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Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

Kepler

Kepler

Cornell Big Red
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
 
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Needed context.

Note this Fletcher Memorial Home for Incurable Wasters of Breath and Time is not an apologia, but a twelve step program.
 
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Wait, isn't the statue of liberty a metaphor for arrival / not departure?

Either way, it won't be the same. I managed to stay out of politics threads for years. It's crossed my mind more than once that I might have had it right to begin with. :|
 
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geezer said:
ditto. where do I sign up for this 12-step program?
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Right here. Step one is admitting we have a problem. :)

It is an arrival, call it what you will: enlightenment, peace, exhaustion, acceptance, extrication, serenity.
 
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You know, when I quit political threads a couple of months ago, I just quit. I didn't announce it. I sure as hell didn't create a "look at me, look at me" thread.

Just saying - no one cares.
 
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I'd like to formally announce my retirement from announcing retirements.
 
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SteveF said:
this is a little silly.
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I hope so. Why is posting so addictive? Why is posting politics and trading insults (veiled or direct) such fun? How do people like Ralph post 100k times without once (AFAIK) mounting a podium -- how do some people come by that? :confused:
 
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Kepler said:
I hope so. Why is posting so addictive? Why is posting politics and trading insults (veiled or direct) such fun? How do people like Ralph post 100k times without once (AFAIK) mounting a podium -- how do some people come by that? :confused:
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I am too short to mount a podium. :D
 
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Red Cloud said:
You know, when I quit political threads a couple of months ago, I just quit. I didn't announce it. I sure as hell didn't create a "look at me, look at me" thread.

Just saying - no one cares.
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Thanks for the announcement. If you were really quiet about it you wouldn't have said anything anywhere. I guess you're just 1/2 an attention whore.
 
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Red Cloud said:
Just saying - no one cares.
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About one person quitting? Very likely (although I'd care if certain posters quit; they're fun. You're one of them -- I must admit I didn't notice you quitting).

About why posting politics is so enticing? I think a lot of people are interested in that. Every forum I've ever seen (even college hockey forums -- what could be less political on the face of it?) have political threads and they're all the same -- same perspectives, same mix of invective, preaching, holier-than-thou, honest discussion, hair pulling, leg pulling (all of which have been displayed here in 15 posts) -- but above all people getting the same fix. So why are certain people wired into that and what's different about people who simply skip over it all like an episode of Twilight?

Take away the accident of a given poster here or there, and what's left is something unusually compelling in an ocean of emotional disengagement. What makes this interesting enough to develop sincere likes and dislikes? Or to put it in a way you might like more, given that plenty of us are attention whores, what makes one stage more or less attractive? You would think that most of the action would be packed into topics relating directly to the forum subject -- that's where the highest hit rates should be. That would indicate that it isn't purely attention whoring (as much of that as there is), but that there's something in the subject itself that is catnip.
 
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