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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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It is, to some, a lamp of hope. To others a light showing rocks to avoid. To others is it different. But it doesn't matter what it's called as long as it's used.
To the young man in question it has brought hope and friends. But it is only what we make it. For the place itself is unreal and unspecial.
If we have to have a discussion about the virtues or otherwise of this place, please may we keep it 100% clear of the thread for Sammy? That was more than a hint and request, by the way.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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Well, I love being ordered to the outer side of the wall.
Nothing changes does it?
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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You know, you can cause an argument where none exists. It's pretty simple. A thread is started about something pretty serious and also delicate, and I have asked you quiet simply to remove the questions about the title from that thread and to place them soemwhere else. This is simple, straightforward and just plain common sense.
So, instead of saying to yourself "You know, just for once he's right" you decide that you have been somehow marginalised. You haven't. You've been asked to do something. Not something arduous, but just "something".
So, if you see fit, you can extend this into a long thread detracting from the thread for Sammy. Or you can look again and say "You know, just for once he's right".
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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Once again the question has not been answered.
The thread you refer to begins "To those AT the lighthouse" and refers to a place.
I am not stupid and I know fully well the symbolism of a lighthouse as well as its real time function.
You ordered the thread in which you refer to contain only thoughts about someone I virtually nothing about. Therefore it is totally nondescript.
I just wanted an answer. Plain and simple.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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saben
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Registered: May 2003
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D'Artagnon means this cyber place. There is your plain and simple answer. He has used the term to refer to "A Place of Safety" publically before; that is what he symbolically sees it as. Question Answered.
Look at this tree. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time [...] No matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Master Oogway
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
Messages: 4729
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It's good to see that someone can provide a direct answer to a direct question without all the cryptic jibberish.
Thanks...
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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There's nothing cryptic here. Someone referred to this virtual place as a lighthouse. On the internet that is as meaningful as referring to me as a person. To many people it has a physical presence because they imbue it with physical characteristics. Others find this not to be the case.
So I explained it as best I could with the time I had to explain it. Nothing cryptic. "If we have to have a discussion about the virtues or otherwise of this place......". Note the word "this", meaning "here", wherever "here" actually is.
It looked a pretty clear thread to me. It still looks one. It's about a boy with cancer who needs a bone marrow transplant and is going to get one on Thursday. I don't suppose many people who posted actually know him. They are simply doing something quite small to do and with simpleness of spirit. They are wishing him well. Not a hard thing to do, even for a boy you don't know.
[Updated on: Mon, 19 July 2004 15:30]
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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Well actually, it was quite cryptic.
If you had intended from the begining to "explain it as best as you could with as little time" then you just would have said.... "APOS is this place"
Which you never did. You refered to a place. Someplace, somewhere.
I never disputed the veracity of the thread as a thread. I just asked about what place the originator of the thread was talking about....
A simple question.... Requiring a simple answer....
As for people I don't know... there are a great many of them...
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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