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PF appreciation thread

kkiiji
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Posted 11/08/08 - 12:50 PM: Subject: PF appreciation thread	#1
PF literately changed my life, so here I am starting a thread to thank you all! Thank you all for years of awesome discussions and life changing ideas! Most of all thank you Paul for making this forum possible! Yay! I ask of you, PF members, where would your life be without PF? I would probably be in some garbage dump somewhere eating rotten banana peels. At the very least I'd be still just a dumb kid who thinks he knows everything. Thank you PF for showing me I'm a dumb kid that doesn't really know anything! Oh and let's not forget, PF upgraded my internet grammar from village idiot to crazy ranting man, thank you PF!
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says "But Doctor... I am Pagliacci." Good joke, everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum... Curtains.

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Posted 11/08/08 - 03:20 PM:	#2
PF literately changed my life, so here I am starting a thread to thank you all! It did not.
Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die. -W.H. Auden

kkiiji
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Posted 11/08/08 - 03:23 PM:	#3
It so totally did. If you define a person's life as the concepts, ideas, and predispositions he possesses!
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says "But Doctor... I am Pagliacci." Good joke, everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum... Curtains.

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Posted 11/08/08 - 05:40 PM:	#4
While I could not nor would not say in all truthfulness that this forum has changed my life, I would most certainly have to assert that it has made a difference to it. I have not been around for all that long a time but since I arrived I have felt at home in an environment that is totally different from any other in which I have found myself. So three cheers for P.F. and Paul.
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ying
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Posted 11/08/08 - 05:46 PM:	#5
Well, it never really changed my life or anything, but it's nice to have a place on the net where you know the regulars and they know you.
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kkiiji
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Posted 11/08/08 - 07:34 PM:	#6
"Joined: Oct 01, 2007 " Wait, I just realized that I've only been here for a year. It felt more like 5 years for some reason. Perhaps that signifies how much PF has changed my life?
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says "But Doctor... I am Pagliacci." Good joke, everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum... Curtains.

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Posted 11/08/08 - 10:59 PM:	#7
Maybe. I do enjoy the particular blend that is found here.
"...There was a writer who asked why it was that when we find positive experiences we say that only the physical facts are real, but in negative experiences we believe that reality is subjective. He made an example of those who say that in birth only the pain is real, the joy a subjective point of view, but that in death it is the emotional loss that is the reality." - Tony Ballantyne, Recursion. _____________________________________________ Truth is want. - The internal state of matters. Truth is Need. - The external state of affairs.

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Posted 11/09/08 - 01:24 PM:	#8
It sure beats group think.
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Posted 11/09/08 - 01:42 PM:	#9
Yeah where would I be without PF, that is a realy good question kkiiji . Sometimes I consider myself to be here. Edited by Tobias on 11/09/08 - 02:00 PM
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Posted 11/28/08 - 04:24 AM:	#10
Posting and reading these threads on here (while reading a few books) meant that I could get through an undergraduate degree without doing any work, pretty much. I learnt far, far more from debating on here than from any lecture I was given.
Dos moi pou sto kai kino taen gaen. ~ Archimedes

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