatively trivial commonality of a love of fantasy role play games, at least the Spiderweb variety if nothing further. I played Ultima IV a long time ago, and Diablo I not so long ago. Apart from that, I considered fantasy role play games the domain of the geekish set. How humbling to be so seduced by the offerings of the Spiderweb. But enough about me. Two hours to go here till 2006. I like even numbered years better than odd numbered years. Is that wrong? Perhaps others feel contrarily. I still find it remarkable I lived to see the transition of millennia in my lifetime. That is a rare privilege, yet entirely insignificant on another level, considering the arbitration of numbers. And the 2000's are so entirely different from what I imagined they would be in my youngest years, looking forward to them. Perhaps, unless one thinks mystically in pondering sayings from, say, the Bible, which suggest, "A day with the Lord is as a thousand years" (is He THAT boring? ;) ) and if the history of humankind is 4000 years B.C. (as the Catholics chart it) and roughly 2000 years since Christ, then we have entered the seventh day of God's rest, which should mean we're all to be entering the seventh day of fullness and completing and perfecting of things, and a day of rest after much toil. Or it could just be another day in a post-industrial age of complex human challenges. Whichever way, here we are now, or shortly, in 2006, and we still aren't flying around in personal spaceships (oh thank God—we haven't learned to navigate two dimensions reliably yet, most of us) or using laser guns in combat. We are in this century facing the international threat of terrorism, ecological conundrums (are we tired of pooping in our own nests yet or what?) and scientific challenges for ethics (cloning?) and the disintegration of mega-nations into ethnic nation states in this century (Texas becomes its own nation in twenty years—you'll see). These are the momentary thoughts of this one peson facing a new year in a still pretty new millennium in the wonderful, terrifying, fascinating history of humankind. Of which you each partake, like it or not. I think it's a pretty cool privilege, personally. Love. Joy. Peace. Doug [ Saturday, December 31, 2005 21:30: Message edited by: Synergy ] -------------------- A4 Items List A4 Singleton G4 Items List G4 Forging List G4 Insidious Infiltrator NR Items List Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Saturday, December 31 2005 21:33
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Happy New Year everyone! Now I will drift back into cyberspace for another year of lurking... -------------------- You acquire an item: Radio Free Foil Posts: 1169 | Registered: Monday, September 23 2002 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, December 31 2005 21:37
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Happy New Year, everyone! Another year in a long line of years. Hopefully, this one will be just as interesting. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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Councilor
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written Saturday, December 31 2005 22:18
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This year is already better than last year. Last year I awoke at midnight with a headache because my neighbors were shooting off fireworks. I couldn't go back to sleep until one because of the light, sound, and the throbbing pain. This year, I'm watching a great (if thoroughly stupid) movie with popcorn and soda. With that, Dikiyoba wishes everyone a happy New Year and all other such great stuff. Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Saturday, December 31 2005 22:19
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And what great, thoroughly stupid movie would that be? P.S. Andraste: that balloon needs some helium! It's more of a pendulum at present. [ Saturday, December 31, 2005 22:21: Message edited by: Synergy ] -------------------- A4 Items List A4 Singleton G4 Items List G4 Forging List G4 Insidious Infiltrator NR Items List Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Saturday, December 31 2005 23:14
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I suppose I should say happy new year even though I have long ago celebrated that. It was a rather boring turn into the new year for me but I hope that everyone else has a good one. Posts: 776 | Registered: Friday, July 4 2003 07:00 |
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The Establishment
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written Saturday, December 31 2005 23:19
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I will repeat this from an edited topic: Amazing how our base 10 number system causes us to put relevance on years like 2000. If we were in a base 8 system, our perspective on such matters would be different. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Master
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written Sunday, January 1 2006 00:38
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Me, my family, my dead cat, the almighty chicken gods and the child I saw falling of his bike just now, wish you all happy christmas and a merry new year! Or something like that... This year will hopefully be nice, as in six months I'll get a new computer. [ Sunday, January 01, 2006 00:39: Message edited by: Thralni, chicken god prophet ] -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 | Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Sunday, January 1 2006 00:45
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Happy New Year, everyone! On 7 january I will be 16! -------------------- Download Geneforge 4: Rebellion You have 6 posts. Nobody cares what you think. - Thuryl Wikipedia may be your friend, but UBB is not. - Dikiyoba Posts: 1310 | Registered: Tuesday, December 20 2005 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Sunday, January 1 2006 03:52
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Happy New Year All! ... hmm, that's pretty much it. -------------------- "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." Posts: 469 | Registered: Thursday, May 1 2003 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Sunday, January 1 2006 06:32
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*raises a glass and joins in the cheer* Wishing you all a Happy New Year! (Last night I completely forgot I fear. Guess I really better get it into gear.) All right, OK, go ahead and jeer. I'll wait till your done laughing to bend your ear, But celebrating this day has never been that dear. I'd rather be in bed with my pillow near. Sure I miss wild parties, or so I hear, And kisses at midnight and pats on the rear. Yet I've never felt any of it worth shedding a tear. So I'll say Good Tidings anyway to you my peer. Here's hoping that noone has drunk too much beer. [ Sunday, January 01, 2006 06:33: Message edited by: Gizmo ] -------------------- Forever Always on Past the End TrueSite for Blades - Blades Walkthroughs Pixle Profusion - BoE Graphics Archive Posts: 563 | Registered: Tuesday, July 27 2004 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Sunday, January 1 2006 07:07
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Wheeeee! We set the grass on fire with our fireworks, but no one noticed. Happy New Year everybody! Except for you Gizmo. I'll drink as much as I want to. -------------------- And everybody say....Yatta! Posts: 1287 | Registered: Thursday, August 14 2003 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Sunday, January 1 2006 08:08
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Happy New Year, and all that stuff. I spent it waiting for a phone call that never arrived. And watching Big Ben strike. It was pretty. That is all. -------------------- And when you want to Live How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to know? Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Sunday, January 1 2006 08:28
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Happy new year everybody, good luck with everything that'll happen this new year, have a good one =) Peace out -------------------- There are 400 words in the dictionary that begin with "self" and only 8 that begin with "fellow". When in doubt. . . mumble. Posts: 150 | Registered: Saturday, August 20 2005 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Sunday, January 1 2006 11:45
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quote:Drinking 'too much' would be an amount in which in your inebriated state you did something you regret once you're sober. In other words 'Hope nobody did anything stupid while drunk' not 'Hope nobody drinks'. -------------------- "Even the worst Terror from Hell can be transformed to a testimony from Heaven!" - Rev. David Wood 6\23\05 "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." - John Wesley Posts: 1001 | Registered: Tuesday, August 19 2003 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Sunday, January 1 2006 11:49
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Bah, I'm underage for drinking anyway. -------------------- And everybody say....Yatta! Posts: 1287 | Registered: Thursday, August 14 2003 07:00 |