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It's been quite a while since I've checked in here. I'm guessing 4 years since my last post and maybe 5 since I posted regularly. Lots has happened since then. I see a couple familiar names, timmy of course, Mark, and timmy USA. I even noticed that a thread initiated by grasshopper has been resurrected and I saw Warren's name there although it is a few years old. So to all of my friends old and new "HELLO!"
The last time I posted I was about to embark on my new career as a chef. Now I'm planning to return to my old career in psychology. It's not that I didn't love being a chef, I most certainly do. It's that I can't seem to make any money at it and with the economy the way it is, good chef jobs are nearly impossible to find. Not to worry, though. I loved my old career too and in fact my current job is managing the kitchen at a drug rehab so I do a LOT of counseling anyways.
I'm in the process of enrolling in a PhD program and want to get into research, most particularly researching the differences in learning ability and teaching methodologies as they pertain to gender. I have a question to ask everybody, but that will be a new thread. This one is just to say hello.
Think good thoughts,
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timmy
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Are you going to write any more stories now you are back?
btw, it's a different "Mark"
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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Well then Hello "new" Mark and Hello Nick and timmy. I guess that leaves almost no one left that I used to know. I'll just have to make some new friends.
As for writing, I have started several new stories over the past few years (including a sequel to Lion's Den), but always seem to get bored with them or don't like the direction they are going so I stop well before completing them. When I left I was working on one that has to do with my question in the other thread. I hated the story so I quit but recently I began it anew. I have outlined several chapters and have written a couple. So far I like what I have done but I'm not so sure you'll want to post it on your site. It does contain a bit of gay romance, but that's not the central theme. It is set in a futuristic feminist society where it is possible to reproduce without the male. In fact all males are sterilized when they begin producing sperm and sperm is only used in the production of more males, never females. Their numbers are strictly controlled. Boys are raised on "farms" until puberty and then are sold as pets. They are educated only to about the fourth grade level and are used primarily for the purpose of sexually pleasuring their mitresses. They earn their keep as domnestic servants. The story is told from the point of view of one "puppyboy" who is owned by his mother and half sister. He falls in love with the "puppy" next door who is owned by his sister's best friend. Discipline can be harsh and in today's society would be considered abusive. The beginning of the story is a bit graphic with the description of the discipline and the "bonding" ceremony, but I try to move away from such things as the story progresses. Religion is also a central theme in the story. A feminist church and Goddess religion use "scientific" proof that the soul resides only in the X chromosome to justify the difference in status between males and females and even to argue that the male should be eliminated from the species Because his Y chromosome is the equivalent of orginal sin and he contains only half a soul because he only has one X, therefore his soul is not eternal. In later chapters the story takes on a sort of DaVinci Code theme with secret societies using the boys to reveal the church's hidden secrets.
I have no idea whether I'll ever finish this, but I'm about a third of the way to the point where the DaVinci Code stuff begins and could end the story without getting into all that. I will send it to you if I get that far, but it could be several months.
Think good thoughts,
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Hi e
I remember you being very helpful to me on my first-ever thread, very shortly before you stopped posting. Welcome back!
NW
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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Hello e.
I didn't know you before so I read some of your previous posts. I completely agreed with the advice you offered to NW. I'm glad to see someone with your insight and compassion return to the board. Good luck with your PHD.
NW, I hope you are feeling better about things now. I have often read your posts and thought you a sensitive and caring person.
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I'd like to go back a see what it was I said. How do I do that?
Think good thoughts,
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The search (menu bar above) here isn't very good when going back more than a year or 18 months: I usually try to remember a specific word used by a specific poster, which helps.
The thread I referred to can be got to at http://forum.iomfats.org/w-agora/index.php?bn=forumiomfatsorg_placeofsafety&key=1107478171&pattern=appropriate&action=view for the start of it.
cheers
NW
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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timmy
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That was quite a turning point, wasn't it?
I know you spoke to W, or I seem to remember that you did. I just can;t recall the outcome
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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Hallo, e, I'm a recent arrival here but I've been and looked at some of your posts from 2004 and 2005.
I'm glad to see you here and hope to join in any commotion when you set some cats among the pigeons!
Love,
Anthony
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Hello, e. Delighted to meet you. More so because the concept of your story is absolutely intriguing. I do hope you continue on with it. If the telling is half as exciting as the concept, it's publishing material. And wouldn't it feel strange to receive monetary rewards from the effort - lol. I'll be selfish though and hope that when you are ready to provide it for mass consumption that it will be right here in Timmy's house. (I'm too damn cheap to buy books) ;-D
Youth crisis hot-line 866-488-7386, 24 hr (U.S.A.)
There are people who want to help you cope with being you.
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timmy wrote:
> That was quite a turning point, wasn't it?
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> I know you spoke to W, or I seem to remember that you did. I just can;t recall the outcome
I seem to have had four or five years of having to make serous adjustments and accommodations with my past - becoming disabled and having to give up my workaholic habits (indeed, for nearly three years, any kind of work) was the thing that gave me the impetus and opportunity to do so. Hopefully, having met up with my father again after nearly 30 years last August was the last of these items! This place has been a great help to me through some rather difficult patches ...
As regards W., yup, he did contact me by e-mail a couple of years ago with a view to meeting up - he'd found me through friendsreunited, and I posted about that. After quite lot of soul-searching, I decided that it would do no good to see him again, so didn't. But I did establish that he is now long-term partnered to an adult male, and has given up the choir activities that put him in constant contact with young boys ... it sounds to me as though, rather belatedly, he's grown up (which is good to know). Incidentally, he inherited his mothers house, and still lives there ... though I suspect he's moved from the rather cramped bedroom in which I lost my virginity!
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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I'm glad he appears to be settled, and has removed the temptations of nubile and pubescent choirboys. I sense that he still matters to you to an extent, but not in an important way any more.
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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Well, NW, on the whole I think that is rather good news. I hope you feel it is too.
Love,
Anthony
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I do remember you now and am glad you found my posts helpful. I think they may have been some of the best posts I made during my time on the board.
Think good thoughts,
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It's good to see that some of you know me even if I don't know you. If you want to know me better, read my story 'Into the Lion's Den.' Although it's fictional, some of the events are based on real life occurances and most of the characters represent me in one way or another. I think that's why I was able to finish it when I've been largely unable to finish anything else.
As for my current story, it's encouraging that at least one person wants me to write it. Part of the reason I mentioned it is that now that I admit to writing it, I'm kind of committed to finishing.
Think good thoughts,
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And good to learn that you are well.
I do miss our rather infrequent discussions on the merits of baseball.
My "private" e-Mail address remains unchanged. I would so love to hear from you, PLEASE.
Warren C. E. Austin
"... comme recherché qu'un délice callipygian"
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I no longer have your email addy. I lost most of those type things in a hard drive crash a while back. My address book was something I didn't have backed up. But you can find me here or at e@iomfats.org. Yes, timmy left my email intact so I still have the account. I only had to strain my brain to remeber the password. And just in time. Baseball season will be starting soon!
Think good thoughts and PLAYY Balllll! ;-D ;-D ;-D
e
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