We live to fight another year.

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wesw
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Re: We live to fight another year.

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if anyone has a P.O. box or something I ll send in my share and ask that you forward it to gob, thru pay pal or whatever newfangled method you youngsters use these days....

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Gob
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This is an email receipt for the paypal.com payment you just made through
https://panel.dreamhost.com/billing/

Your PayPal Account:
Time: 2015-03-22 15:40:48
Transaction ID: 135235443
Amount: $119.40 (USD)
Applied to Account #: 31961829
Not asking for donations this year.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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TPFKA@W
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Re: We live to fight another year.

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Well why the heck not? Not planning to shuter her down are you?

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What about bribes? are you still taking bribes?
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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I wish I had known this earlier. I already sent you my $119.40 like I do every year.

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TPFKA@W wrote:Well why the heck not? Not planning to shuter her down are you?

Not at all, but it seems that only the same few generous folks chip in year after year, and though this is kind of them it hardly seems fair. (Not always the heaviest users either, Tim chipped in last year FFS.)
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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I believe I contributed the first year, but have been absent for a couple of years until this past summer. When funds are needed again, I would be happy to contribute.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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One person has offered the full amount, which shows extraordinary generosity.

But they would be funding my blog and ...horror.... online music, photography and shite, so that's a no go.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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I see what you mean funding you blog and music would be considered a crime agianst humanity
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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Gob wrote:One person has offered the full amount, which shows extraordinary generosity.
It certainly shows the poster has plentiful means.

Means is not the measure of a generous heart.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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It shows both surely? I'm sure more than just one person here could, if they wished, offer to pay the whole fee.

But only one went as far as to actually offer.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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:roll:

It is a lovely gesture to offer to pay for the whole shebang. But then there are those who would like to drag that gesture in the dirt. That speaks volumes.

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Gob wrote:It shows both surely? I'm sure more than just one person here could, if they wished, offer to pay the whole fee. But only one went as far as to actually offer.
It's OK Gob... you can tell. It was me, wasn't it? So much wine and then the keyboard... irresistible combination. I just found the email. "Good no yr bog. See Ill covre tall jus lett me nosokkjwrtehpeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee " Guess my head hit 'send' when I passed out.
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Perhaps many other people here who could, if they wished, afford to pay the whole fee haven't offered to do so because they believe that a community should share the burden of the costs. That doesn't make them any less generous of spirit. Perhaps they'd rather donate more to true charitable endeavors that benefit the poor, the environment, etc.

Again, offering to pay the whole bill isn't evidence of having a greater generous spirit than anybody else who posts here. One could say that offering to pay the whole bill is insulting to others who might wish that this place remain as true as possible to the founding creed, that nobody would 'own' Plan B or be such a loud and forceful voice that others feel silenced.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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One could say that offering to pay the whole bill is insulting to others who might wish that this place remain as true as possible to the founding creed, that nobody would 'own' Plan B or be such a loud and forceful voice that others feel silenced.
I just wrote in another thread that some people will always find ways to be offended...

Is it possible that maybe someone here is trying to show us how he/she appreciates all of us?

I doubt it. You're probably right. It's someone attempting a hostile takeover...

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That's not what I meant, Joe, and I'm pretty sure you know that.

I think it's insulting to the rest of us to insinuate that we aren't so generous. I could afford to pay the whole bill here, but I think there are plenty of folks here who can afford to chip in to pay it, and it should be a shared expense because it's a community.

I also don't think that just because the same few people chip in every year means others are less generous of spirit. There are people who post here whose financial means are far more limited than others.

I think the whole commentary on generosity of spirit was misplaced.

Anyway, finis.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan

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I HAVE paid the whole whack, what does that make me?
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It makes you a control freak!

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Update;

The person who made the original offer, has now made a surprise and substantial donation via pay-pal, and has effective closed the need for further donations.

This gives him/her no increased influence or entitlements, apart from free access to download any of my music.

And if s/he thinks s/he is getting any more nude photos of me, s/he can think again.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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Are you saying that the anonymous not-so-generous insulting donor is a person who studies unnatural life formations?

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