my i, come in, grab hold / just this once

[mercury_viae]

I've been initiated

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[infamous_kdb]

Your happy post makes me happy. Rock on, friend.

You dork.

[pencilghost]

I never wanted any of us to pay dues in to anything, silly. We - you, I, the TD gang, others - were all different, but sometimes, for a while, we had something in common. It's like going to a 3D film: okay, so it looks stupid to everyone else that the viewers are wearing uniform, funny-looking cardboard specs with different-coloured lenses, but the specs allow the viewers to see something together that they want to see - and that the people without the specs can't make sense of. The film ends, the moment passes, but - I guess my whole point with the community thing was hey, so the specs look funny, so what, enjoy it. It's not every day that differently-experienced people get to have a Moment together. And you never know, maybe the film will really move them and they'll decide to - I don't know - support a political candidate together, or pitch in to save the environment together, or decide to help each other with the infinitely messy business of living for a while. And maybe they'll get something out of that, something that makes them

that's just it. that's my point exactly. how do the machine's know what tasty-wheat tastes like?

[mercury_viae]

i know you didn't want any of us to pay dues. what i'm saying is that that's what it seemed like at the time. i would go on td, and i was getting my experience out of it. i saw it as something that brought me individually closer to other individuals. creating a community out of td was like lessening something i'd made for myself in my own relationships, like diffusing it or something.

if i'm honest, i'll say that i still far prefer one-on-one relationships. the point is that my appreciation of them no longer disallows community-based relationships from having any impact. before, i was holding an orange in my hand and pointing at the apple of td-community and saying, 'why aren't you as tasty as this orange?' and now i'm not.

Re: that's just it. that's my point exactly. how do the machine's know what tasty-wheat tastes like?

[pencilghost]

Yeah, I understand that, I still prefer personal conversations myself. And TD was good for that, too, perhaps more so than as a community, but ultimately I wanted the community to work out as well, at least in part to introduce individuals to each other and give them a space to talk. So yeah, I like apples, I'll share mine with you if you want, and oranges are pretty awesome too.

I miss you, incidentally.